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New Addition: Don Chapman’s helicopter
The National Model Aviation Museum is proud to have just received Don Chapman’s Schluter Heli-Boy 222 RC helicopter. The helicopter was donated by the Vintage Helicopter Association/IRCHA. Don...
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The Reed Falcon RC model airplane at the 1984 Tournament of Champions
Steve Rojecki, flying an RC model airplane version of a Reed Falcon, won the 1984 Tournament of Champions. Located in Las Vegas, Nevada, the championship was sponsored by Circus Circus Hotel and...
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Cliff Riedel’s Stinson Tri-Motor Reunion
For about three years in the late 1960s friends Cliff Riedel and Chet Lanzo worked on building a Stinson Tri-Motor RC model. The completed model was shown at Toledo for several years before being...
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New Addition: Heli-Baby RC Helicopter
Schluter’s Heli-Baby was one of the first RC helicopter kits on the market. This particular Heli-Baby, which is complete and partially assembled, was purchased in the mid-1960s by Arthur R. Pelous....
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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...
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Taurus in Real Flight 7
Have you ever wanted to know what it would be like to fly Ed Kazmirski’s Taurus? Well, wonder no longer. Thanks to the work of Fly_electric, a digital version of the Taurus is now available to...
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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...
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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...
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New 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...
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New 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...
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The 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...
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New 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...
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New 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...
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New 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...
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#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,...
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Project 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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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...
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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...
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New 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...
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New 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...
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