Vintage Issues of American Modeler Magazine

Aircraft modeling has undergone significant changes over the decades - both in technology and preferences. Magazines like American Aircraft Modeler, American Modeler, Air Trails, Flying Aces, Flying Models, Model Airplane News, Aero Modeller, R/C Modeler, and Young Men • Hobbies • Aviation • Careers were the best venues for capturing snapshots of the status quo of the day. Still, many things never change, so much of the old content is relevant to today's modeler. Whether you are here to wax nostalgic, or are interested in learning history, hopefully you will find what you are seeking. As time permits, I will be glad to scan articles for you. All copyrights are hereby acknowledged.

If you want to wax nostalgic over some of the old advertisements, check out these that I have selected.

Month	Cover	Year
January TOC		1957
February TOC		1957
March TOC		1957
April TOC		1957
May TOC		1957
June TOC		1957
July TOC		1957
August TOC		1957
September TOC		1957
October TOC		1957
November TOC		1957
December TOC		1957
August TOC		1958
October TOC		1958
November TOC		1958
March TOC		1959
June TOC		1959
July TOC		1959
August TOC		1959
November TOC		1959
December TOC		1959
April TOC		1960
November TOC		1960
Annual Edition TOC		1961
January TOC		1961
February TOC		1961
March TOC		1961
April TOC		1961
May TOC		1961
June TOC		1961
July TOC		1961
August TOC		1961
December TOC		1961
Annual Edition TOC		1962
January TOC		1962
February TOC		1962
March TOC		1962
April TOC		1962
June TOC		1962
July TOC		1962
August TOC		1962
September TOC		1962
October TOC		1962
November TOC		1962
December TOC		1962
Annual TOC		1963
January / February TOC		1963
March / April TOC		1963
May / June TOC		1963
July / August TOC		1963
September/October TOC		1963
November / December TOC		1963
March / April TOC		1964
September/October TOC		1965
July / August TOC		1966
March TOC		1967
September TOC		1967
October TOC		1967
December TOC		1967

Articles

• Scale-Like P-40 Curtiss Stunter
• "The Langley" Mulvihill Winner
• Pietenpol Air Camper
• Miss Max Plans
• Ready to Try Towline Gliding?
• Just Right Pee Wee Free Flight
• Jet Powered "JexJet" for Youthful Payload Pilots
• A/1 Jetstream Towline Glider
• PAA-Load Events for 1961
• Sketchbook - March 1961
• National Model Distributors
• Sketchbook - May 1961
• Stuka Stunt Plans
• Dope Can
• The Chance Vought Aircraft Story
• Combat King Article & Plans
• Control Line Capers - July 1961
• How Plastic Kits Are Made - Revell Shows Production System
• B-70 Free Flight Sensation
• Model Aviation Comics - January 1961
• Action A'Plenty at Experimental "Fly-In"
• Rathgeber's "Minimum,"
• Flettner-Type Rotor Wing
• Sketchbook - July 1961
• Cal Smith Tells You How to Win with Navy Carrier Models
• Whistler
• Be Smart! Be Safe!: Sage Advice to Young Rocket Fans
• Free Flight Rocket, Jr. Jet PAA-Load and PAA Load Jet
• Who Flew What in the American Radio Plane Championships
• Easily Made F-G Cowls
• Boats - Speed, Scale, Radio Control
• International Miniature Racing
• Model Aviation Comic - September & December 1962,
• Engine Idling Secrets, Part 2
• The Stanzels of Schulenburg
• Flite Kite .049-Powered Box Kite
• Queen of the R/C Fleet: U.S.S. California Battlewagon
• Sites Are Great in Kansas City
• Letter to AMA HQ Praises Club Plan
• Plane and Fancy Shooting - Part 1
• Pee-Wee "Bomb"
• World's Smallest Mass-Produced Glow Plug Engine Unveiled by Cox
• Model Rocketry's New Look
• Robert Sifleet - Championship Modeler
• My Life as a Modeler
• "Maximus" 1/2A Free Flight
• "Maximus" FAI Class A Free Flight
• "Maximus" Class B Free Flight
• Sketchbook, January 1961
• AMA Nats on TV
• Retracting-Gear Airliner
• Post-Pusher Parade
• Square Hare from Delaware
• Matchbox Fliers
• Frank Smith's Miniplanes
• Jim Vornholt's Carousel
• Sheer Nonsense? No, Sir!
• Battery Problems Spoiling Your R/C Fun?
• Model Boat Record Breakers
• How to Woo a Gal with Models
• World War One Bristol M.1C
• Shark 35 Control Line Airplane Plans
• Jetex Free Flight Beginners Project
• Twin .020 Helicopters
• Talon Zephyr Article & Plans
• Bomarc IM-99
• How to Select the Proper Glow Plug ... and Why
• Rise-Off-Water Secrets - How to Fly Those Hydro Gassies
• "Talon Zephyr" Radio Control Pylon Racer
• Global Engine Review
• This NATS was for the "Birds"
• The Man Who Speaks His Language
• British Air-Model Nationals
• Wild Bill Netzeband's Control Line Capers
• Navy Host To Most Exciting Air-Model Nationals
• Team Engine Idling Secrets (Part 1)
• Adding Power To Plastic Scale Planes
• A Day In The Life Of A Hobby Dealer
• Rocket Trails: Basic Info on Propulsion Systems for Small "Birds"
• How to add Radio Controls to Your Scale Model Auto
• Wild Bill Netzeband's Control Line Capers: Ukie Report
• Ornithopter Flapper
• Sketchbook - Hints & Kinks
• World War-1 Ace von Schleich and his Roland "Wahlfisch"
• Lightweight Proportional Servo
• Radio Control How to Get F.C.C. License Howar
• Sketchbook - Hints & Kinks
• Rocket Trails- We Lead USSR
• Rocket Powered Dyna-Soar
• Cessna OE-2 Marine Observation Plane
• How to Build Better Wings
• Bird Watchers! New Species from Canada
• AYSC - A Younger Set Competes
• Ryan ST-3 | Army PT-21 | PT-22 Detailed Drawings
• Sketchbook - Hints & Kinks
• Rocket Trails - How To Get Started in Model Rocketry
• How to Make a Ducted Fan Radio Control Flyer
• Detroit's Parks and Recreation Leaders Say "Modelers Are People!"
• Dormoy's Famous "Bathtub"
• Everything Under Control... RC News
• Sketchbook - Hints & Kinks
• Rocket Battle at Denver
• Desert Rat Model Progress Report
• How to Add Radio Controls to Scale F/F Kits
• America's Best Youthful Flyers
• Best "4-Way" AYSC Plane - "Topper"
• Winning R/C Racer - "Gold Rush III"
• Fizz-Wizz CO2-Powered Plane
• Portable Carrier Deck
• Ducted Fans - Scale-like R/C Planes
• "Clo-Clo" Terror in a Tempest
• Hawker Tempest
• Maxey's Marvelous P-63 R/C Plane
• de Havilland DHC-3 Otter
• Sketchbook - Hints & Kinks
• "P.E." - Britain's Best Designer
• Wild Bill Netzeband's Control Line Capers
• How to Build George Harris' Magnificent R/C Spitfire
• Tin Goose - She Led the Golden Age
• American Control Line Championships (Part 2)
• How Erie's "Morning News" Promoted Flying Sites for Keystone Klippers
• Powerplant Revue: Hi's Radio Mill Proves Potent Yet Docile .35
• Scale Drawings of Aeronca C-3
• Sketchbook
• Aquativity Roundup
• American Control Line Championships
• Sakai: Japanese Ace
• Sakai's "Claude" Mitsubishi Type 96
• Cleveland Air-Model Capital
• No Strings Attached
• Race Cars in Your Living Room
• Terrible Night in the Sky
• Control Line Capers
• Scale Views of Norair's N-156-F
• Sketchbook
• British Nationals
• All About Air Modeling
• Strange Case of Elyria's Flying Men
• Sketchbook - Model Building Tips
• Model Aviation Comics of Yore
• "Argus," Most Beautiful Stunt Plane
• Sketchbook-Hints and Kinks
• "Stormer" Multi R/C Champion
• Sketchbook - Model Building Tips
• Grumman Ag-Cat Control Liners
• Sketchbook - Model Building Tips
• Secrets of "Winning" Airfoils
• Bristol "170" Freighter Control Liner
• Ramblin' Wreck
• Model Motor Museums (II)
• Wee-38 Lightning
• Sketchbook - Hints & Kinks
• "Rocket College" For Model Makers
• Too Much Conformity? - An Interview with Dr. Andrew A. Kucher
• Sketchbook
• Model Motor Museum
• National Model-Plane Championship Meet
• Wright Cyclone 9 Radial Aircraft Engine, by Monogram
• Kawasaki-61 Control Line Model
• Crusader Radio Control Plane
• Sketchbook - Hints & Kinks For & By the Readers
• Sketchbook - Hints & Kinks
• Supersonic Drones: Models with a Mind of Their Own
• Control-line Aerodynamics Made Painless
• Antiques Fly Again
• Control-line Aerodynamics Made Painless
• Sidelights on the Past: Parnell Pixie
• Sketchbook - Model Building Tips
• Testor: From Here to Hogboda - The Name is Well Known
• "So What's a Propnik?"
• Model Aviation Comics of Yore
• Anti-Grav
• Radio Controlled Sopwith Pup
• Flying Site Success Story - Billings Bounces Back
• Model Paradise: PACAF
• Model Progress - Commentary
• Peter O'Dactyl, Fearsome F/F is "Toeliner," Too!
• No String Attached
• Keelhauled at Kiev?
• World's Largest Prison
• Aquativities - Variable Pitch Boat Prop
• Rocket Trails: Nats Pix
• Control Line Capers
• "WAG" Handheld R/C Transmitter
• Western Roundup: Old Timers Free Flight Brings Out Yesteryear Favorites
• What Really Happened at Kiev International U-Control Meet
• Hot Engines!
• Car Show Pictorial Review
• Simple Radio Control Flying Wing - Flexwings
• Control Liner F4F-3 Grumman Wildcat
• Mad Modeler's Coloring Book
• No Strings Attached, Free Flight Commentary
• Sketchbook
• "Yeti" Radio Controlled Pilatus Porter
• Mad Modelers' Slot Racer
• Netzeband Reports on the Aero 35 Horizontal Piston Engine
• Ritz on Airfoils
• Tech Talk
• West Coast Nationals
• "Mr. Speed" Clayton Folkerts
• Control Line Chance Vought Corsair
• Modelers You'd Like to Know
• Lil' Roughneck
• Rocket Trails
• YAK-3 Control-Liner
• Bounty Hunter
• NASA Engineer Develops Servo-Tab Control for Rubber-Powered R/C
• A Statement of Policy
• Control-Line Aerodynamics Made Painless
• The Grumman Widgeon
• Douglas Skystreak
• Sketchbook
• Multi-Cylinder Engines
• Count-Down: Soviet MR-1 Meteo Sounding Rocket
• The Power of Magnet Steering in Gliders
• Model World on the International Scene
• Fifth RC World Champs
• Rx for R.O.W. - Part II
• Experimental Canard
• Fairchild KR·21
• Sketchbook
• C/L Half-A Proto Speed Event
• Control Line Club Builds Control Line Navy Carrier Deck
• Russian Modelers Seek Service in Salt Mines!
• Model Aeronutics... as seen by Roland
• Sketchbook - Construction, Adjustment, Workshop Ideas
• "Impala" AMA Stunter
• Wild Bill Netzeband's Control Line Capers
• Southwest Champion's Winning Towliner "Honker"
• Sketchbook
• Speaking of Models - Early Wankel Engines
• Rocket Trails: Boost/Gliders on Upswing
• Modelin' Folk Singers
• Retracting Gear B-17G Control Liner
• Armstrong-Whitworth F.K. 10 Quadruplane
• Carl Goldberg: "Mr. Modeling"
• Control Line Capers
• Model Boating - Aquativities
• "Handy-Mac" 50-mc R/C Transmitter
• Goldberg Falcon Sires a Junior
• Sketchbook - Construction, Adjustment, and Workshop Ideas
• Secrets of International Team Racing (Part 2)
• Sketchbook
• "Ephemeris" Class A and FAI Free Flight
• Heinkel's Biplane Fighter C/Line Model
• Hannes Trautloft of the Condor Legion
• "HT-50" - Hopped-Up Jetex
• A Complete Pictorial Rundown on the 1962 World R/C Champs
• Scalecraft & Finish
• Sketchbook
• Hobby Humor
• Rocket Trails: Boost Gliders: Winged "Birds"
• Sketchbook - Model Building Tips
• Sketchbook - Model Building Tips
• R/C Equipment: Citizen-Ship 8·Channel
• Pink Ladies by Bill Wisniewski
• Expert Advice for Amateur Rocketry
• Sketchbook
• USAF Cessna L-27A
• Ramblin' Wreck
• Pendulum Pete for F/F or C/L
• Western Modeling - featuring the LARKS' R/C Circus
• Model Motor Museums (II)
• Sketchbook
• Cover Plane: Rason "Warrior" X-3
• Modeling Pay at NACA
• 1957 AMA Nats Pics
• Curtiss Hawk for Control Line Fans
• Styrofoam VTO Half-A Satellite
• Hall's Springfield "Bulldog" Racer
• Ski-Dart for Jetex Power
• Vintage Model Aviation Comics
• "Lost-Wax" Casting Goes Back to Ancient Modelers
• Sketchbook Maybe
• We Need "Do-it-Yourself" Model Contests!
• Thimble-Drome Piper Super Cub 105
• Newcomers to America's Jet Air Force
• Sketchbook Helpful Hints & Kinks
• Grumman F2F-1 Control Line
• QL-17 "Shoots" Our Office
• Third Line Theme
• Model Aviation Comics of Yore
• Sketchbook - Hints & Kinks
• You Can STUNT Your Rudder Plane
• Designs of Tomorrow
• Why DO You Build Models?
• Official AMA Control Line Stunt Patterns
• Grumman F7F "Tigercat,"
• How Bill Wisniewski Reworks His Engines
• "Supersonic Sam" Jetex Powered
• "Gay Devil" Stunt Plane
• Sketchbook - Hints & Kinks
• Sketchbook - Hints & Kinks
• Designs of Tomorrow
• "Flying Platform" Gets Three Engines
• Gyrenes Pocket Copter
• Big Twin R/C Outboard Motorboat
• Air Force vs. Airplane Modeler Comic
• Sketchbook - Hints & Kinks
• A Wind Tunnel You Can Make
• Aeronautical Antiques
• Mac's "Chariot"
• Dope Can
• How NOT to Retrieve a Model
• Cox Babe Bee
• Sketchbook - Hints & Kinks
• Model Aviation Comics of Yore
• Perpy
• Free Flight Symposium, Part II
• Air Adventurers Models, Jetex-Powered "VTO"
• Sketchbook - Hints & Kinks Model Making Offers Money Making Opportunities
• America's Top Flyers Reveal Their Contest-Winning Secrets
• Northrop SM-62 Snark
• Air Snowcar Will Liven Up Winter Contests
• More of Those Fabulous Mini-Copters
• Sketchbook - Hints & Kinks
• Cessna OE-2 Marine Liaison Plane
• Report on Johnson Engines

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