Faces from 1938, pt. 3

This is your third chance to help us figure out the names of the mysterious flyers who attended the Annual Miniature Airplane Contest of October 2, 1938 in Kansas City, Missouri, as described in the “History Preserved” column of the April 2014 issue of Model Aviation.

A panoramic photograph showing the participants of the Annual Miniature Airplane Contest, held October 2, 1938 in Kansas City, Missouri. A plastic layer over the photograph details some of the names of the participants.
Annual Miniature Airplane Contest, Kansas City, MO, Oct 2, 1938. [#0215 J. D. Foster Collection, National Model Aviation Museum]
Here is the mid-right section of the photograph.  You can check out the left and mid-left sides in previous posts.

Mid-right section, Panoramic Photograph, Annual Miniature Airplane Contest, Kansas City, MO, October 2, 1938. [#0215 J. D. Foster Collection, National Model Aviation Museum Archives]
Mid-right section, Panoramic Photograph, Annual Miniature Airplane Contest, Kansas City, MO, October 2, 1938. [#0215 J. D. Foster Collection, National Model Aviation Museum Archives]
Can you identify these flyers? If so, please write to the Museum’s Archivist, Jackie, at jackies@modelaircraft.org.

We will post one more blog with one last close-up view of the photograph. Here’s the last section a great piece of American modeling history.

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