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1. Photograph

   Photographic print, close-up image of engine, propeller, and front tires of Bill Chaffee's Scale P-12B model biplane, 1930 Nats contest winner, photograph undated. Photographs A2024.10.22, A2024.10.23, A2024.10.24, A2024.10.25, A2024.10.26, and A2024.10.27 are of same model aircraft. Per Bill Chaffee's biography in the AMA History Project, written by his son, Hal, "In the 1930s, Eugene Kettering bought Chaffee’s prize-winning Boeing P-12B f...

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2. Photograph

   Photographic print, Bill Chaffee's Scale P-12B model biplane, 1930 Nats contest winner, photograph undated. Airplane is partially in-the-bones (not covered). Image shows front half of model. Photographs A2024.10.22, A2024.10.23, A2024.10.24, A2024.10.25, A2024.10.26, and A2024.10.27 are of same model aircraft. Per Bill Chaffee's biography in the AMA History Project, written by his son, Hal, "In the 1930s, Eugene Kettering bought Chaffee’s p...

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3. Wheel - Tire

   Tire, black rubber with gray plastic hub. Stamped into the rubber on both sides is "Du-Bro 3.00R" Tire is extremely hard as it is filled with polyurethane foam. One of the many created for use on the model aircraft designed to fly powered by the S-100 turbine engine. The airframe and turbine engine (serial number 1) were the first true turbine powered model airplane flown in the United States in 1988. The combination was then flown at t...

   Record Type: Object