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Contact sheet - 1972 July
Contact sheet, outdoor model airplane flying, National Model Airplane Championships (Nats), Naval Air Station Glenview, IL, July 1972. Handwritten wording on front of contact sheet includes: "23029-23 E-11", "CN or AAM Sr 1st", "CN Sr winner". Wording/numbers on model airplanes in images includes "Air Boss 30880", "69844", "JIM SILHAVY". Stamped on back of contact sheet: "photography by ______ photo - processing by Image [Image, Inc. photographic...
Record Type: Archives
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Contact sheet - 1972 July
Contact sheet, people with their model airplanes, outdoors, National Model Airplane Championships (Nats), Naval Air Station Glenview, IL, July 1972. Handwritten wording on front of contact sheet includes: "23029-28 E-12". Wording/numbers on model airplanes in images includes "TROPICAIRE NC-10826", "EAGLE N35337", "AMA 551", "APEX", "[3985 or 8985]", PISCES NX-616", "PATRIOT". Stamped on back of contact sheet: "photography by ______ photo - proces...
Record Type: Archives
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Contact sheet - 1972 July
Contact sheet, people with their model airplanes, outdoors, National Model Airplane Championships (Nats), Naval Air Station Glenview, IL, July 1972. Handwritten wording on front of contact sheet includes: "23029-31 E-13", "CN or AAM Op Stunt 2nd". Wording/numbers on model airplanes in images includes "N9373", "66655". Wording at top of Navy Carrier landing platforms: "U.S.S. CHICAGO 'U' LINER" and "U.S.S. SMALLFRY N.A.S. GLENVIEW". Stamped on bac...
Record Type: Archives
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Contact sheet - 1972 July
Contact sheet, people with their model airplanes, outdoors, National Model Airplane Championships (Nats), Naval Air Station Glenview, IL, July 1972. Handwritten wording on front of contact sheet includes: "23029-89 E-14", "CN or AAM 3rd Sr. CL Scale", "CN or AAM 1st CL Scale Open", "CN or AAM". Wording/numbers on model airplanes in images includes "463620", "55112", "AMA 60632", "679", "Sharp Shooter", and "N75282". Stamped on back of contact she...
Record Type: Archives
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Contact sheet - 1972 July
Contact sheet, outdoor model airplane flying, possibly a judging table, and people working on models, National Model Airplane Championships (Nats), Naval Air Station Glenview, IL, July 1972. Handwritten wording on front of contact sheet includes: "23029-12 E-6", "CN or AAM winner", "CN or AAM Jr Wake [winner?]". Wording/numbers on model airplanes in images includes "N89487". Four images from another contact sheet are stapled the front of this con...
Record Type: Archives
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Helmet, Pith - Straw Hat
Larry Jenno's straw hat covered with pins from events he attended between the years 1951 and 1996.
Record Type: Object
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Helmet, Pith - Sun Helmet
Red pith helmet given to contestants at the 1953 Internats, the 7th International Model Plane Contest held by the Plymouth Motor Corporation.
Record Type: Object
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Helmet, Pith - Sun Helmet
Yellow pith helmet given to officials at the 1952 Internats, the 6th International Model Plane Contest held by the Plymouth Motor Corporation.
Record Type: Object
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Helmet, Pith - Sun Helmet
Blue pith helmet, signed by multiple Attendees of the 1956 Nats. Hat is believed to have belonged to Johnny Schneider.
Record Type: Object
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Helmet, Pith - Sun Helmet
Orange sun helmet worn by Gene Nevin. Very faint signatures in black marker on brim. "Glenview NAS 1966" is written in black marker on the back.
Record Type: Object
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Helmet, Pith - Sun Helmet
Pith helmet worn by Dan Garfinkel while CD'ing Nats and other contests. Hat is covered in AMA logo stickers, as well as stickers and decals used to detail scale models. A series of four metal toy cars is attached to the top, and a set of working ornithopter wings is attached to the back. When worn, the cars would move and the wings flap - they were powered by a 9V battery mounted under the hat's brim.
Record Type: Object
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Helmet, Pith - Sun Helmet
Pith Helmet worn by Art Laneau while acting as a liaison between the U.S. Navy and the AMA at Nats in the 1960s. Helmet was originally blue, but has been completely painted with red, gold and blue glitter puff paint.
Record Type: Object
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Helmet, Pith - Sun Helmet
Red pith helmet given to contestants at the 1952 Internats, the 6th International Model Plane Contest held by the Plymouth Motor Corporation.
Record Type: Object
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Helmet, Pith - Sun Helmet
Pith Helmet worn by O.C. Stewart at the 1951 International Model Plane Contest sponsored by the Plymouth Motor Corporation. Helmet is bright red and features the Internats logo in white above brim. 1951 was the 5th Annual Internats.
Record Type: Object
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Helmet, Pith - Sun Helmet
Pith Helmet made of white Styrofoam. On the front of the helmet is a Cox logo sticker, as well as a sticker of the red-white-blue AMA torch and wings logo with "1974 Nats" above it.
Record Type: Object
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Print, Photographic - 1960s Circa
Photograph, 8 adults standing, 3 adults kneeling, two youths sitting on the grass - some looking up in sky (likely at an RC model airplane in flight), one person in foreground - wearing a pith helmet - is working on an RC model airplane, Sampey and Co. 404 transmitter touched with their left hand and SIG toolbox nearby; full-scale U.S. Navy aircraft and spectators are in the far background, outdoors, stamped on back "U.S. AIR FORCE PHOTO, Release...
Record Type: Archives
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Print, Photographic - 1960s Circa
Photograph, 11 adults standing, some in military uniform, looking up in sky (likely at an RC model airplane in flight), one man in central group of people holding transmitter, two youths sitting on the grass in the foreground, outdoors, stamped on back "U.S. AIR FORCE PHOTO, Released by BASE PHOTO LAB, [L.G. HANSCOM] FIELD, [BEDFORD], MASS", circa 1960s. Photos A2025.04.03 and A2025.04.05 are related - have some of the same people in them and...
Record Type: Archives
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Print, Photographic - 1971 July 29
Print, photographic and press release, Charlotte Wallace, model airplane team mechanic, wearing decorated Nats pith helmet, National Model Airplane Championships (Nats), U.S. Naval Air Station, Glenview, IL, July 29, 1971. Photograph taken by PHAN G.F. Bryant, Jr. Credit: Official United States Navy Photograph. Wallace's husband, Hale, is mentioned in the press release. Photograph was stapled to press release. Staple taken out for scanning. ...
Record Type: Archives
