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Annual Edition 1955 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 1955

Cover Drawing by S.C. Smith

Modeling for Money at Chance-Vought Aircraft	2
Two-Line Speed Plane: The 160.5 mph "Monitor" National Record Holder, by Leland S. Morton, Jr.	8
American "NATS" Biggest Ever!, by Reported by Howard McEntee,Photographs by John Schneider	18
Engine Roundup	25
International Meets: Rubber Power Wakefield F.A.I. Free Flight "Gas"	41
National Model Race Car Competition, by Robert J. More	53
Propeller Layouts Are Simplified with the "Pi-Bar", by Gerald Ritz	57
United States Rubber Company Ad	54
The Wonderful World of Model Power Boating	64
Radio Control Equipment	68
Pan American World Airways Ad (PAA-Load)	71
United States Rubber Company Ad	73
Hints 'n' Kinks	74

Posted November 16, 2013

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