1AIRPLANE ALPHABET
2TOOLS
3MATERIALS
4READING AND USING PLANS
5MODEL CARRYING CASES
6METAL FITTINGS
7WINGS
8FUSELAGES
9PROPELLERS
10LANDING GEARS
11ENGINES AND COWLINGS
12RUBBER MOTORS AND MOTOR STICKS
13PAINTING
14AIRPLANE INSIGNIA
15MODEL ACCESSORIES
16THE ART OF FLYING MODELS

GLIDERS
17CHAMPIONSHIP SOLID BALSA GLIDER
18PRIMARY GLIDER
19GERMAN HANGWIND SECONDARY GLIDER
20BOWLUS SAILPLANE

STICK MODELS
21CRANT MINUTE MAN TRACTOR
22CONDOR TRACTOR
23BABY R.O.G. TRACTOR
24CHAMPION OUTDOOR TRACTOR
25GULL WING
26SINGLE-STICK OUTDOOR PUSHER
27HAND-LAUNCHED TWIN PUSHER
28R.O.W. TWIN-STICK PUSHER
29TAILLESS TRACTOR
30UMBRELLA-TAIL TRACTOR
31ALL-IN-ONE MODEL
32PROFILE SPEEDSTER
33FIFTEEN-MINUTE CHAMPIONSHIP TRACTOR296
34MILE-A-MINUTE TWIN PUSHER302
35OUTDOOR COMMERCIAL TRACTOR308

SOLID SCALE MODELS
36BOEING NAVY PURSUIT F4-B4319
37SIKORSKY S-42-B BERMUDA CLIPPER325
38WACO CABIN330
39VULTEE LADY PEACE335
40REARWIN SPEEDSTER340
41STINSON RELIANT345
42G. A FLYING BOAT350
43DOUGLAS DC-3 MAINLINER355
44MARTIN CHINA CLIPPER361
45LOCKHEED ELECTRA366

BUILT-UP NON-FLYING SCALE MODELS AND
FLYING SCALE MODELS
46FAIREY BATTLE.373
47MUREAUX 180-C2 PURSUIT383
48CURTISS SOC-1 NAVY SCOUT397
49S. E. 5413
50GERMAN DARMSTADT D-22429
51RYAN S-T446
52BRITISH WESTLAND COOPERATION459
53GERMAN FOKKER D-7471
54AERONCA SPORTPLANE489
55PITCAIRN AUTOGIRO PCA-3500
56PITCAIRN AUTOGIRO PA-19514
57FLYING ARMY BLIMP525
COMPLETE AVIATION DICTIONARY535
GLOSSARY OF MODEL TERMS550
DEALERS LIST552
INDEX563
MODEL PILOTS LOG571

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The author wishes to express his appreciation to Charles Hampson Grant Harry Appel Nick Limber Avrum Zier Richard M. Kane Ralph Sommer Clair Lorin Bates Norman Mencher Henry Struck Louis Milowitz Robert V. Smith Louis Garami William Winter Elbert J. Weathers and Robert Harrison for dieir splendid cooperation in preparing this book.
He is deeply grateful to Jesse Davidson for many months of research and experimentation and for countless hours spent in designing building testing and perfecting many of the models apparatus and methods presented in these pages.
He wishes to thank Frank Monaghan for expert work in preparing and lettering many of the plans appearing throughout this book.
To Dr. and Mrs. Frank S. White Strattan S. White and Phyllis Wendell Friend the author cannot express too highly his appreciation and thanks for their helpful criticism and suggestions and for the many kindnesses they gave while he burned their midnight oil.
Many of the models photographed in these pages were supplied by Irwin S. Polk of Polks Model Craft Hobbies and for this kindness and many others the author expresses his grateful thanks.
Such models as the Darmstadt Westland Cooperation Fairey Battle Curtiss Scout and the Murcaux came from the pages of Model Airplane News the finest and oldest magazine in this country published solely for the model airplane enthusiast. It is to its publisher George C. Johnson and its able editor Charles Hampson Grant that the author sends his thanks for permitting the use of such splendid models. He could have found no finer source for material.
For those of wider interests who want good models to build thrilling fiction to read and sound facts to study the magazine Flying Aces heads my personal list. Such stick models as the Championship Solid Balsa Glider Gull Wing Condor Tractor Profile Speedster and the Champion Outdoor Tractor came from its pages. For permission to use these models here the author wishes to thank its publisher A. A. Wyn and its editor Herb Powell.
Ie likewise expresses his appreciation to other magazines whose publishers have permitted the reprinting of certain material and photographs of his own which have appeared from time to time in their publications
Boys Life Avio News St. Nicholas Flying Stories Everyday Mechanics The Country Gentleman King Features Syndicate Popular Science Monthly