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530.046 - They Flew the Bendix Race: The History of the Competition for the Bendix Trophy
Dwiggins, Don
Record Type: Library
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Application - 1941
Application for model airplane meet sanction, letterhead printing at top: "ACADEMY OF MODEL AERONAUTICS, A DIVISION OF THE NATIONAL AERONAUTIC ASSOCIATION, NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS: THE WILLARD HOTEL, WASHINGTON, D.C...." . Printed title below: "APPLICATION FORM FOR SANCTION OF MODEL PLANE MEET", circa 1941. Information requested on form: Official title of meet, city, state, meet date, building/field name, sponsor name, sponsor's guarantor, even...
Record Type: Archives
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Application, Registration - 1946
Application for display booth at the "NATIONAL MODEL AIRPLANE MEET" (Nats), Wichita, Kansas, 1946. Listed at bottom left "Return to: R.P. Owinn..." The 1946 Nats was held Thursday, August 29 to Monday, September 2 in Wichita, Kansas. (Registration and meetings on August 29.) Per the official 1946 Nats program, Nats HQ and Indoor Free Flight was at the Wichita Forum, Rise off Water was at Crestview Lake, Radio Control and Control Line was at...
Record Type: Archives
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Badge - 1946
Badge, paper press badge, printed on front side: "NATIONAL MODEL AIRPLANE MEET, PRESS, WICHITA, KANSAS", handwritten on front side: "AL LEWIS - BEACON", handwritten on back side: "Frontier Rm - [Lassern?]". The 1946 Nats was held Thursday, August 29 to Monday, September 2 in Wichita, Kansas. (Registration and meetings on August 29.) Per the official 1946 Nats program, Nats HQ and Indoor Free Flight was at the Wichita Forum, Rise off Water w...
Record Type: Archives
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Booklet - 1935
Booklet (6 stapled pages), titled "Model Airplane Building Contest (A Real Activity for Real Boys)", with "suggestions prepared by the National Aeronautics Commission of The American Legion" (page 1) for contest organization and rules, National Model Airplane Building Contest, 1935.
Record Type: Archives
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Booklet - 1937
Booklet, results (labeled "Official Records") for various events at the National Championship Model Airplane Meet (Nats), 1937. Based on the condition of the first page, this packet could have had a cover that is now missing. Only first page of results booklet A2025.02.55 has been scanned. The 1937 Nats was held July 7 to 12 in Detroit, Michigan. Although some original material from the 1937 Nats advertises it as the 10th Nats, this Nats...
Record Type: Archives
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Booklet - 1938
Booklet, results (labeled "Official Records") for various events at the National Championship Model Airplane Meet (Nats), 1938. Printed on blue cover: "ELEVENTH NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP MODEL AIRPLANE CONTEST, UNDER DIRECTION AND SUPERVISION OF THE EXCHANGE CLUB OF DETROIT, DETROIT, MICHIGAN, JULY - 6 - 9 - 1938, OFFICIAL RECORDS, SANCTIONED BY THE NATIONAL AERONAUTIC ASSOCIATION, INDOOR EVENTS GROSSE ILE HANGAR, OUTDOOR EVENTS, WAYNE COUNTY AIRPORT...
Record Type: Archives
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Card, Identification - 1940
Assignment cards, five paper cards stapled together, identifying contestant Frank Moss, contestant number 795, and his assigned competition events, groups, dates, and field headquarters number at the 1940 Nats. Card 1: Senior class, Group 5, July 2, 1940, Moffett event, Pit 5 Card 2: Senior class, Group 6, July 4, 1940, A Gas event, Pit 6 Card 3: Senior class, Group 2, July 6, 1940, B Gas event, Pit 2 Card 4: Senior class, Group 3, July 4, ...
Record Type: Archives
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Certificate - 1949 Circa
Blank certificate, includes airplane front profile image and PAA logo, printed on certificate: "Know All Men by These Presents That _______ has personally built a miniature airplane completely successful in meeting all official requirements for free-flight competition in the PAA-LOAD EVENT FOR MODEL AIRPLANES...", Pan American World Airways System, circa 1949.
Record Type: Archives
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Color slide - 1972 July 22 or 23
Color slide, unknown people surrounding a contestant (presumably) wearing number "5" marker and holding two Pepsi bottles, outdoors, handwritten on cardboard frame "255", stamped on cardboard frame: "17", "AUG72R10", Akara, Turkey, July 22 or 23, 1972 From notes with slides: "AP 201 - 250, STEARMAN 6-70: DAHLGREN, D.C.R.C. FIELDS. RECORD TRIALS 9-70 FAIRCHILD SPRING 71 - ANKARA 4-72, AP 251 - 300, TURKISH NATS 7-72 ETIMESGUT + ERGAZI FLYING 19...
Record Type: Archives
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Color slide - 1972 July 22 or 23
Color slide, unknown people at model airplane nationals in Turkey, with tent and score board, outdoors, handwritten on cardboard frame "ERGAZI TURKISH NATIONALS, July 22, 23 1972 Akara", "250", stamped on cardboard frame: "10", "AUG72R10", Akara, Turkey, July 22 or 23, 1972 From notes with slides: "AP 201 - 250, STEARMAN 6-70: DAHLGREN, D.C.R.C. FIELDS. RECORD TRIALS 9-70 FAIRCHILD SPRING 71 - ANKARA 4-72, AP 251 - 300, TURKISH NATS 7-72 ETIME...
Record Type: Archives
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Color slide - 1972 July 22 or 23
Color slide, two unknown people with model airplanes, at model airplane nationals in Turkey, outdoors, handwritten on cardboard frame "253", stamped on cardboard frame: "16", "AUG72R10", Akara, Turkey, July 22 or 23, 1972 From notes with slides: "AP 201 - 250, STEARMAN 6-70: DAHLGREN, D.C.R.C. FIELDS. RECORD TRIALS 9-70 FAIRCHILD SPRING 71 - ANKARA 4-72, AP 251 - 300, TURKISH NATS 7-72 ETIMESGUT + ERGAZI FLYING 1972. ADANA FUN-FLI - D.C.R.C. N...
Record Type: Archives
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Color slide - 1972 July 22 or 23
Color slide, unknown people at model airplane nationals in Turkey, with three tents, outdoors, handwritten on cardboard frame "THK NATS 251", stamped on cardboard frame: "9", "AUG72R10", Akara, Turkey, July 22 or 23, 1972 From notes with slides: "AP 201 - 250, STEARMAN 6-70: DAHLGREN, D.C.R.C. FIELDS. RECORD TRIALS 9-70 FAIRCHILD SPRING 71 - ANKARA 4-72, AP 251 - 300, TURKISH NATS 7-72 ETIMESGUT + ERGAZI FLYING 1972. ADANA FUN-FLI - D.C.R.C. N...
Record Type: Archives
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Color slide - 1972 July 22 or 23
Color slide, four unknown people, one holding model, at model airplane nationals in Turkey, outdoors, handwritten on cardboard frame "252", stamped on cardboard frame: "12", "AUG72R10", Akara, Turkey, July 22 or 23, 1972 From notes with slides: "AP 201 - 250, STEARMAN 6-70: DAHLGREN, D.C.R.C. FIELDS. RECORD TRIALS 9-70 FAIRCHILD SPRING 71 - ANKARA 4-72, AP 251 - 300, TURKISH NATS 7-72 ETIMESGUT + ERGAZI FLYING 1972. ADANA FUN-FLI - D.C.R.C. NA...
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Color slide - 1972 July 22 or 23
Color slide, Kevual Yergun and Husnu Tekinay at model airplane nationals in Turkey, outdoors, handwritten on cardboard frame "Kevual Yergun THK Husnu Tekinay", "254", stamped on cardboard frame: "15", "AUG72R10", Akara, Turkey, July 22 or 23, 1972 From notes with slides: "AP 201 - 250, STEARMAN 6-70: DAHLGREN, D.C.R.C. FIELDS. RECORD TRIALS 9-70 FAIRCHILD SPRING 71 - ANKARA 4-72, AP 251 - 300, TURKISH NATS 7-72 ETIMESGUT + ERGAZI FLYING 1972. ...
Record Type: Archives
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Color slide - 1973 July
Color slide, two people with model airplane and transmitter, outdoors, handwritten on cardboard frame "JIM MARTIN BUZZED EVERYONE", "299", stamped on cardboard frame: "12", "AUG73R12", D.C.R.C. meet, Dahlgren, VA, July 1973. From notes with slides: "AP 201 - 250, STEARMAN 6-70: DAHLGREN, D.C.R.C. FIELDS. RECORD TRIALS 9-70 FAIRCHILD SPRING 71 - ANKARA 4-72, AP 251 - 300, TURKISH NATS 7-72 ETIMESGUT + ERGAZI FLYING 1972. ADANA FUN-FLI - D.C.R.C...
Record Type: Archives
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Color slide - 1973 July
Color slide, people with model airplanes (some in judges shirts), one model has snoopy decal on tail, one model has "345" on wing, outdoors, handwritten on cardboard frame "295", stamped on cardboard frame: "8", "AUG73R12", D.C.R.C. meet, Dahlgren, VA, July 1973. From notes with slides: "AP 201 - 250, STEARMAN 6-70: DAHLGREN, D.C.R.C. FIELDS. RECORD TRIALS 9-70 FAIRCHILD SPRING 71 - ANKARA 4-72, AP 251 - 300, TURKISH NATS 7-72 ETIMESGUT + ERGA...
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Color slide - 1973 July
Color slide, four people in foreground (including George Pickrell and Bob Hale) with model airplane on ground, "AMA 10402" on wing, people and tents in background, outdoors, handwritten on cardboard frame "HALE + JANETTE - PICKRELL", "294", stamped on cardboard frame: "7", "AUG73R12", D.C.R.C. meet, Dahlgren, VA, July 1973. From notes with slides: "AP 201 - 250, STEARMAN 6-70: DAHLGREN, D.C.R.C. FIELDS. RECORD TRIALS 9-70 FAIRCHILD SPRING 71 -...
Record Type: Archives
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Color slide - 1973 July
Color slide, model airplane on ground, "AMA 1111" and AMA logo decal on wing, outdoors, handwritten on cardboard frame "297", stamped on cardboard frame: "10", "AUG73R12", D.C.R.C. meet, Dahlgren, VA, July 1973. From notes with slides: "AP 201 - 250, STEARMAN 6-70: DAHLGREN, D.C.R.C. FIELDS. RECORD TRIALS 9-70 FAIRCHILD SPRING 71 - ANKARA 4-72, AP 251 - 300, TURKISH NATS 7-72 ETIMESGUT + ERGAZI FLYING 1972. ADANA FUN-FLI - D.C.R.C. NAT. CAP. M...
Record Type: Archives
