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2. Monogram (company) - Wikipedia

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   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.

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. 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 ...

5. Ochroma - Wikipedia

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   Three different sizes of balsa wood stock. Balsa lumber is very soft and light, with a coarse, open grain. The density of dry balsa wood ranges from 40 to 475 kg/m 3, with a typical density around 160 kg/m 3. [5] [6] [7] Balsa is the softest wood ever measured using the Janka hardness test (22 to 167 lbf). [8]

6. Testor Corporation - Wikipedia

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   Website. testors.com. Testor Corporation (or Testors) is an American manufacturer of tools and accessories for scale model kits. The business is based in Rockford, Illinois, and is part of RPM International. [1] It was founded in 1929 and its products are made in the US and marketed to customers worldwide. [2]

7. 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 ...