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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A fascinated visitor
This little boy, Aiden, was fascinated by his visit to the National Model Aviation Museum today. Hopefully he’s going to grow up to be a modeler! Come visit and find something that fascinates you!
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 readingControl Line 75th Anniversary
On Friday, July 20, 2012 noted Control Line Historian Charles Mackey, along with special guest Ms. Shirley St. Clair will be presenting a program celebrating the 75th anniversary of Oba St. Clair’s Control Line achievements. A reproduction of the Miss Shirley, Oba St. Clair’s first Control Line model flown in […]
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AMA and Model Aviation History Moments August
Week 4 – August 25, 2011: The control line bell-crank and patent # 2292416 Control Line (CL) model aviation can trace its roots back to the early tethered experiments of Victor Tatin, whose compressed-air powered model was flown round-the-pole in 1879. In the 1920s and 1930s aeromodelers began to take […]
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AMA and Model Aviation History Moments June
Week 5- June 30, 2011: Nats Momentos In honor of the beginning of outdoor Nats this week, we are featuring a few patches and pins from former competitions. We hope you enjoy looking at these small mementos from the past. 1. 2. 1. Pin, 1976 Nats, Dayton, Ohio (50th anniversary […]
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AMA and Model Aviation and History Moments January
Willis C. Brown, 1st AMA President
Elected to serve in 1936 by Council; Elected to serve in 1937 by membership ballot. Brown, Willis and Dick Black, The History of the Academy of Model Aeronautics. Washington DC; Academy of Model Aeronautics, c. 1967, Pg# 7.
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