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"A radio-controlled aircraft (often called RC aircraft or RC plane) is a model aircraft that is controlled remotely, typically with a
hand-held transmitter and a receiver within the craft. The receiver controls the corresponding servos that move the control surfaces
based on the position of joysticks on the transmitter, which in turn move the plane.

Flying RC aircraft as a hobby has been growing worldwide with the advent of more efficient motors (both electric and miniature
internal combustion or jet engines), lighter and more powerful batteries and less expensive radio systems. A wide variety of models
and styles is available.

Scientific, government and military organizations are also utilizing RC aircraft for experiments, gathering weather readings,
aerodynamic modeling and testing, and even using them as drones or spy planes.
There are many types of radio-controlled aircraft. For beginning hobbyists, there are park flyers and trainers. For more advanced pilots
there are glow plug engine, electric powered and sailplane aircraft. For expert flyers, jets, pylon racers, helicopters, autogyros, 3D
aircraft, and other high end competition aircraft provide adequate challenge. You can also build scale models of manned aircraft.
Some models are made to look and operate like a bird instead. Other sport aircraft are designated for scale-like flying referred to
as "scale". Scale is a very demanding but rewarding aspect of the hobby.

There are various ways to construct and assemble an RC aeroplane. Various kits are available, requiring different amounts of
assembly, different costs and varying levels of skill and experience.

Some kits can be mostly foam or plastic, or may be all balsa wood. Construction consists of using formers and longerons for the
fuselage, and spars and ribs for the wings and tail surfaces. More robust designs often use solid sheets of wood to form these
structures instead, or might employ a composite wing consisting of an expanded polystyrene core covered in a protective veneer
of wood, often obechi. Such designs tend to be heavier than an equivalent sized model built using the traditional method, and
would be much more likely to be found in a power model than a glider. The lightest models are suitable for indoor flight, in a
windless environment. Some of these are made by bringing frames of balsa wood and carbon fiber up through water to pick up thin
plastic films, similar to rainbow colored oil films. The advent of "foamies," or craft injection-molded from lightweight foam and
sometimes reinforced with carbon fiber, have made indoor flight more readily accessible to hobbyists. "Crash proof" EPP
(Expanded Polypropylene) foam planes are actually even bendable and usually sustain very little or no damage in the event of an
accident, even after a nose dive. Some companies have developed similar material with different names, such as AeroCell or Elapor.

Ready to fly (or RTF) planes come as pre-assembled kits that usually only require wing attachment or other basic assembly.
Typically, everything that is needed is already in the kit. RTF planes can be up in the air in just a few minutes and have all but
eliminated assembly time (at the expense of the model's configuration options.) Among traditional hobbyist builders, RTF models
are a point of controversy, as many consider model assembly, fabrication and even design as integral to the hobby.

Almost ready to fly (or ARF or ARTF) kits are similar to RTF kits; however usually require more assembly and sometimes basic
construction. The average ARF aircraft can be built with less than 4 hours of labor, versus 20 - 50+ hours (depending on detail and
desired results) for a traditional kit aircraft. The fuselage and appendages are normally already constructed. The kit will usually
require separate purchase and installation of servos, choice of motor (gas, or electric), speed controller (electric) and occasionally
control rods. This is an advantage over RTF kits, as most model aircraft enthusiasts already own their equipment of choice, and
only desire an airframe."

This information found:

Wikipedia Encylopedia

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