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Model aircraft materials?

As a boy I used to design and build my own, diesel-powered model airplanes (sometimes using plans from “The Aeromodeller”).. That was half a century ago! What are free-flight or R/C models made from today? Surely not from balsa wood and tissue-paper? Can anyone give me any tips? Thanks.

Yes Balsa wood is still used… Tissue not so much… Various heat shrink plastics are used Solar Film. Wings can be Foam vaneered with wood…

Guillows Fly Boy Model Kit $10.71 Free glue included. Build-N-Fly models are designed to take a builder with little or no experience in model airplane building from the very basic all balsa “Trainer” glider to the “Fly Boy” a box fuselage, stick & tissue rubber powered model. Build-N-Fly models are ideal for individual use or for group model building such as in scouts or a school class. Each kit contains the right combination of b…