America's youth builds and flies model planes on miniature flying fields. This flying model plane, which has a wing span of 9 12 feet (2.85 meters) was the largest model to enter a recent competitive meet at Modelhaven Airport near the city of Baltimore in the eastern state of Maryland. Model building has long been a popular hobby among American youth, and boys who a few years ago were building their miniature planes in home and school workshops are now putting that experience to practical use in airplane factories or in the armed forces. When the U.S. government in 1941 called on model plane builders to turn out 800,000 scale model airplanes for use by the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Army, and civilian defense groups to train their personnel to recognize hostile and friendly aircraft, it was estimated that there were nearly three million American youths actively interested in aero-modelling
Summary
Additional information from caption on print in lot: Approved by appropriate U.S. authority.
Additional number on print in lot: 58495.
Portrait of America series; no. 96.
Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Temp. note: owibatch7
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Date
01/01/1944
Location
baltimore
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
Public Domain