| Do you enjoy the beautiful model aircrafts that are | | | | The free flight airplanes are great enjoyment and fun. |
| sold in the toy shops and on so many sites online? Of | | | | They are easy to get lost which is their main |
| course you can just go to a shop or click on a site and | | | | disadvantage. |
| buy the ones you like most. But besides the fact that | | | | RC Aircrafts. Remote control aircrafts are very cool |
| buying ready models costs you money it's just not as | | | | toys but they really require technical knowledge about |
| cool as building models yourself. | | | | electronics and similar stuff. You will not save money |
| What kind of models could you build yourself? Almost | | | | by building such models yourself - the ready RC |
| all. Here are some ideas: | | | | airplanes and helicopters are pretty cheap compared |
| Paper airplanes. Who has not build one as a kid? | | | | to the efforts to build yourself. But if you can build an |
| Building paper airplane can be as simple as getting a | | | | RC aircraft by your own hands you will really have |
| sheet of paper and making few folds. But there are | | | | something to be proud of. |
| also flying paper aircrafts with an engine and remote | | | | You may build RC aircraft much easier if you buy a kit |
| control or others which are exact scale models of | | | | or at least a package of remote control and engine. |
| existing real aircrafts. Some enthusiasts build even | | | | Static Scale Models. Sounds simple? Actually this is the |
| paper helicopter which can fly. | | | | heavy artillery of the airplane modeling. Making scale |
| The main disadvantage of the paper aircrafts is that | | | | models is hard exactly because you have to keep the |
| they easily get damaged - especially the really flying | | | | scale of the real model. This require high preciseness |
| ones. | | | | and skills to work on very small parts. |
| Free flight aircrafts. There is a category of model | | | | The static model aircrafts can be made of wood, |
| airplanes called "free flight" which means they fly | | | | mahogany, plastic or even clay. If you are scarified to |
| without any attachment to the ground or even to your | | | | do everything from scratch you can buy almost ready |
| hand. Most free flight models are simple - just like the | | | | static models which require only painting. This is a good |
| simple paper airplanes that we build as kids (they are in | | | | way to start. |
| fact free flight airplane models too). Free flight | | | | Most fans of the model aviation sooner or later want |
| helicopters are much harder to build than the airplanes | | | | to build their own models in addition to the ones they |
| for obvious reasons, but there are people who build | | | | buy and collect. You may decide to start by building |
| them - with self rotating propellers or "charged" by a | | | | yourself - there is nothing scary and it's a lot of fun. |
| rubber band mechanism. | | | | |