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Airplane, model - Silhouette Model
Reproduction of an Douglas SBD Dauntless Identification Model, done in a silhouette style. This is a static model carved from balsa wood using the plans from a Comet Build for Victory kit. It is painted matte black. Similar models were used to train service personnel in how to recognize aircraft during WWII.
Record Type: Object
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Airplane Model - F4F Wildcat Solid Model
Grumman F4F Wildcat static solid scale model carved from balsa by Richard Sprague in the late 1940s.
Record Type: Object
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Airplane Model - P-39 Airacobra Solid Model
Bell P-39 Airacobra static solid scale model carved from balsa by Richard Sprague in the late 1940s.
Record Type: Object
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Flyer - 1930s-1940s circa
Flyer, balsa balloon wheels and brass bushings, Super Model Aircraft Company, Cicero, IL, circa 1930s-1940s
Record Type: Archives
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Flyer - 1930s Circa
Flyer, wholesale price list - propellers, Japanese tissue, bamboo paper, propeller shafts, celluloid motor and cowl ring, celluloid motors, Whitfield Paper Works Inc., 12-16 Vestry St., New York, NY, circa 1930s
Record Type: Archives
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Form, blank - 1934
Blank form, entry blank, reads: "JUNIOR BIRDMEN OF AMERICA [duplicated], OFFICIAL ENTRY BLANK, JUNIOR BIRDMEN MODEL PLANE DERBY, Saturday, July 7th, This entry blank must be filled in by all Junior Birdmen members desiring to compete in the Junior Birdmen Model Plane Derby and placed in the mails [sic] on or before midnight, Tuesday, July 3rd... [] ALL-BALSA GLIDER [] SINGLE STICK [] DOUBLE STICK..." [Note: Entry blank is tucked inside cover p...
Record Type: Archives
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Kit, Model - Selley Junior Kit
Selley Junior Flying Model Airplane, 14 Inch Wing span Construction Kit to build a Free Flight model airplane. In original packaging, a yellow cardboard box, and complete with plans, tissue, print wood and small vial of dope.
Record Type: Object
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Letter - 1935 April 19
Form letter, about bamboo paper, tissue, and balsa wood veneer, addressed from G. Happ, Whitfield Paper Works Inc., 12-16 Vestry St., New York, NY, addressed to "Gentlemen", stamped April 19, 1935
Record Type: Archives
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M020.036 - Book of Model Airplanes: The Theory and Practice of the Science of Aeronautics and their Application to Model Airplane Building, Containing Many Full Size Plans and Handy Model Kinks!
Bibichkow, William
Record Type: Library
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Model Airplane - A-frame Pusher
An, A-frame pusher, rubber-powered Free Flight model. Built by Teen Becksted this model is made with two stick fuselages forming a wide "A" shape. The 14" wing is placed far forward; red insignia on wing. This model was built for speed contests and could go about 70mph covering 176' in 2 seconds. It was flown with 30 strands of 1/8" rubber.
Record Type: Object
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Model Airplane - Bostonian "Pup" FF Model
Bostonian class Free-Flight model airplane. Balsa wood frame construction covered in tissue. Yellow fuselage with orange wings and stabilizers. Clear plastic cockpit, black nose and top of fuselage in front of cockpit, black spinner and plastic prop.
Record Type: Object
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Model Airplane - Curtiss Jenny RC Model
Curtiss Jenny Electric Radio Control Model Airplane. Laser cut balsa wood pieces, covered in clear yellow plastic film. "2805 AS MS Kelly Field" on both sides of fuselage.
Record Type: Object
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Model Airplane - Fokker Eindecker III FF Model
Fokker Eindecker III, Peanut Scale Free Flight Model Airplane. Natural wood color with brown German crosses (faded black) on both wings and both sides of fuselage, vertical fin altered to parallelogram shape. Two-dimensional pilot cut off below chest with yellow shirt, scarf, brown cap and goggles. Rubber-powered, 12.5" wingspan
Record Type: Object
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Model Airplane - Ike FF Model
Howard "Ike" Racer, a rubber-powered Free Flight model airplane. Model was built from a Cleveland kit by Richard Sprague in the late 1940s. It is built with a paper covering over a balsa framework with black decals. There is some damage including missing cockpit detail, canopy and prop, as well as tears in the covering.
Record Type: Object
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Model Airplane - Loening Amphibian FF Model
Loening Amphibian OL-9 Free Flight Scale model airplane, powered by a rubber motor. Traditionally built of balsa wood and tissue by Fulton Hungerford in the late 1950s. Restored by Ed Toner in the early 1980s.
Record Type: Object
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Model Airplane - Nieuport Scout XVII FF Model
Nieuport Scout XVII, Peanut Scale Free Flight Free Flight model airplane. Yellowed and white wooden model with blue front piece. French flag colors on rudder. Biplane with blue, white, and red concentric circles on top of left wing. Rubber-powered with 13" wingspan.
Record Type: Object
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Model Airplane - No-Cal P-51 Mustang
No-Cal P-51 Mustang, a Free Flight rubber-powered model flown in Flying Aces Club events. The model features a profile fuselage and is made of balsa wood and covered in doped dark green tissue. Scale-like markings.
Record Type: Object
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Model Airplane - Prototype AMA Alpha
Early prototype of the AMA Alpha designed by Tom Sanders. Balsa wood motor stick, with thin sheeted balsa wings and tail. Wing is square, slightly swept back wing with slight dihedral and attaches to the motor stick via a protruding stick held on by rubber bands. Tail surfaces are small and very square. Unpainted balsa wood, trimmed in red along all leading edges.
Record Type: Object
