{"id":1020,"date":"2013-10-25T12:14:59","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T12:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/?p=1020"},"modified":"2013-10-24T19:58:02","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T19:58:02","slug":"when-you-build-tips-from-the-past-pt-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/2013\/10\/25\/when-you-build-tips-from-the-past-pt-3\/","title":{"rendered":"When you build\u2026 tips from the past pt. 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Air Trails Hobbies for Young Men <\/em>was a popular source for model building information in the 1950s.\u00a0 A monthly \u201cSketchbook\u201d column allowed readers to share original building and flying tips.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Polyhedral Wings<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1021\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1021\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/10\/polyhedralwings-AirTrailsAnnual-1954.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1021 \" alt=\"A diagram shows how to best support the polyhedral joint in a wing frame.\" src=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/10\/polyhedralwings-AirTrailsAnnual-1954-300x212.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/10\/polyhedralwings-AirTrailsAnnual-1954-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/10\/polyhedralwings-AirTrailsAnnual-1954.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1021\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cFinishing Touches,\u201d <em>Air Trails Model Annual 1954<\/em>, pg. 70.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cEasy spar-joining trick for polyhedralled wings \u2013 Ideal for rubber models and light gassies \u2026 no gussets necessary \u2013\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Landing Gear<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1022\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1022\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/10\/shocklandinggear-AirTrailsDec1954.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1022\" alt=\"A diagram showing how to strengthen landing gear.\" src=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/10\/shocklandinggear-AirTrailsDec1954-243x300.jpg\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/10\/shocklandinggear-AirTrailsDec1954-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/10\/shocklandinggear-AirTrailsDec1954.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1022\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cSketchbook,\u201d <em>Air Trails Hobbies for Young Men<\/em>, December 1954, pg. 65.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cShock-absorbing feature added to dural gear on team racers &amp; sport models is development of John Schroeter, Sacramento, Calif.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Building From\u00a0a Kit:<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1023\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1023\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/10\/dopekitsheets-AirTrailsJune54.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1023\" alt=\"A diagram suggesting how to use dope to help strenghthen kit sheets in model kits.\" src=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/10\/dopekitsheets-AirTrailsJune54-300x226.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/10\/dopekitsheets-AirTrailsJune54-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/10\/dopekitsheets-AirTrailsJune54-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/10\/dopekitsheets-AirTrailsJune54.jpg 637w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1023\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cSketchbook,\u201d <em>Air Trails Hobbies for Young Men<\/em>, June 1954, pg. 82.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cTo strengthen and improve die-cut balsa pieces, dope &amp; sand sheets before separating parts suggests John Yedirak, Harnell, N.Y.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These tips are presented honoring <em>Model Aviation<\/em>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.modelaviation.com\/october2013\">October issue<\/a> on scratch building.\u00a0 This is the last post in this series, but feel free to continue the discussion of tried and true building advice in the comments or on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/modelaircraftmuseum\">museum\u2019s Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>p.s. Want to read one of the full articles mentioned above? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.modelaircraft.org\/museum\/whatshere\/research.aspx\">Order an article reprint!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air Trails Hobbies for Young Men was a popular source for model building information in the 1950s.\u00a0 A monthly \u201cSketchbook\u201d column allowed readers to share original building and flying tips.\u00a0 Polyhedral Wings \u201cEasy spar-joining trick for polyhedralled wings \u2013 Ideal for rubber models and light gassies \u2026 no gussets necessary [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,107,108],"tags":[110,50,109,249],"class_list":["post-1020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-museum","category-old-magazines","category-tips-from-the-past","tag-air-trails","tag-museum-2","tag-old-magazines-2","tag-tips-from-the-past"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions\/1039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}