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Annual Edition 1955 Air Trails Hobbies for Young Men Table of Contents

Annual Edition 1955 Air Trails Cover - Airplanes and Rockets

Table of Contents

These pages from vintage modeling magazines like Flying Aces, Air Trails, American Modeler, American Aircraft Modeler, Young Men, Flying Models, Model Airplane News, R/C Modeler, captured the era. All copyrights acknowledged.

Annual Edition 1955

Cover Drawing by S.C. Smith

Modeling for Money at Chance-Vought Aircraft	2
Two-Line Speed Plane: The 160.5 mph "Monitor" National Record Holder, by Leland S. Morton, Jr.	8
American "NATS" Biggest Ever!, by Reported by Howard McEntee,Photographs by John Schneider	18
Engine Roundup	25
International Meets: Rubber Power Wakefield F.A.I. Free Flight "Gas"	41
National Model Race Car Competition, by Robert J. More	53
Propeller Layouts Are Simplified with the "Pi-Bar", by Gerald Ritz	57
United States Rubber Company Ad	54
The Wonderful World of Model Power Boating	64
Radio Control Equipment	68
Pan American World Airways Ad (PAA-Load)	71
United States Rubber Company Ad	73
Hints 'n' Kinks	74

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