Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA) Plans Service - Airplanes and Rockets

March 1957 American Modeler
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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 1957

Vol. 47, No. 6

Cover by S. Calhoun Smith. Artist's Impression of B-58.

Sketchbook - Hints & Kinks	10
Queen of the R/C Fleet: U.S.S. California Battlewagon, by Robert Clyde	14
Me Build a Kite? Quit Ya Kiddin!, by William H. Paxton	16
Model Aviation Comics of Yore	22, 26, 46
Rathgeber's "Minimum," by George Rathgeber	23
Perpy, by Paul Del Gatto	28
Free Flight Symposium, Part II	32
Flettner-Type Rotor Wing, by Roy L. Clough	36
Air Adventurers Models, Jetex-Powered "VTO"	58

Table of Contents for March 1957 American Modeler - Airplanes and Rockets

Posted March 18, 2012

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