With a new generation of slow, very easy to set up and fly models at our fingertips, many new modelers are discovering the joy of radio control (RC). For the newcomer, these smallish, backyard-flyer designs have eliminated the necessity of traveling to a local club's flying field where larger, more complicated RC planes are required to fly. We can now fly at almost any convenient field, whether it is a local baseball diamond, a schoolyard, or a soccer field. If you have a fairly large yard, the fun of RC flying can be right outside your kitchen door! But learning how and where to fly safely requires a bit of knowledge and some new terminology. This article highlights some of the considerations that might not be obvious to the fledgling modeler.

If you've never flown an RC airplane  before, you might be tempted to buy one that has a lot of visual appeal, such as a scale model or an advanced sport flyer. Though many of those types of kits are fairly easy to assemble, the models can be very difficult to fly if you have no previous experience. Your first plane should be a good trainer something to cut your teeth on before moving up the performance ladder. 

Now you can put on your very own mini rc car! Set up your very own palm sized RC Racing Car and let the racing begin!

This cool mini rc car is only 9.5cm long, about the same size as a mobile phone, and includes a fully functioning 6-way remote control complete with a turbo button for extra speed!

The easy to use controller for this speed machine also doubles as your Car's charger. Running off 4 x AA batteries, just plug the charge cable from the controller into the back of your Racing Car for a quick 2 minute charge and away you go! Depending on use, your Car will zoom around for between 5 to 10 minutes before needing a charge again.

An RC helicopter using a contra-rotating system will have two rotors spinning in opposite directions. The torque generated by the rotor blades is canceled out, and the rc plane will not require a tail rotor to keep it from spinning. This allows the rc helicopter's tail boom to be eliminated, saving weight. One possible layout has one rotor blade mounted at each end of a long fuselage, as it is for the Boeing CH-47 Chinook, and is known as a tandem rotor. Alternatively, both contra-rotating rotors can be placed on the same shaft, resulting in a co-axial design. Co-axial rc helicopters are very stable and easy to fly. The Bladerunner series indoor rc helicopters use co-axial designed rotor blades.

It is possible for an RC heli to use more that two main rotor blades. The thrust from all the RC helicopter's rotors is combined to generate lift, and the thrust produced by each rotor can be varied to allow the RC heli to maneuver. Decreasing thrust on rotors near the front will cause the RC airplane  to tilt forward and move in that direction. The same method can be used to allow the RC helicopter to move backward and side to side. Draganflyer RC Helicopters use multi-rotor design.