This is our first balsa wood kit, really proud and excited to announce the new Tanár, a kit for beginners but also for whoever wants to have some fun with a balsa wood rc plane like this. We have been ...

A balsa wood glider is really easy to make despite the physics involved on its flight. Make one yourself and have a ton of fun. In this video, I explain how to make it from the beginning. In this ...

Balsa wood airplanes can be simple gliders, but can also be rubber band-powered or even overhauled to correspond with remote-controlled devices.

Many readers may fondly recall building rubber-band-powered balsa wood model airplanes. While the things were kinda cool, they didn't fly for long, nor could they be remotely controlled. Such is ...

Top flying model airplane kit Viloga Flying Balsa Wood Model Aircraft What you need to know: This battery-powered flying model airplane kit is composed of top-quality plywood and balsa-wood materials.

Model airplane kits are popular with kids and adults of all ages. They depict iconic aircraft from different eras with an extremely high level of detail.

Mike Moore, a life-long pilot and retired executive from Liberty Lake built this balsa wood and paper model of a German Albatross aircraft during the pandemic.

Balsa wood has long been revered for its strength and lightweight composition, two properties that make it ideal for building model structures and airplanes.

Lots of kids wish they could build an airplane and fly away, but Dutch teenager Jesse van Kuijk has become one of the rare few to make it happen with his pedal-powered plane made out of balsa wood ...

And it makes dozens of balsa wood model planes for display ranging between $25 and $45. Remember, many early planes were similarly constructed from wood and canvas.

Remember the balsa wood gliders that used to be so popular? That’s what I’m talking about. You don’t see much of them today. Probably most kids consider them stone age technology.