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    A radio-controlled aircraft (often called RC aircraft or RC plane) is a small flying machine that is radio controlled by an operator on the ground using...
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    board, which was controlled at a distance over 2 km. In 1904, Bat, a Windermere steam launch, was controlled using experimental radio control by its inventor...
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    used to control a radio-controlled vehicle from the driver or pilot's viewpoint. Most commonly it is used to pilot a radio-controlled aircraft or other...
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    A radio-controlled model (or RC model) is a model that is steerable with the use of radio control (RC). All types of model vehicles have had RC systems...
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  • Pilot-controlled lighting (PCL), also known as aircraft radio control of aerodrome lighting (ARCAL) or pilot-activated lighting (PAL), is a system that...
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    Model Airplane News Model airport Model ship Paper plane Radio-controlled aircraft Radio-controlled model Simple Plastic Airplane Design Walkalong glider...
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  • This is a list of notable companies that manufacture Ready To Fly and Almost Ready to Fly airplane kits. Airtronics Great Planes Hangar 9 Hobbico HobbyZone...
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    A radio-controlled helicopter (also RC helicopter) is model aircraft which is distinct from a RC airplane because of the differences in construction, aerodynamics...
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    A radio-controlled glider is a type of radio-controlled aircraft that normally does not have any form of propulsion. They are able to sustain continuous...
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    Radio-controlled aerobatics is the practice of flying radio-controlled aircraft in maneuvers involving aircraft attitudes that are not used in normal...
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  • Radio-controlled cars, or RC cars for short, are miniature vehicles (cars, vans, buses, buggies, etc.) controlled via radio. Nitro powered models use...
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    commercial and hobby drones (unmanned aerial vehicles), radio-controlled aircraft, radio-controlled cars, and large-scale model trains, where the advantages...
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    Micromechanical Flying Insect ParcAberporth Quadcopter Radio-controlled aircraft Autonomous aircraft Optionally piloted vehicle Sypaq Corvo Precision Payload...
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  • HobbyZone (category Radio-controlled aircraft)
    HobbyZone is a brand of electric-powered radio controlled aircraft, car, and boat models distributed by Horizon Hobby of Champaign, Illinois. Originally...
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  • British unmanned aerial vehicles of World War I (category Radio-controlled aircraft)
    controlled a drone aircraft and a number of fast unmanned motor boats operating in close flotilla formation had been individually controlled by radio...
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    designs feature separate anti-flutter weights. (In radio controlled model aircraft, the term "control horn" has a different meaning) In the simplest arrangement...
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    Model aircraft Radio-controlled aircraft "F3 - Radio Control Soaring". www.fai.org. 2017-07-20. Retrieved 2022-03-22. "FAI Sporting Code Volume F3 Radio Control...
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    signal on the radio wave by varying some aspect of the wave) in the transmitter. In radar, used to locate and track objects like aircraft, ships, spacecraft...
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  • worn out Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and Consolidated PB4Y bombers as radio controlled flying bombs against bunkers and other hardened or reinforced enemy...
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  • Great Planes Model Manufacturing (category Radio-controlled aircraft)
    Manufacturing Company of Champaign, Illinois, United States, was a radio-controlled model manufacturer and distributor and a part of Hobbico, Incorporated...
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    case with infrared control. Radio-controlled aircraft Remote-controlled animal Remotely operated underwater vehicle Robot control Teleoperation Telerobotics...
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    experimented with radio-controlled aircraft. In 1936 the head of US Navy research group used the term "DRONE" to designate radio-controlled aerial targets...
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  • Hirobo (category Radio-controlled aircraft)
    Japanese RC model company best known for their line of high-quality radio controlled helicopter models, both glow fuel powered (also referred to as nitro...
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    Outrunner (category Radio-controlled aircraft)
    though the motor were turned inside out. They are often used in radio-controlled model aircraft. This type of motor spins its outer shell around its windings...
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    Ridge lift (category Radio-controlled aircraft)
    Paragliding – Soaring with a paraglider Radio-controlled glider – Type of radio-controlled aircraft Controllable slope soaring – Type of slope soaring where...
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    Joystick (redirect from Control stick)
    users. The first use of joysticks outside the radio-controlled aircraft industry may have been in the control of powered wheelchairs, such as the Permobil...
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    Kline–Fogleman airfoil (category Aircraft wing design)
    hobbyist builders of radio-controlled aircraft, due to its simplicity of construction. But it has not been adopted for full-size aircraft capable of carrying...
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    types of uncrewed vehicles: Remote control vehicle (RC), such as radio-controlled cars or radio-controlled aircraft Unmanned ground vehicle (UGV), such...
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    ParkZone (category Radio-controlled aircraft)
    ParkZone was a brand specializing in intermediate-level, radio-controlled electric model aircraft. It was created and distributed by Horizon Hobby, an American...
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    ground and through a given section of controlled airspace, and can provide advisory services to aircraft in non-controlled airspace. The primary purpose of...
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