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