Piloting Pint-size Planes

The fascination with miniature aircraft goes back much further--one of the earliest recorded man-made flying devices was an ancient Chinese toy made of twigs and feathers. Centuries later, Igor Sikorsky, the Russian-born developer of the helicopters that bear his name, experimented when he was 12, in in 1901, with a rubber-band-powered protocopter. Today, one can buy a radio-controlled model designed to snap aerial photographs of one's house or company picnic. As Wolkomir discusses, across the country, weekend aviators are sending their remote-controlled model aircraft soaring.