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Coin, Commemorative - F2C Championship Medallion
Medallion created to honor the 20th anniversary of Herb Stockton and Don Jehlik winning the 1966 and 1968 Control Line World Championships for Control Line Team Race (FAI designation F2C). One side shows FAI logo, the other a raised profile of an eagle in flight and the proclamation F2C World Champions. Four dates are given 1962, 1966, 1968, and 1988.
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Collage - Project Snapshot Photographs
Framed collage showing photographs taken by Luther Hux while flying Project Snapshot models 1, II and III. Photographs include covers from the magazine Model Aviation, a postcard of National Geographic's headquarters, the retired aircraft carrier Yorktown, Kirby Crawford's Gulfhawk, and the RC Skydiver Christopher.
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Engine - Baby Engine Reproduction
3D printed reproduction of a Baby Engine (spark). Originals were manufactured by the Eckert Brothers and later the Baby Engine Company, both of Samford, CT, beginning in 1911 until roughly 1914. Original was a one cylinder, two cycle that weighed 7.5 pounds.
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Engine - Micro Ignition Engine
Micro 19 ignition engine. Installed in Roy Mayes' 1939 Inverted Control Line model.
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Model Airplane - 1939 Wakefield Model
Reproduction of Dick Korda's Wakefield model (Free Flight), which won the 1939 Wakefield Competition.Traditional balsa wood framework covered in red tissue paper. Cabin fuselage, high wing with slight dihedral. Rubber-powered. 44" wingspan.
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Model Airplane - Biplane Bomber FF Model
Original Ritchie-Wertz Company Biplane Bomber (Rite Flyer #20) Free Flight Model. Balsa wood cabin fuselage (hollow) with flat sheeted balsa wings. Twin propellers set in elaborate wire prop guards that also form part of landing gear. Fuselage is red, wings are yellow. Damage to tail of fuselage and missing one wing. Rubber powered.
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Model Airplane - Cecil Peoli FF Racer
Free Flight A-frame twin pusher, a reproduction of Cecil Peoli's Racer. Wooden "A" frame raised on wooden skids. Six-sided canard angled off the top of the frame, towards the tip. Six-sided wing above the landing gear. Canard and wing covered in light tan doped Japanese tissue. Frame wrapped in black wire at structural joints.
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Model Airplane - Fleming-Williams FF Model
Fleming-Williams Free Flight model, reproduction, a rubber-powered pusher model with twin pusher props. Single stick fuselage, strung wire supports. small C-shaped wing sent well back and a triangular tail - tissue covering is a tannish off-white.
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Model Airplane - Great Lakes Trainer
Radio Control Scale Great Lakes Trainer 2TIA built by Dr. Harold Auerhan. Biplane with cabin fuselage, two open cockpits. Traditional balsa wood framework covered in monokote. Cream fuselage with orange nose, wings and tail, aircraft number NC-5182. Won 3rd place in RC Scale Open class at the 1967 Nats. Dr. Auerhan continued to fly the model until about 1989.
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Model Airplane - Inverted CL Model
Reproduction of Roy Mayes' Control Line that flew inverted in 1939. Traditional balsa construction, covered in silver and red tissue. Boxy fuselage with high wing that has no dihedral. Model has installed "flip-flop aileron" that Mayes designed to help with inverted flight, as well as a custom-designed fuel tank that maintained pressure while inverted. Installed Micro 19 engine.
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Model Airplane - Knight Twister RC Model
Bill Heger's original Knight Twister Radio Control Aerobatics model, flown at the 1973 National Multiwing Championship and other events. Biplane. Traditionally built balsa wood framework, covered in silkspan. Cream, orange and dark blue. Installed O.S. 60 engine.
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Model Airplane - Kwik-Fli II RC Model
Radio Control Pattern model Kwik-Fli II, originally built and designed by Phil Kraft in 1965. This reproduction was built by Giuseppe "Beppe" Fascione. Traditional balsa wood and covered in orange silkspan with blue insets on wings and stab. Cabin fuselage with covered cockpit; low wing, vertical Stabilizer sits well in front of the elevator on horizontal stabilizer. Installed ENYA 60 II with exhaust baffle.
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Model Airplane - Nobler CL Model
George Aldrich's original Nobler Control Line Stunt model. Mid-wing with I-beam wing construction, no dihedral. Traditional balsa wood framework. Oval-shaped fuselage. Dark blue in color with gold accents. Flown at the 1951 Plymouth Internationals, as well as the 1952 and 1956 National Model Championships. 50" wingspan.
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Model Airplane - Phoenix V RC Pattern Model
Don Lowe's Phoenix V, Radio Control Pattern model airplane, dating to 1970-1973 Model features a low wing with pea gravel cemented to the underside of the starboard wing tip. Covered in a camouflage pattern, with orange on the wing tips, and tips of tail surfaces. "DL" in large white letters on vertical stability. 63" wingspan; Installed O.S. Max.60, has retract landing gear installed. Flown at the 1972 Nats.
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Model Airplane - Project Snapshot RC Model
Project Snapshot 1 Radio Control model, built and flown by Luther Hux from 1977 to 1979. A pusher model with installed H.P. .61 engine, it features a camera that can be moved between two camera bays in the nose. Camera is a Canon Dial 35 II, also referred to as a Canon Dial-a-matic. This was the first in a series of three Project Snapshot models that Luther used for aerial photography. 64" wingspan.
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Model Airplane - Prototype Zipper FF Model
Carl Goldberg's Prototype Zipper Free Flight model with diamond-shaped fuselage, flown at the 1938 Nats and other events. Raised pylon wing with polyhedral, diamond shaped fuselage, original installed Dennymite 56 engine. Traditional balsa wood framework, tan tissue covering. 48" wingspan.
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Model Airplane - Super Sleigh CL Model
Control Line model shaped as Santa's Sleigh, with it set up so it looks like Rudolph is pulling the sleigh. Sleigh bottom serves as the main wing and the reindeer's blanket serves as a front canard. The Cox Babe Bee .049 engine is attached to the front of the sleigh. Vertical fins are provided by the sides of the sleigh and the profile of Santa and his bag of toys. Sleigh is dark green, everything else is appropriately painted. Model designed an...
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Model Glider - The Gobbler RC Sailplane
The Gobbler Model Sailplane designed by Dwight Holley and Fritz Bien and flown at the 1981 RC Soaring (F3B) World Championships. Built of balsa wood and covered in monokote, it is white with red wing tips and fuselage. Slightly boxy fuselage with thick wings, no landing gear or engine. 113.5" wingspan.
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Model Helicopter - Unknown Helicopter
We need help id'ing this helicopter! Model Helicopter, Radio Control, made from metal, pod and boom style. Pod is light gray and has oval shaped cut-outs. very square. pod contains the engine, mechanical gear and RC equipment. Square black blades. Boom is a metal dowel rod with red markings. Tail rotor is white with red and black stripes. Installed 60-size engine, Cyrillic lettering for MAC. Attached plastic fuel tank with orange cap. Engine...
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Multirotor - Blackout Spider Hex "Rat" Drone
Blackout Spider Hex "Rat", hexacopter based on the 290 Blackout Spider Hex design and heavily modified, built and flown by Zoe K. Stumbaugh. 3mm black carbon frame, six H1806-6 2400kv on 5x4 Props Powered by 20amp Afro ESC"s flashed to BLHeli with Medium-High Timings, Active Breaking, and OneShot. This multirotor was flown by Zoe when she won the first AMA-sanctioned FPV race at the Drones Data X Conference in May 2015.
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