Control Line model flying got its start with the Miss Shirley, a model airplane built in 1937 by Oba St. Clair. Over the course of the last two years, museum volunteers have been researching and building a reproduction of the original Miss Shirley. (Pictures of the model in progress can […]
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AMA member marks an anniversary with model building project
For the past two years, Scott Cheslik has been spending an inordinate amount of time with Miss Shirley, but his wife Sharon doesn’t mind. Miss Shirley, after all, is a model airplane. Not just any model airplane, though. The blue and yellow beauty with the more than eight-foot wingspan, which […]
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In the July 2012 issue of Model Aviation, we asked if anyone would be interested in donating a Jetex 100 or 200 motor to complete a reconstruction of the Zephyr Free Flight endurance model airplane built for the collection. At the time, the museum collection had no examples of either […]
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