Academy of Model Aeronautics Government Advocacy Coalition - Airplanes and Rockets

March 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.

March 1956

Vol. 45, No. 6

Cover: You may think this scene is just a figment of artist Harold Stevenson's imagination. Not a bit of it. We've seen it happen again and again at all kinds of model meets - planes, cars, boats. We congratulate the first place winner on his fine-looking Spitfire.

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

Sheet Metal Susie: All-Aluminum C/L Modelplane, by Roy L. Clough, Jr.	30
Sketchbook, by H.A. Thomas	66

Posted March 28, 2016

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