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November 1954 Air Trails Hobbies for Young Men
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November 1954 Air Trails Cover - Airplanes and Rockets

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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.

November 1954

Vol. 43, No. 2

Allbon Diesel Engines	18
Should You Go Into Engineering?, by Dr. A. Pemberton Johnson	20
Auto Progress - The Oldsmobile Story	24
Look out Below! - Basement Railroad	28
Air Progress - Japanese Air Force After World War I, by Douglas Rolfe	30
World Model Air Olympics - Photo Report	34
Mactuator: A More Efficient Magnetic Actuator for Radio Control, Howard McEntee	42
1954 National Modelplane Championships	44
"Squeaker" Speed Plane, by Tommy Baker	48

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