The model airplane and balsa wood glider company Guillow's has been headquartered in Wakefield for nearly a century.

This is our first balsa wood kit, really proud and excited to announce the new Tanár, a kit for beginners but also for ...

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 not ...

From left: John Robison, Matt Druckerhammer and Floyd Czoski fly a One Nite28 balsa wood airplane, a Thermic B glider and a Thermic 18 glider respectively on Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020 at the South Hill ...

This time we're going to modify our last glider to make it RC, with a micro motor so we can have a lot more fun flying for up ...

Mike Moore, a life-long pilot and retired executive from Liberty Lake built this balsa wood and paper model of a German Albatross aircraft during the pandemic. He left off the paper covering because ...

Where does the balsa tree grow? Why is it so lightweight? What is it good for? Why do I even want to talk about it? Balsa trees were mentioned a few times in a story of jungle survival by a group of ...

On cue, eight boys sent their ultralight balsa wood airplanes sailing. The fifth- and sixth-graders looked up in awe, murmuring an occasional “Wow” and “Whoa,” as their rubber-band-powered creations ...