enow.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: balsa wood airplane kits

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Paul K. Guillow, Inc. - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_K._Guillow,_Inc.

    A stick & tissue balsa model airplane under construction, still manufactured by Guillow's. During World War II, the supply of balsa wood was diverted to the war effort for the manufacture of rafts and life jackets. Guillow's was forced to use alternative materials like cardboard or pine wood to manufacture the model kits. In the meantime the ...

  3. Monogram (company) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monogram_(company)

    Monogram was founded in Chicago in 1945, making balsa wood model kits of ships and airplanes. Seaships such as the USS Missouri battleship, the USS Shangri-La carrier and the USS Hobby destroyer were among the first products.

  4. List of model aircraft manufacturers - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_model_aircraft...

    Meikraft Models (USA) - ceased production of limited run plastic kits, later kits of are of very good quality; Meng Model (China) Merit (UK) - ceased production of plastic model aircraft sometime in the late 1950s; Merit International (USA) Merlin Model (UK) MGD Models (Czech Republic) Micro Ace (Japan) - ex-Arii; Micro Scale Design (Russia ...

  5. Life-Like - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-Like

    Their experience in the hobby industry began in the 1930s when they became interested in constructing model airplanes. With money borrowed from their mother, the brothers formed the Burd Model Airplane Manufacturing Co. and sold their own model airplane kits using balsa wood they would salvage from discarded banana crates. As the business grew ...

  6. Model aircraft - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_aircraft

    Singapore Airlines Boeing 747-400 scale display model Group of students with their wooden model airplanes in Sonta, Serbia, 1936. A model aircraft is a physical model of an existing or imagined aircraft, and is built typically for display, research, or amusement. Model aircraft are divided into two basic groups: flying and non-flying.

  7. Radio-controlled aircraft - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio-controlled_aircraft

    The wood, typically balsa and light ply, may either be cut with a die-cut or laser. Laser cut kits have a much more precise construction and much tighter tolerances, but tend to cost more than die-cut kits. Wood kits include the raw material needed to assemble the airframe, a construction manual, and full-size plans.

  1. Ads

    related to: balsa wood airplane kits