Walt Good was such a prominent name in early (and later) Radio Control history, it’s no surprise he helped design some RC equipment for production, including this Walt Good’s Tone-Aerotrol Transmitter, manufactured by Berkeley Models. Thanks to Clark Schadle and Vernon Darley for the donation! ————————————————————————— […]
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New Addition: Electron
Flying Models published its first article about an RC model in December 1950. The article, written by Norman Rosenstock, featured Norm’s Electron, a model designed and built by Norm in 1949 specifically to meet the needs and abilities of radio control modeling. Originally controlled via a ground-based transmitter, Norm later […]
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New Addition: PCS Transmitter
Thanks to Jack Poppenhager for donating this PCS transmitter to the museum collection! Thanks, Jack, for helping to grow the museum collection! ————————————————————————— 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: R-Kitty
In the 1950s, the Army National Guard Anti-Aircraft Artillery Unit used RCAT target drones by Aerolab to practice their gunnery. A smaller Aerolab drone, similar to the RCAT, called the R-Kitty, was used by the RCAT operators to practice flight operations. […]
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New Addition: 3 kits
Many thanks to Louis M. Pinard for adding to our kit collection with these three kits: West Wings De Havilland D.H. 80A Puss Moth VK Model Aircraft Company, Navajo Sterling Models, Imperial Ringmaster. Thank you, Louis, for helping to grow the collection! ————————————————————————— For more information on the National […]
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New Addition: Knight Twister
The Multi-Wing Championships, held in Omaha, NE in 1973, were the precursor to the evolution of the Tournament of Champions and IMAC competition. Flying the Knight Twister, Bill Heger won the event and made history. On 3/27/2017 Bill, along with his good friend Jack Poppenhager (Jack won the event in […]
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New Addition: Super Cyclone engine
According to notes in the back of the engine manual, Bill Bennett ran this engine twice, for a total of 53 minutes in 1951. It was never installed in a model airplane, which explains why this Super Cyclone engine is in pristine condition. The engine was donated to the museum […]
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Thank you! and NMAM Year-in-Review
Here’s a few numbers relating to the museum in 2016: There’s been: 35 donations of photographs and scrapbooks and documents to the museum’s archives 21 donations of books and magazines for library 11 donations of plans to the plans collection 39 donations of kits and airplanes and radio control equipment […]
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New Addition: Tri-County Aero Shirt
What’s great about the logo on this shirt (besides the logo itself)? The story behind it! At the age of 13, Kyle Jaracz designed this logo for the Tri-County Aero Club in exchange for his membership in the club. Kyle donated the shirt to the museum in honor of his […]
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New Addition: Jaecks’ Penny Planes
Jenifer “Izzy” Jaecks visited today and donated the last two penny planes her father, Dennis Jaecks, built and flew. Dennis was an accomplished penny plane flyer, holding the Cat. II Open National Record in 1977 with a flight of 13 minutes 42 seconds. Jenifer donated the two models in honor […]
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