Have you taken a close look at the objects from the museum’s collection that have been posted over the last three weeks? If not, check them out! What do they have in common? Herb noted that “314” was in the address for both the Polk’s Hobbies Van and the Control […]
Continue readingCategory: Control Line
March 2014 Guessing Game, pt. 2
Did you get a good look at the artifact picture posted last week? You’ll need to look close to see what it has in common with this week’s artifact. If you can spot the common trait between the two, email Maria at mariav@modelaircraft.org. The first person to get in touch […]
Continue readingGo-Devil Memories
Bob Palmer’s Go-Devil was designed in the late 1940s and considered to be the first Control Line Stunt model flown with flaps. The museum is in the process of building a replica of this model for the collection, but we’ve hit a snag. We’ve been unable to locate photographs of […]
Continue readingMadman Yates and his Madman model
The museum portion of April’s Model Aviation “In the Air” column looks at J.C. Yates’ Madman CL Aerobatics airplane that is in the museum collection. There wasn’t enough room in the column to share all of the information related to the model, so it is shared here in a “deleted scenes” type […]
Continue readingDebut of the Miss Shirley
Control Line model flying got its start with the Miss Shirley, a model airplane built in 1937 by Oba St. Clair. Over the course of the last two years, museum volunteers have been researching and building a reproduction of the original Miss Shirley. (Pictures of the model in progress can […]
Continue reading
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 […]
Continue readingControl Line 75th Anniversary
On Friday, July 20, 2012 noted Control Line Historian Charles Mackey, along with special guest Ms. Shirley St. Clair will be presenting a program celebrating the 75th anniversary of Oba St. Clair’s Control Line achievements. A reproduction of the Miss Shirley, Oba St. Clair’s first Control Line model flown in […]
Continue reading
Recent Comments