From our Museum Director: While researching a recent donation, happened across some great information and pictures of Orlan Corben. Before Piper, Cessna, Kitfox, and Vans, before AOPA, CAP, EAA, and the FAA, there was Ace. Two decades after the Wright Brothers’ first flight, flying had become a rich man’s luxury. […]
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#AskClaire January 3, 2020
On today’s #AskClaire, we look at some models that were acquired on today’s date in previous years. On today’s #AskClaire, we look at some models that were acquired on today’s date in previous years. Posted by National Model Aviation Museum on Friday, January 3, 2020
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SpaceShipOne Test Model Coming to National Model Aviation Museum
Dan Kreigh of Scaled Composites and RutanRC has loaned a RC test model of SpaceShipOne to the National Model Aviation Museum. Dan designed and built the test model to help Burt Rutan demonstrate the re-entry feathering concept. Burt had Dan fly the RC test model for all the SpaceShipOne test […]
Continue readingAero-TV: No Small Achievement – AMA’s Extraordinary Model Aviation Museum
A Truly Spectacular Sport Aviation Treasure — For ALL Those Who Love Aviation Join ANN CEO and Editor-In-Chief, Jim Campbell, as he relives his childhood start in aviation through model aircraft when he visits the Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA) headquarters and the AMA Museum located in Muncie, Indiana. In […]
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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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Reginald Denny, actor, modeler, designer
Born Reginald Leigh Daymore on November 20, 1891, Denny grew up in England. Working with a stage group, he toured parts of the world in his early 20s. But he was also an avid flier and airplane designer. He was an aviator with the Royal Air Force during WWI, and though he started back into his acting career when the war ended, he also kept up with his airplane passion.
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AMA and Model Aviation History Moments November
Week 4 – November 22, 2011: The Three Celebrations of Eagles “Celebration of Eagles,” July 6-7, 1996 The AMA hosted its 60th anniversary on the Muncie site, dubbing the two-day party a “Celebration of Eagles.” A reception was held in the Museum on Friday, then on Saturday fun flying started. […]
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AMA and Model Aviation History Moments October
Week 4 – October 28, 2011: AMA Incorporates, Separates from the NAA, 1966 It may not look like much, but the following document made the AMA a stand-alone organization. Originally a part of the NAA, the AMA became its own separated entity on October 26, 1966. What followed this first […]
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AMA and Model Aviation History Moments September
Week 5 – September 29, 2011: Sound Sound is such an important issue that in 1991 the AMA dedicated a whole book towards the issue. Why? The best explanation is a quote from a 1973-1974 study by the Western Associated Modelers – Noise Level Committee that is looked at in depth […]
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