This is the fourth post in a week-long series celebrating National Preservation Week. NMAM blog posts in this series will discuss how to preserve your own modeling history. I’m hoping to do a step-by-step guide to how the NMAM wraps and hangs model airplanes sometime during the summer of 2013. In the […]
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Preservation Week Day 3: Preserving Model Airplanes
This is the third post in a week-long series celebrating National Preservation Week. NMAM blog posts in this series will discuss how to preserve your own modeling history. Preserving model airplanes can be tricky. The materials involved in building a model deteriorate at different rates and methods. They can be […]
Continue readingPreservation Week Day 2: Preserving Pictures and Documents
This is the second post in a week-long series celebrating National Preservation Week. NMAM blog posts in this series will discuss how to preserve your own modeling history. The instructions for your first RC system. Your first AMA membership card. Photographs of the trophy presentation for your Nats win. The […]
Continue readingPreservation Week Day 1: Preserving Stories
This is the first post in a week-long series celebrating National Preservation Week. NMAM blog posts in this series will discuss how to preserve your own modeling history. Preserving your stories is the single most important thing you can do to preserve your photographs, model airplanes and the other objects […]
Continue readingHall of Fame Exhibit Installation, Part 3
More progress on the AMA Model Aviation Hall of Fame exhibit in the museum lobby (see previous progress in part one and part two). The wall & ceiling space has been painted and the background graphics are up. On 4/10/2013, Michael Smith hangs the background exhibit panels for the new […]
Continue readingNational Preservation Week: Introduction
You’ve been modeling a long time. Over the years, the model airplanes, pictures, old flight equipment and club t-shirts have built up and are currently piled in your garage. You’ve got more modeling stories than you can remember. What’s going to happen to all of it next year, in five […]
Continue readingMadman Yates and his Madman model
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 […]
Continue readingA 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 readingHall of Fame Exhibit Installation, part 2
There’s been some progress on the AMA Model Aviation Hall of Fame exhibit in the museum lobby (read more on this in part one here). We’ve been working on getting the graphics to print and size correctly (which did not make exciting photographs). Now that they are correct, though, here’s the finished and […]
Continue readingMuseum 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 […]
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