Larry Kruse called Tom Hallman’s Peanut Scale FF model of an Airco DH-2 “arguably the most perfect Peanut Scale model ever produced.” Extensively researched and detailed, the model won the Walt Mooney Award for the best Peanut Scale model at the 2000 Flying Aces Club Nationals. Since 2000, the model […]
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New Addition: Formula One Pylon Racing Trophy
The last competition for RC Formula One Pylon Racing was held at the 1999 Nats. After the competition, the National Points Champion perpetual trophy for the event was retired. The N.M.P.R.A. (National Miniature Pylon Racing Association) recently donated the trophy to the museum.
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New Addition: Smog Hog RC Model Airplane
Howard Bonner’s Smog Hog, which won the 1956 Multi-Class RC Nats, was one of the first multi-channel aerobatic RC models and helped pave the way for later RC Pattern aircraft. With this history in mind, the museum accepted a Smog Hog built by Giuseppe “Beppe” Fascione. Beppe’s Smog Hog won […]
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New Addition: New Jersey Clubs Memorabilia
Thanks to Joel M. Levine we now have two more clubs, the West Jersey Radio Flyers and the Central Jersey Radio Control Club, represented in the museum’s collection. Joel was a member of both clubs in the early 1960s before he decided to focus on full scale aviation. By the […]
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New Addition: Aardvark RC model airplane
How much weight can a model airplane, powered by an OS .40 FP engine, lift, carry, and land with – all without crashing? That’s what the Skagit RC Club in Washington State wanted to find out. In the late 1990s they created a contest challenging their fellow modelers to design, […]
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New Addition: MP Jet .061 Diesel
This MP Jet .061 diesel engine was recently donated in Memory of Raymond E. Thibodeau. We’re pleased to add this to our engine collection. Thank you! In addition to the engine, two books were also added to the museum’s library collection: ————————————————————————— For more information on the National Model Aviation […]
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New Addition: SEV Rat Racer
This CL Rat Racer model airplane dates to the mid-1950s and was one of a series developed and flown by the SEV Special Team. The team consisted of Dave Eden, Floyd Speer Schneider, and R.J. Van Den Berg. This model was recently donated to the museum In Memory of the […]
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New Addition: Turbax Ducted Fan
A Turbax Ducted Fan Unit has been on the museum’s wish list for a few years. Geoff Sanders recently saw the list and donated a Turbax III ducted fan unit that previously belonged to late modeler Charlie Chambers. Thanks, Geoff, for helping to grow the museum’s collection! ————————————————————————— For more […]
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New Addition: RC Berkeley Bootstraps
John A. Cianciolo didn’t start building this RC Berkeley Bootstraps, but he did finish building it. That’s because he received it as a partially-completed kit from a guy who lived near the old Kansas City flying field. John had every reason to thank the gentleman for the gift, because John, […]
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New Addition: Restored Bleriot XI
Wings ripped and drooping, this Bleriot XI, probably built from an Ideal kit in the mid-1920s, was pulled out of someone’s attic and put on the auction block in the mid-1990s. There the wife of John J. Phillips saw it, purchased it, and brought it home to her husband as […]
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