Old Timers: Gas Models (I Quaderni di Modellismo)

by Cesare de Robertis

In 1932 Maxwell Bassett, a young man from Philadelphia, showed up at a model airplane competition - until then domain of rubber models - with a first: a model with an internal combustion engine. To say that Bassett was the first is not completely accurate because before him others had tried, such as Samuel Pierpont Langley who flew his "Aerodrome" along the course of the Potomac River in 1903, but these were isolated episodes, with little resonance...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CP42C9GR
• ISBN13: 9798870101484
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 290 Pages
• Dimensions: 11.7" x 0.7" x 8.3"