June 1956 Young Men • Hobbies • Aviation • Careers
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• Hobbies • Aviation • Careers

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.

June 1956

Vol. 46, No. 3

Cover: Those F-Whatzit's on the cover were drawn by James M. Triggs, better known as "Supersonic Jim, the lightning artist." Configuration is by our first-place $50 winner in this month's "Designs of Tomorrow" competition.

Many thanks to Bob Balsie for sending me scanned pages to process and post!

Spectacular C-130 "Hercules" Model, by Henry G. Edwards	32

Posted April 23, 2016

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