Besides model airplanes, the museum also collects artifacts that help tell the modeling story. One such artifact, a surveyor’s measuring wheel, arrived at the museum on 10/20/2017. Watch museum staff open the box and see the surveyor’s wheel for the first time on the museum’s Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/modelaircraftmuseum.
Why a surveying wheel you ask? Early Free Flight contests were judged on distance, so a way to measure distance was needed! The surveyor’s wheel was a donated by David Lee Ingram of the Virtual Museum of Surveying.
Thanks to the Virtual Museum of Surveying for helping to grow our museum’s collection!
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For more information on the National Model Aviation Museum, including our location, hours and admission fees visit: www.modelaircraft.org/museum