Written by the National Model Aviation Museum staff
The exhibit is titled "Scene" at the Nats
History Preserved
As seen in the June 2019 issue of Model Aviation.
PITH HELMETS CAN tell us a surprising amount of information about the history of aeromodeling.
Take, for example, two pith helmets. Both are from one of the Plymouth International Model Plane Contests, held in 1952, and sponsored annually by the Plymouth Motor Corporation.
Generally referred to as the Plymouth Internats, the contest, which had a limited…