While the Perfect Circle Flying Club may be flying under most people’s radar, the group, which build and fly control line model airplanes, is keen to invite new members into the fold.

Control-line flight is a type of model airplane flight which is not controlled by remote control, but by two 60-foot steel wires. This type of model was the type of hobby aircraft many of today ...

The control line model airplane hobby has been somewhat taken over by the RC, or remote control airplane hobby, according to Connelly, but he prefers control line flying.

Randy L. RassmussenStunt planes lined up at the recent Jim Walker Memorial Spring Tune-up, a control-line model airplane competition held at Delta Park I can't tell you how many times I have been ...

Welcome to the world of control-line aircraft. Alexandra Nadein and her dad, Andrey, are here to compete in an aerial dogfight. ALEXANDRA NADEIN: It's model aircraft combat.

We consider a motorized aircraft tethered to a central anchorage point in a configuration similar to a control line model airplane. For this system, we address the problem of automatic take-off and ...

The former Air Force pilot flew B-52 bombers and C-141 Starlifter cargo planes during the Vietnam War era. He said he was first introduced to control-line model airplanes when he was 12 years old.