The 1910 Jopson Gasoline Motor weighed 7.5 pounds and had a unique wick carburetor system installed in a tank without any sort of pressurization. Could it actually power a model airplane in flight? Yes! …. Or, well, we’re pretty sure. Photographs published in the book Model Aeroplaning: Its Practice and […]
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#PatchTuesday, August 2017, week 3
Sad news, today’s #PatchTuesday is the last one! It has been a full year and is time to stop. Before we end, however, lets raise some money through the Trans-America flights in 1979 and 1981. ————————————————————————— For more information on the National Model Aviation Museum, including our location, hours and […]
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New Addition: (Very) Early FF Reproductions
Reproductions of two early Free Flight record setters are now part of the museum’s collection thanks to the research of museum director Michael Smith and the research and building efforts of museum volunteer Terry Hreno. Although C. Fleming-Williams, along with W.G. Aston, are often credited with designing the first A-frame […]
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New Addition: Topping 100
Aluminum model airplanes were trending after WWII. The trend died out soon afterwards, but out of it came the Topping 100 CL model, manufactured and sold by Topping Models of OH beginning in 1945. Thanks to the generosity of Rev. Dr. Robert H. Secrist the museum has been able to […]
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#PatchTuesday, August 2017, week 2
Today’s #PatchTuesday invades your feed with lots of the classic Circus Circus pink to share some of the 1970s Tournament of Champions patches. ————————————————————————— For more information on the National Model Aviation Museum, including our location, hours and admission fees visit: www.modelaircraft.org/museum
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New Addition: Raptor 30
This IRCHA, the museum gives thanks to Bob Gautreaux for donating a Raptor 30 with a Thunder Tiger Pro 36 glow engine installed. After these RC helicopters debuted in 1997 it was considered the most popular model helicopter in the world. Thanks, Bob for helping to grow the museum’s collection! […]
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50th Anniversary of the 1967 Nats & a New Addition
On 8/3/1967, Harold S. Auerhan, M.D., who placed 3rd in RC Scale, came home from the 1967 Nats at the Naval Air Station in Los Alamitos, CA, and posed for this picture, titling it: “The Happy Modeler Aug 3, 1967 with the prize-winning Great Lakes.” Almost fifty years later in […]
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New Addition: AL-33 Towline Glider
This AL-33 towline glider has traveled the world. Built in 1979 by Andres Lepp of Estonia, he flew it at many international events around Europe and the Americans – including the 1989 Free Flight World Championships in Argentina. It was then sold to Lee R. Hines of California. Lee also […]
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#PatchTuesday, August 2017, week 1
How about some RC Soaring for today’s #PatchTuesday? ————————————————————————— For more information on the National Model Aviation Museum, including our location, hours and admission fees visit: www.modelaircraft.org/museum
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50th Anniversary of the 1967 Nats
Today’s the last day of 50th Anniversary of the 1967 Nats at the Naval Air Station in Los Alamitos, CA! Everyone is packing up and going home – except for these guys. The museum’s here full time, but we’ll see the Nats next summer – 1968 or 2018. ;o) Learn […]
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