Once upon a time, RC planes were expensive models that took months to build and big money to equip with electronics. Since the 20th century though, powerful batteries have become cheap ...

[Tom Stanton] is a fan of things like rubber band planes, and has built ... Thus, he elected to build himself a much larger supercapacitor-powered model. He wired up a pack of six supercapacitors ...

At 3D Lab Print, for example, you can buy RC plane plans and some of these kits also include the correct filament you'll need to complete the build. The cool thing is they have a free Piper J-3 ...