During the early 1970s, official Nats events did not include RC Soaring, so the S.O.A.R. club held their own Nats for the discipline These were popular, and multiple launching winches were needed to keep up with pilot demand. S.O.A.R. club co-founder Dan Pruss designed a winch and reached out to […]
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New Addition: Digitron Transmitter
This Babcock Digitran transmitter and Yankee Air Pirate patch were both donated to the museum in memory of Ron Zwicker (1944-2017) by the Zwicker Family. Thank you for helping to grow the museum’s collection! ————————————————————————— For more information on the National Model Aviation Museum, including our location, hours and admission […]
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New Addition: Blue McCoy 29
McCoy red head engines are pretty famous, but did you know that the made a blue head as well? In 1966 they produced the McCoy 29 Custom RC glow engine with a blue painted head. Thanks to Robert W. Schmidt for donating one to the collection! ————————————————————————— For more information […]
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New Addition: Spirit SC
The 1990s were a period of experimentation and changes at the international level of Radio Control Pattern competition (F3A). One of the experimenters was Steve Helms, who with the help of Masaki Hirada, designed the Spirit SC in 1993. The Spirit incorporated several of the new ideas into its design. […]
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New Addition: CL Pesco Special
In the late 1950s, the Gulf Hawks Club of Northern Florida revived the Thompson Trophy Air Races by racing 1/12 scale CL profile models of famous racers. After a description of the event was published in American Aircraft Modeler in September 1959, this form of modeling caught on and, after […]
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New Addition: Space Bugs T-shirt
The Estate of Edwin L. Fulle sent in this cute Space Bugs club T-shirt. Thank you for helping to grow the collection! ————————————————————————— For more information on the National Model Aviation Museum, including our location, hours and admission fees visit: www.modelaircraft.org/museum
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New Addition: FAC Flag
The Flying Aces Club, an organization dedicated to stick and tissue model airplanes, holds their own Nats contest every other year. To mark the second FAC Nats in 1980, Dorothy Moses, wife of FAC member Jack Moses, created this flag. At each subsequent FAC Nats this flag was flown with […]
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New Addition: 1980s Frequency Scanner
Flying Field safety is important, which involves making sure that the radio frequencies in use are clear. To that end, it is good to add this Tandy Corp. Realistic PRO-2004 frequency scanner, used by the Northwest Radio Control Club, AMA #261 (Arlington Heights, IL) to the collection. But, truthfully, the […]
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New Addition: Radio Systems
Two radio systems have been recently added to the collection. Walter C. Throne AMA# 408L donated an ACL system, which was designed and manufactured by some engineers from IBM. Another AMA member donated a Heathkit GDA-1205S system in In Memory of Gerald Linebaugh. Neither of these particular systems had been […]
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New Addition: Cassella’s Trophies
In 2015, Tom Cassella donated his grandfather Norman Cassella’s Pulsar RC model to the museum. Flying the Pulsar, Norm won the first IMAC event at the 1977 Nats (among many other wins). Some of the Pulsar’s other wins (and one of Cassella’s Steen Skybolt) – as well as the development […]
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