{"id":1998,"date":"2014-10-30T14:54:30","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T14:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/?p=1998"},"modified":"2014-10-30T14:54:30","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T14:54:30","slug":"new-addition-restored-bleriot-xi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/2014\/10\/30\/new-addition-restored-bleriot-xi\/","title":{"rendered":"New Addition: Restored Bleriot XI"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 a project.\u00a0 John then proceeded to take the time to study the model before beginning a month-long restoration project.<\/p>\n

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John J. Phillips took this photograph of the Bleriot XI before he began its restoration. Credit: National Model Aviation Museum, Catalog file of 2014.47, photo by John J. Phillips.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This process included re-making the wings entirely based on templates he made from the original, cleaning and stabilizing the wood, and carving a pilot dummy.<\/p>\n

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The restored Bleriot XI sits next to the mess of the original wings. Credit: National Model Aviation Museum, Catalog file of 2014.47, photo by John J. Phillips.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the end, the model probably looks better than it did when first built.<\/p>\n

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The completed, restored Bleriot XI sits in front one of the sources John J. Phillips used during the project. Credit: National Model Aviation Museum, Catalog file of 2014.47, photo by John J. Phillips.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Bleriot was recently donated to the museum as a bequest of John J. Phillips.\u00a0 Thank you, John, for helping to grow the museum’s collection.<\/p>\n

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The Bleriot XI, wing templates and originals wings on the processing table at the National Model Aviation Museum.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,54,47,121,122],"tags":[246,123,160,251],"class_list":["post-1998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-early-model-aviation","category-free-flight","category-museum","category-new-addition","category-thank-you","tag-free-flight","tag-new-addition-2","tag-rubber-powered","tag-thank-you"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998","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=1998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2003,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions\/2003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}