Plastic Scale Model Kits - Airplanes and Rockets

Annual Edition 1960 Air Trails Hobbies for Young Men
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 1960

Cover Drawing by S. C. Smith

Model Aviation Themed Comics	19, 76, 96, 98
Workshop Tips for Modelers	12
America's Top F.A.I. Free Flight "Saturn," by Howard Timlin	13
Super Tanks from Simple Change?, by Robert L. Angel	18
"Simplex" Airfoil Templates, by Robert H. W. Annenberg	19
Starting Free Flight	20
Lightness Is a Virtue	22
Starting Control Line Flying Scale	30
U-Control Corner	32
Model Boats - And Aweigh They Go!	34
CAR: Coupled Aileron Ruddered System for Radio Control, by Maynard L Hill	36
Starting R/C Model Boating	40
Starting Control Line Combat	50
Fleetwon Control Line Combat Model, by Bob Peru	52
Wright J5 "Whirlwind" 9−Cylinder Radial Engine	53
Instruments for the Scale Model, by James M. Triggs	54
Cockpit Details for the Scale Model Text, by Jim Triggs	56
That Feminine Touch	86
Ambroid Liquid Cement	89

Posted March 20, 2021

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