BUSTER K&B Powered Model Airplane

BUSTER K&B Powered Model Airplane

Craftsman: K&B Manufacturing; Premium Manufacturing

Knapp Collection #: 616-2

Catalog #: 2019.33.14

Contributor: Paul Knapp

A special version of the Torpedo Jr. was created for a promotional model airplane produced for the LA Times Newspaper, circa 1951.

Custom-built “Peanut Scale” Biplane

Custom-built “Peanut Scale” Biplane

Craftsman: David Gee 

Catalog #: 2010.4.1

Donor: David Gee 

This contest-winning rubber powered plane is patterned after the 1913 Grahame-White “Lizzie” and is built from balsa sticks with doped tissue for wing and fuselage surfaces.

FIA Rubber Powered Free-Flight Aircraft Model

FIA Rubber Powered Free-Flight Aircraft Model

Craftsman: Andrey Burdov

Catalog #: 2014.7.7

Contributor: Edward Swenton Jr.

This plane features a carbon fiber fuselage with brass tube rear section, carbon fiber leading edge on the inner wing sections, and custom formed carbon fiber tube as a spar in the outer sections of the double dihedral wings.

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