Academy of Model Aeronautics · National Model Aviation Museum
The people, clubs and companies that built model aviation, in their own words.
Search 1,062 biographies of modelers, designers and contest fliers, plus the histories of 62 clubs and 26 companies, preserved by the AMA History Project.
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5 pages Club
East Coast Indoor Modelers (ECIM)
Club history
In 1926, a small group of modelers were given permission by Commander Charles E. Rosendahl (the father of airship development in the U. S.) and base Commanding Officer E. S. Jackson, to use the newly finished Hangar 1 at Lakehurst for Indoor Free Flight (FF) aero modeling. Merrick “Pete” Andrews (1914-1992) was one of the originators and the…
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2 pages Club
Emerson Model Airplane Club
Club history
Model Planes Come to Emerson Junior High School Starting from scratch this Niles, Illinois, program grew into highly successful activity. The Emerson Junior High is in Niles, Ill. Joseph Patrick Flint is a Shop Instructor – and AMA member. To this add some typical American seventh- and eighth-grade boys and the stage is set for a…