Balsa wood gliders used cost a 10-25 cents apiece, but today start at $1.50 and go up to several dollars. Guillow also makes both un-powered and powered remote control planes from plastic foam ...

Thanks to a man named Paul K Guillow, balsa was crafted into small, handheld gliders in 1928. It came out of the aviation craze after Charles Lindbergh’s spectacular transatlantic flight from ...

Balsa wood airplanes can be simple gliders, but can also be rubber band-powered or even overhauled to correspond with remote-controlled devices. Robison may be contacted at 509-534-2205 for ...

there was balsa wood. it’s basically glue. a little bit of sandpaper and that that will do it for 100 years. ... willow sells 14 different gliders, now 80 different models, ...

Many readers may fondly recall building rubber-band-powered balsa wood model airplanes. While the things were kinda cool, they didn't fly for long, nor could they be remotely controlled. Such is ...

Which RC planes are best? Kids start flying with paper gliders they make themselves, then move on to balsa wood gliders that go farther and stay aloft longer. When kids first get into powered ...

Which RC planes are best? Kids start flying with paper gliders they make themselves, then move on to balsa wood gliders that go farther and stay aloft longer. When kids first get into powered ...