{"id":1141,"date":"2014-02-20T16:25:30","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T16:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2014-01-03T17:02:12","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T17:02:12","slug":"don-burnhams-1930-a-frame-pusher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/2014\/02\/20\/don-burnhams-1930-a-frame-pusher\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Burnham’s 1930 A-frame pusher"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the age of 14, Donald C. Burnham<\/a> won the 1929 Junior Division, Outdoor competition, at the 1929 Nats in Detroit.\u00a0\u00a0 He won a trophy, $200 cash, and a trip to Canada and Europe.\u00a0 Besides these perks, he also published his A-frame pusher design in Carl H. Claudy\u2019s 1931 book Prize Winners\u2019 Book of Model Airplanes<\/i>.\u00a0 As a contributor, his copy of the book was signed by Carl.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Prize<\/a>
The cover of Carl H. Claudy’s Prize Winners’ Book of Model Airplanes.<\/em> Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1931<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Signature<\/a>
As a contributor to Carl Claudy’s book on prize winning model aircraft, Don Burnham received a signed copy of the book<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This wasn\u2019t the first time, though, that Don and Carl corresponded.\u00a0 In 1930, Carl published the Beginner\u2019s Book of Model Airplanes (They Fly!).<\/i>\u00a0 Don owned a copy, his name proudly noted inside the front cover.\u00a0 He must have enjoyed the book, because also glued into the front cover is a letter from Carl to Don dated October 22, 1930.\u00a0 The letter thanks Don for his kind words regarding the book and notes, \u201cI wish I might have the pleasure of inscribing your copy; failing that, perhaps you will slip this letter under the cover and let me thus vicariously sign it!\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Beginner's<\/a>
The cover of Beginner’s Book of Model Airplanes (They Fly!).<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Letter<\/a>
The letter from Carl Claudy to Don Burnham is glued inside the front cover, as Carl asked Don to do. The letter closes with, \u201cMay your next model fly farther and longer than all the rest!\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The letter closes with, \u201cMay your next model fly farther and longer than all the rest!\u201d<\/p>\n

Don\u2019s success with his next model led to it being published in Carl\u2019s next book, which led to Carl signing his next book directly.\u00a0 Funny how life works out, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

\"D.C.<\/a>
Don Burnham’s name listed twice inside the cover of Prize Winners’ Book of Model Airplanes<\/em>. The first in the upper corner showing his ownership. The second on the library donation label.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"A<\/a>
Reproduction of Don Burnham’s 1930 twin pusher built by Vic Cunnyngham, Sr. in the mid-1990s.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Vic Cunnyngham, Sr<\/a>. met Don Burnham at a contest in the early 1990s.\u00a0 Vic researched and built a reproduction of Don\u2019s 1929 A-frame pusher and had it authorized by Don in the mid-1990s.\u00a0 Vic. donated the model\u00a0to the museum in 1996.\u00a0 Two years later, Don donated his boyhood books to the library.<\/p>\n

\"Good<\/a>
Bert Pond signed the floats, indicating the reproduction was accurate.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Good<\/a>
Don Burnham signed the A-frame pusher, indicating the design was accurate.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Thanks to Vic Cunnyngham, Jr.<\/a> for sharing memories of his father with me.<\/p>\n

For more on Don’s winning design, please read the History Preserved column of March 2014’s Model Aviation<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the age of 14, Donald C. Burnham won the 1929 Junior Division, Outdoor competition, at the 1929 Nats in Detroit.\u00a0\u00a0 He won a trophy, $200 cash, and a trip to Canada and Europe.\u00a0 Besides these perks, he also published his A-frame pusher design in Carl H. Claudy\u2019s 1931 book […]<\/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":[46,54,47,1],"tags":[56,48,246,49,50],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-early-model-aviation","category-free-flight","category-museum","category-uncategorized","tag-artifact","tag-book","tag-free-flight","tag-library-2","tag-museum-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","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=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1146,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions\/1146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}