AMA’s First Life Member ‘Team’

Profile of Sid and Carolyn Axelrod, L-22 and L-23By Jim McNeill, AMA HistorianAs seen in the October 1978 issue of Model Aviation.This month we honor one of the truly great model airplane pioneers of this era, Sid Axelrod. His beautiful wife, Carolyn, is a Life Member of AMA, too—the first such husband and wife combination in the Academy's history. Sid is president of the famous Top Flite Company in Chicago, the world's largest manufacturers of model propellers, turning out more than two million a year. "Giving kids what they want," is how he words it when describing his company's…