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 […]
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Museum Recommended by the FAI
The Academy of Model Aeronautics’ National Model Aviation Museum was approved as a Fédération Aéronautique Internationale Recommended Museum during the 106th FAI General Conference in Antalya, Turkey last year. The museum is one of three museums that have been recognized by the FAI in the United States. The FAI Recommended Museum […]
Continue readingBehind Glass
“I love the old: when it’s behind glass. Thank God for 2.4.” This comment was recently left in regards to the museum’s radio control equipment exhibit, which encourages visitors to leave comments and information about the radios on display. It raises a good point – the past is the past, and […]
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 readingJetex 100s
In the July 2012 issue of Model Aviation, we asked if anyone would be interested in donating a Jetex 100 or 200 motor to complete a reconstruction of the Zephyr Free Flight endurance model airplane built for the collection. At the time, the museum collection had no examples of either […]
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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