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2. Monogram (company) - Wikipedia

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   Monogram is an American brand and former manufacturing company of scale plastic models of cars, aircraft, spacecraft, ships, and military vehicles since the early 1950s. The company was formed by two former employees of Comet Kits, Jack Besser and Bob Reder. Mattel acquired Monogram in 1968, and the firm passed through various owners and was ...

3. List of model aircraft manufacturers - Wikipedia

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   NOVO Aircraft Kits (UK/USSR) Occidental Réplicas (Portugal) Octopus (Czech Republic) ODK (Odaka) (Japan) OEZ (Czech Republic)- kits later reboxed by Smer, Airfix and Revell at various times; Ogonek (Russia) OKB-144 (Russia) Olimp Models (Ukraine) One Man Model (Japan) Orange Hobby (China) Oriental Model (Japan) Otaki (Japan) - went bankrupt in ...

4. Radio-controlled aircraft - Wikipedia

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   An RC flyer demonstrating knife edge flying. A radio-controlled aircraft (often called RC aircraft or RC plane) is a small flying machine that is radio controlled by an operator on the ground using a hand-held radio transmitter. The transmitter continuously communicates with a receiver within the craft that sends signals to servomechanisms ...

5. Life-Like - Wikipedia

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   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. Estes Industries - Wikipedia

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   Estes Industries was founded by Vernon Estes in 1958; in 1961, the company moved to a 77-acre tract of land on the outskirts of Penrose, Colorado. [10] [1] In 1969, Vernon sold the company to the Damon Corporation of Needham, Massachusetts, a company which also purchased a number of other hobby companies including a smaller competitor of Estes, Centuri Engineering of Phoenix, Arizona.

7. Simple Plastic Airplane Design - Wikipedia

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   Good trainer planes and gliders can be made from SPADs. SPAD modelers make equally good advanced planes that can be made with corrugated plastic. They include: RC Airplane Combat, 3D Flying, and are preferred in places where the flyers would normally not risk a more expensive plane and yet want the same flying characteristics of balsa planes.