By Rachelle Haughn, rachelleh@modelaircraft.org If you visit the National Model Aviation Museum in Muncie, Indiana, this summer, you might notice something dramatically different about one exhibit area. The first change that you could see is the absence of the theater. In 2021, AMA employees demolished the theater area. In the […]
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New Addition: Little Toni
With the shine on this finish, it is hard to believe that this model was built over 50 years ago. It isn’t hard to believe, though, that Ted Prasol won the Testors Best Finish Award for this model in 1965. A scale version of a Cosmic Wind Little Toni, the […]
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New Addition: CL Pesco Special
In the late 1950s, the Gulf Hawks Club of Northern Florida revived the Thompson Trophy Air Races by racing 1/12 scale CL profile models of famous racers. After a description of the event was published in American Aircraft Modeler in September 1959, this form of modeling caught on and, after […]
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New Addition: 1/2A CL Racers
Frank H. Scott came by yesterday to donate three 1/2A CL Racers to the museum. All of these not only tell the story of the rule changes and development in CL Racing, but also some family stories as well! Thanks, Frank, for growing the museum collection and sharing your stories […]
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New Addition: 3 Vintage Kits
Jack Hadley, in Memory Of Quentin Webster, donated these three kits. The kits were once for sale in Webster’s Hobby Shop in AZ. Thanks, Jack, for helping to grow the museum’s collection! ————————————————————————— For more information on the National Model Aviation Museum, including our location, hours and admission fees visit: […]
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New Addition: Veco 2″ Spinner
This Veco 2″ diameter spinner is pretty plain now, but soon will be painted to match Steve Wooley’s Cobra. Once installed it’ll look pretty slick (both the spinner, and the completed Cobra)! Thanks to Will Davis for the donation! ETA – We stand corrected! This wasn’t painted, so the spinner […]
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1939 Inverted CL Flight
Roy Mayes is believed to be the first person to fly a Control Line model inverted. Mayes’ 1939 flight was with a Free Flight model converted to Control Line by the addition of a bell crank and elevator. In 2011, Ron Wittman built a reproduction of Mayes’ model airplane for […]
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New Addition: Velvet 3 CL Stunt Model
Wesley M. Dick was on an airplane watching the wing flaps move when he wondered how the bidirectional flaps could be incorporated into a Control Line Aerobatics model aircraft. After developing the idea, Wesley had a working system of bidirectional double-slotted blown flaps that he incorporated into a model he […]
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How do Control Line Speed models go so fast?
Just as there are certain components that help a model airplane to fly, there are certain other designs that help it to fly fast. Everything on the outside of a Control Line model is designed to reduce drag: smaller size, smaller tails, no vertical stabilizer, engine casing, smooth fuselage, etc. […]
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New Exhibit: Control Line Speed!
The spotlight is on Control Line Speed in the museum’s newest exhibit. Fourteen CL speed models, dating from 1945 to the 1980s are shown along with relevant documentation and information on the CL Speed classes. Exhibited models include Bill Wisniewksi’s Pink Lady, Johnny Clemen’s world record setter, Wally Wallick’s Wally’s […]
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