Greg Minden, like a lot of Prop Nuts Radio Control Airplane Club members, grew up building regular store-bought, plastic and Krazy Glue model airplanes. They were never really big, fast or ...

Rick Rosenkilde remembers sending his airplane aloft, making high-speed loops and dives and other gravity-defying moves. But when the battery fell out of the plane, he knew that meant big trouble.

Hobbyists who fly radio-controlled model airplanes hope that a planned flight show this month will persuade Fairfax County park officials to set aside an area on county parkland as a flight area, park ...