Written by AMA Staff
As seen in the August 2015 issue of Model Aviation.
Horace Hagen’s Cobra
Dieter Schlueter of Germany was the first person to commercially produce and sell a semiscale RC helicopter kit—a scale AH-1G Bell Huey Cobra. Horace Hagen received one of the first 50 kits built and sold by Dieter in April 1971. The kit also had the distinction of being the first RC helicopter kit in the US.
Horace Hagen donated his 1971 Scale AH-1G Bell Huey Cobra to the National Model Aviation Museum
in 2011.
Here is a description, in Horace’s words, of…