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March 1955 Air Trails

March 1955 Air Trails 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.

Major Lester D. Gardner, founder of the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences (now the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics - AIAA), is honored in the ad. Major Gardner was a friend and confidant of the Wright Brothers and was responsible for the original Wright Flyer being preserved and displayed in the Smithsonian Institute's National Air and Space Museum.

Use the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' inflation calculator to see what items cost in today's dollars. For instance, that $5.95 "Barnstormer" would be $51.92 in 2013 money. That's the low end of the price range for similarly sized models today; e.g., the Brodak Buster kit for a .19 to .40 engine costs $75.

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