Smithsonian Museum Paper Airplane collection

**altbob** · #1 10-29-2015, 09:18 AM

This is pretty spectacular!

You Think Your Model Airplane Collection is Big? The Smithsonian Has More Than 4,000 | Photos | Air & Space Magazine

(If there is a better place to post this, please move it, thanks!)

**John Dell** · #2 10-29-2015, 10:13 AM

That Robert Mikesh is a man after my own heart. I'd love to see the entire collection of B-17s he built!

**sreinmann** · #3 10-29-2015, 10:23 AM

I imagine the photo documentation would be fairly mundane - but oh man what hours I could enjoy in that slideshow.

**scon10** · #4 10-29-2015, 02:28 PM

It seems that the models ar plastic or wood, not paper. I can't get to the next page, so I may be missing the interesting part.

**Swampfox** · #5 10-29-2015, 02:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by scon10

It seems that the models ar plastic or wood, not paper. I can't get to the next page, so I may be missing the interesting part.

I have the book that shows most of the collection and the models are multimedia builds. Some paper on some of them but I don't recall any ALL paper models, unless you consider wood to be a form of paper;-)

Still, an amazing collection.

SFX

**paperengineer** · #6 10-29-2015, 03:15 PM

There's some really good models, paper or not. If you keep going a few pages, you'll see my favorite, a uss enterprise with full aircraft including a ta4, many a6s and a ton of f14s amongst others

**altbob** · #7 10-29-2015, 03:39 PM

Yeah, the article mentioned that some of them are made of paper and present some interesting preservation challenges, so I thought it would be relevant to pass it along to this group. The 1/10 scale Johnson Monoplane is worth clicking on for sure for lovers of pioneer era aviation and rigging wires!

**piginapoke** · #8 10-31-2015, 02:13 AM

Excellent collection