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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Carl Goldberg’s Prototype Zipper
Free Flight was forever changed after the introduction of Carl Goldberg’s Zipper model at the 1938 Nats. The model, with its raised pylon, undercambered airfoil and polyhedral wing is unmistakable and iconic. Want to know why the Zipper is so famous? Watch this Fly-By! The Zipper in the museum’s collection […]
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Coming Soon: Artifact Photos That Spin
The National Model Aviation Museum has recently acquired a new piece of equipment that allows us to take high-resolution 360 degree spherical photographs of objects. With the rig, we have the ability to not only take spherical 360 photographs of an object, but also hemi-spherical (180 degrees), single angle 360 […]
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