The Economist

Plastic planes will allow airlines to increase cabin pressure

A FELLOW Gulliver, cheery chap that he is, kicked off the new year explaining why 2017 might be even worse for business travellers than the year we have just put behind us. The reasons are largely ...
Daily Mail

‘The idea of this thing blowing up the Pentagon is a joke’: Experts dismiss threat of model planes being used as bombs

The man accused of plotting to attack the Pentagon and the US Capitol using remote-controlled planes filled with explosive would not have inflicted major damage, say experts. University graduate ...
The Atlantic

The Model Planes That Could've Attacked the Pentagon

Rezwan Ferdaus, a 26-year-old physicist, was arrested Wednesday for plotting to attack the Pentagon and Capitol using remote-controlled planes, as we reported yesterday. A look at the criminal ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Master model-plane maker's made-from-scratch miniatures showcased at HARS Aviation Museum

Steve Keddie remembers the first time he flew in an aeroplane — the moment that sparked a lifelong passion for aviation. He was a five-year-old boy travelling with his father from Tasmania to ...
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette

Pine Bluff man has lofty plans for WWII model planes

PINE BLUFF — Stacked in boxes and separated by old newspapers, plastic replicas of the fighter jets and bomber planes of World War II sit in the corner of Currin Nichol’s old home on Martin Street.