All Pro Dads Program

Learn how AMA Executive Vice President Randy Cameron has used the "All Pro Dads" program to introduce his son's classmates to model aviation.

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Making a Fantastic Foam Flyer
Would you like to build your own glider using balsa wood and foam? Check this out!
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Build NASA's PRANDTL Flying Wing
NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center engineers in Edwards, California, are working on an increasingly complex aircraft called the Preliminary Research Aerodynamic Design to Lower Drag, or Prandtl-D. NASA has provided a report and files that contain geometry in an effort to allow others to build and analyze this aircraft design!
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International Postal Contests 2016-2017
Would you like to participate in a Postal Contest? We're here to show you how!
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How to Modify a Stock Balsa Glider
Tom Sanders demonstrates how to modify a stock balsa glider, including adding a launch lug and setting the wing's dihedral. We are excited to be able to share this new project video with you. Additional instructional information is coming soon!
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How to Build a Basic Catapult-Launch Glider
Tom Sanders demonstrates how to build one of his own designs of a basic launch glider. This is the basic version of the glider used in the 2015 Science Olympiad Middle School Challenge.
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How to Build the Curtiss CW-24B
Originally featured in the March 2015 issue of Model Aviation magazine, Laddie Mikulasko details how to build the Curtiss CW-24B. This is a scale of one of the U.S. Army's one-of-a-kind fighter aircraft.
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Build Your Own Star Wars Drones!
Olivier C. provides step-by-step instructions on how he built his internet famous, Star Wars inspired quadcopters on his blog. And you can build one, too!
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Control Line (CL) model aviation can trace its roots back to the early tethered experiments of Victor Tatin, whose compressed-air powered model was flown round-the-pole in 1879. In the 1920s and 1930s aeromodelers began to take this a step further and actually try and control their whip and powered aircraft in flight. Learn more here!

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