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 […]
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Debut 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 […]
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AMA member marks an anniversary with model building project
For the past two years, Scott Cheslik has been spending an inordinate amount of time with Miss Shirley, but his wife Sharon doesn’t mind. Miss Shirley, after all, is a model airplane. Not just any model airplane, though. The blue and yellow beauty with the more than eight-foot wingspan, which […]
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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