An experiment with two super-powered RC helicopters seems to show the machines are capable of lifting a full-grown person off the ground.

However, most commercial helicopters fly slower than this RC model appropriately called the Banshee. The video we found of it is from 2013 and shows it hitting 277 km/h, but it has gone a lot ...

By Stefan Wolf, Chair of the CIAM F3 RC Helicopter Sub-committee The 2025 FAI F3CN World Championships for Model Helicopters took place in Pitești, Romania, from 4 to 9 August 2025. The venue was the ...

Witness exciting exploration of the most unusual, powerful, and downright bizarre remote-controlled (RC) models on the market! From helicopters that can fly in your bedroom to futuristic space ...

This week the folks at Swann have let loose information about three completely different remote controlled helicopters, each one more impressive and strange than the… ...

The UK government has gone on the record to state that only Leonardo Helicopters had submitted a tender for the New Medium Helicopter (NMH) programme, intended to deliver a fleet of around 14 ...

Three bidders - and three different aircraft manufacturers - are in the running to supply a new fleet of helicopters for use by the UK armed forces under the Military Flight Training System (MFTS ...

Of course, the RC toy market is overflowing with miniature helicopters, so it's difficult to say with any degree of certainty if it is indeed the world's smallest, but it certainly looks the part.

Assembling your own tiny helicopter motors and mechanisms would be quite difficult, and time consuming. [saulemmetquinn] was instead able to leverage the good parts of the original design, and ...