Oba St. Clair designed, built, and flew the first Control Line model, the Miss Shirley, in 1937. A reproduction of the Miss Shirley was built for the museum and unveiled this year. You can now see a full rotating 360 view of the model aircraft at this link: https://www.modelaircraft.org/museum/missshirley.aspx If […]
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Landing Party on Saturday November 17, 2012
You’re invited to a free party welcoming back to Muncie’s National Model Aviation Museum the 1/40-scale test models sent along with NASA’s Shuttle Carrier Aircraft as it brought the Space Shuttle Endeavour to Los Angeles. Also returning to the museum after a loan to The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis are five NASA research […]
Continue readingHours Switch
The leaves are falling and the museum is shortening its hours for the winter season. Beginning November 1, 2012, the National Model Aviation Museum will be open during the following times: Monday – Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The museum will be closed every Sunday, as well as Thanksgiving Day, Christmas […]
Continue readingSleuthing in the library
The case: Identify a book discussing building and flying model aeroplanes. The information and drawings in the book refer to tractor monoplanes and strip rubber, and doesn’t make any mention of balsa wood. Unfortunately, the cover and title pages are missing so other than obvious age, there is little information […]
Continue readingBoeing 747 and Space Shuttle models on loan to NASA
When the National Aeronautic and Space Administration’s (NASA) 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) takes off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida this week to bring the Space Shuttle Endeavour to the California Science Center in Los Angeles, two models from the National Model Aviation Museum are going along for the […]
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Radio-Controlled 747 and Space Shuttle models
Boeing 747 and Space Shuttle Radio-Controlled 1/40-scale Test Models Donated by John Kiker Astronaut Robert “Hoot” Gibson, who serves as AMA Ambassador, was a friend of John. Hear him discuss about the models’ history in this video. In the mid-1970s, during the development of the Space Shuttle program, National Aeronautics […]
Continue readingMuseum Hours Switch
With Nats almost over, this is your friendly reminder that the museum is ending the extended Nats hours on August 17, 2012. Starting August 18, we go back to the regular summer hours. Those hours are: Monday – Friday 8:00am to 4:30pm Saturday-Sunday 10:00am to 4:00pm Hope to see everyone […]
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 readingMuseum hours during Nats
During Nats the museum extends its open hours. As of Monday, July 9, 2012 the museum will be open during the following times: Monday – Friday: 8:00 am to 6:00 pm Saturday – Sunday 11:00 am to 5:00 pm Nats hours end on Friday, August 17, 2012 and the regular […]
Continue readingMarble vs. Granite
Here at the museum we have multiple projects that are handled not only by our regular staff, but also our interns. While working on his summer internship project of inventorying and creating a better storage solution for the museum’s trophy collection, Cameron Anderson stumbled upon an interesting problem. The problem […]
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