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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleNew Addition: Electrolyte ARF kit
The museum is flying fast with this Electrolyte micro EDF ARF kit by HobbyKing. Donated by the model’s designer, Bret Becker, the kit is an almost exact replica of the Electrolyte model airplane...
View ArticleNew Addition: R-Bee-110
Model Helicopters were gaining popularity in the mid-1970s and helicopter plans and kits were appearing in large numbers. One of these was the R-Bee-110, designed by Bob Benson. Noted in the preface...
View ArticleThe adventure begins for the RC SCA and Space Shuttle test models
Last year, the museum announced that the 1/40-scale RC Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft and Space Shuttle test models were going on loan to Space Center Houston to be exhibited in one of the...
View ArticleNew Addition: Frank B. Baker’s 2006 B-24
In 1966 RC-flying a multi-engine scale aircraft seemed impossible. Frank B. Baker with his 60″ wingspan model that “looked like a B-24” proved this wrong. The B-24 look a like was powered by four Cox...
View ArticleNew Addition: Electron
Flying Models published its first article about an RC model in December 1950. The article, written by Norman Rosenstock, featured Norm’s Electron, a model designed and built by Norm in 1949...
View ArticleNew Addition: Midwest Esquire
The Midwest Esquire was a popular radio control model in the mid-1950s. Herb Ziegler found this excellent example of one at an estate sale and donated it to the museum. A Midwest Esquire RC model...
View Article#PatchTuesday, June 2017, week 1
It is Radio Control day here on #PatchTuesday. So grab your transmitter and fly in Berne, or Bakersfield! Patch, 1987 RC Helicopter World Champs, National Model Aviation Museum Permanent Collection,...
View ArticleProject Snapshot Snapshots
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Luther Hux took stunning aerial photographs from a camera mounted in a model aircraft. The first model he built for aerial photography, Snapshot 1, dates to 1977 and...
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