| The invention of the flying machine changed | | | | nations, so that now many countries have |
| humanity. It changed the way and the speed | | | | similar sophisticated and modern military |
| at which we travel. It made the world seem a | | | | aircraft. |
| little smaller as people and places in | | | | |
| distant lands suddenly seemed much nearer by | | | | With all of this in mind, a model airplanes |
| the lessened time it would take to reach | | | | hobby can obviously be, not just some little |
| them. It increased our communication between | | | | simple thing that people do, but it can teach |
| people and nations as they could travel | | | | about history and science. One can learn |
| across oceans and meet in person rather than | | | | about modern military aircraft right |
| communicating by letters or other | | | | alongside with the plane flown by the Red |
| non-personal means. Flying quickly became a | | | | Baron in WWI. One can learn the evolution of |
| recreational sport, an attractive career, and | | | | the aircraft; the different types of planes |
| an appealing science. It lifted man into the | | | | and styles that countries developed and built |
| skies, where before he only dreamt of going. | | | | upon or discontinued. Currently there are |
| It freed us from the confines of this earth | | | | very many modern developers of airplanes. |
| upon which we live. Flight drastically | | | | There are even more airlines that are |
| changed the way wars are fought. Suddenly | | | | supplied by these airplane manufacturers. If |
| nations were no longer protected by standing | | | | you are at all interested in aviation, what |
| armies at their borders. A plane could | | | | better way to start than to purchase your own |
| easily fly over their borders and attack a | | | | model airplane and begin learning the history |
| city deep in the heart of a country. Planes | | | | of airplanes? |
| were merciless war machines dropping bombs on | | | | |
| cities, respecting neither soldiers nor | | | | There are also radio control airplanes. This |
| citizens. All were vulnerable and targets of | | | | side of a model airplane hobby may focus more |
| the loads of bombs dropped by planes. Later | | | | on the science and actual flight of |
| other uses of airplanes were created, more | | | | airplanes. Model airplanes work according to |
| recreational and sporty, such as the model | | | | the same laws of science and physics as a |
| airplane and the radio control airplane. | | | | real airplane. They use the same laws of |
| | | | thrust and lift. The wings, tails, and |
| The airplane model is a replica of the | | | | propellers of a model all have to be built |
| larger, real planes that are or were actually | | | | according to the same principles of flight. |
| flown. From the first plane flown by the | | | | The model airplane can stall in the air or |
| Wright Brothers to our modern aircraft and | | | | crash similar to real plane. |
| space shuttles, you can find model airplane | | | | |
| replicas. The replicas consist of planes | | | | Not surprisingly, the airplane and its |
| flown in all of the wars, from many different | | | | offshoot developments are continuing to |
| countries. Each country was always trying to | | | | change humanity, from their wars, their |
| outdo the others in their command of the | | | | communications, their travels and finally to |
| skies. In the days of airplanes, if you | | | | their hobbies. Who knows what will happen |
| controlled the skies, you controlled the war. | | | | next, where the airplane will lead us next. |
| This competition between countries led the | | | | But it is obviously important to take a part |
| quick development of a variety of different | | | | in this continuing human experiment in |
| types of fighting military aircraft. The | | | | aviation and flight, even if you just start |
| more effective types of planes were quickly | | | | with a model airplane or radio control |
| adopted by all of the countries, however, and | | | | airplane. |
| nations began selling airplanes to other | | | | |