Home craftsmen invited to make Model Planes for the Navy
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Home craftsmen invited to make Model Planes for the Navy
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THE United States Navy has invited home
craftsmen to help immediately with a
project requiring skill and speed. It is an
urgent request to turn out at least 500,000
model airplanes as quickly as possible. They
are needed to train Army, Navy, and civilian
personnel in aircrail recognition
and range estimation in gunnery
practice. !
If you own or operate a home
workshop, or have access to simple
woodworking tools, your skill can
be put to work immediately in this task.
The first step is to find out from your
local Superintendent of Schools who has
been authorized to distribute the working
plans of the models. If the local superin-
tendent does not know, write or telephone
the County or State superintendent.
The same official who distributes
the working drawings will also in-
form you regarding quotas of
models expected from your district,
and will tell you where to procure
materials. He will also be responsible for
accepting for shipment to Washington your
completed models.
The first sets of working drawings—plans
for 50 American and Axis planes to a set—
will be distributed through local school
officials by March 1, 1942. They will come
from the U. S. Office of Education. The
models will be held to a precise scale of one
inch to 72 inches. They will be rigidly in-
spected before use. Soft woods such as
poplar and white pine will be used. Balsa
wood will not be accepted.
The perfection of detail in the models,
and the precise ratio of one to 72 upon
which they are constructed, will enable
cadets and civilian
spotters to learn
identification more
quickly than is possi-
ble by any other
method. Gunnery stu-
dents, for example,
will study the models
at a distance of 35
feet, and know that
the model seen will
correspond to a real
airplane seen at just
under half a mile, for estimation of range.
The smallest models will have a wing
spread of 5% inches; the largest 25 inches.
Most wing spreads will be less than 12
inches. They will be packed at local expense
in sets of 50, one plane of each type, but the
Government will pay shipping costs. The
half million models so urgently needed now
are only a start, and officials expect that
production will be continued long after the
original quota has been filled.
Home craftsmen who complete a given
number of sets will be given certificates in
recognition of their work. This job should
provide an answer to many who, since Pearl
Harbor, have asked “What can I do?”
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1942-04
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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79-81
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Public Domain (Google Digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Roberto Meneghetti
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 140, n. 4, 1942
