“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 readingClosing update
December 26, 2012, the museum will be CLOSED due to the winter storm happening in Indiana. Updates about our hours for the rest of the week will be made to the museum website as information is available. See https://www.modelaircraft.org/museum/museuminfo.aspx for further information.
Continue readingMuseum Holiday Hours
If you are planning on visiting the museum during your holiday travels, please note that the museum will be closed on the days listed below, so that staff and volunteers can enjoy time with their family and friends. Dates & times closed: Thursday, December 20, beginning at 12:00 p.m. Monday, December […]
Continue readingLanding Party a success!
A great time was had by all! The Landing Party, held on November 17, 2012 to welcome back to the museum the 1/40-scale test models of the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft and Space Shuttle from their trip to Los Angeles aboard NASA’s full-scale Shuttle Carrier Aircraft was a great success. The party […]
Continue readingMiss Shirley 360
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 […]
Continue readingLanding 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 […]
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