Wesley M. Dick was on an airplane watching the wing flaps move when he wondered how the bidirectional flaps could be incorporated into a Control Line Aerobatics model aircraft. After developing the idea, Wesley had a working system of bidirectional double-slotted blown flaps that he incorporated into a model he […]
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New Addition: Frank B. Baker’s 2006 B-24
In 1966 RC-flying a multi-engine scale aircraft seemed impossible. Frank B. Baker with his 60″ wingspan model that “looked like a B-24″ proved this wrong. The B-24 look a like was powered by four Cox TD .020 engines and had only rudder control. It used the technology of the time, […]
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New Addition: Tetherite Plastic Products
Tetherite Plastic Products, operated by Ray Randolph, sold a variety of injected molded modeling supplies, including Krazy Legs landing gear. A collection of the most well-known Tetherite products was recently donated to the museum in Ray’s memory. ————————————————————————— For more information on the National Model Aviation Museum, including our location, […]
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New Addition: Mercury 45 engine
Avion Machine and Tool Co. marketed their Mercury 45 engine to RC fans in 1946 by focusing on their new “real” carburetor which could regulate both gas and air simultaneously, allowing full control over the speed. The ad makes a point, though, to say that while this is most advantageous […]
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New Addition: WWII Army Jeep Kit
Balsa wood was a rationed war material during World War II. This hit modelers and kit companies hard, forcing them to turn to other materials, like hard wood and cardboard. This H.F. Auler Company Army Jeep kit shows that it wasn’t only model airplane kits that had to make do. […]
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Winning 1930 Boeing P-12B
The talk of the 1930 Airplane Model Contest is on exhibit in the museum from now until Labor Day 2016. The Boeing P-12B had just begun operations for the United States Military in 1930. That same year that William Chaffee built a scale version for the Airplane Model League of […]
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New Addition: Sifleet’s F1E Model Airplane
Launched from a hill, Free Flight Slope Soaring Gliders (FAI Class F1E) fly in a straight line into the wind. To allow them to stay on course, models are equipped with a magnet-based automatic steering device attached to the rudder on the forward fin. Built in 2002, Robert K. Sifleet’s […]
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New Addition: 1st Place 1949 Nats Seaplane Event Trophy
1949 Nats lists record that Ted Enticknap won 1st place in Free Flight Gas Class D, Open Class and Free Flight Gas, Rise off Water. He was flying his Gool, which was donated to the museum in 2010. To more fully tell the Gool’s story, the Enticknap Family and Allyn […]
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The Golden Peanut Trophy of 1967
In 1967, Henry Struck, flying a Howard Pete built from Dallaire plans won the first Peanut Scale competition. Appropriately, the trophy he won was titled The Golden Peanut. The trophy is made from wood, plastic and a real peanut painted gold. After almost 40 years the trophy was in pretty […]
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Step-by-Step: Building a Dallaire Howard Pete
August 2015: After research into the beginnings of Peanut Scale, museum volunteer Vance Gilbert begins building a reproduction of Henry Struck’s Howard Pete, built from Dallaire Plans. Flying the Howard Pete, Struck won the first Peanut Scale contest at a 1967 Flying Aces competition. Vance documented the build process with […]
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