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Object |
Model Airplane |
Name of object |
Miss Philadelphia II FF Model |
Description (ex. RP-63G) |
Replica built by Dave Ritchie of Maxwell Bassett's Miss Philadelphia II, the one of the very first Free Flight models to be powered by a gas engine (engine designed by Bill Brown, Jr.). Model features a hard wood, open-structure fuselage with a high polyhedral wing covered in doped bamboo paper Typed on paper and then doped to the wing is a small sheet of paper reading, "This is a radio-controlled replica of my original free-flight model "Miss Philadelphia II" which set a Phila-model airplane association gas power record of 4 min. 37 & 3/8 sec. on March 11, 1933 and which won the Mulvihill trophy with a world record flight of 14 min. 55 sec. at the New York Nationals, June 27, 1933. (signature of Maxwell Bassett) 6/7/86" |
Materials used |
bamboo/silkspan/dope |
Museum ID number |
1987.07.01 |
Tags |
Bassett, Maxwell Brown Jr. engine Brown Junior Motors, Inc./Junior Motors, Inc. Brown, Bill, Jr. Free Flight Miss Philadelphia II Model airplane Radio Control Replica |
Multimedia & More information |
Maxwell Bassett's History Project Biography |