UNABLE To Post with two URLS in one thread - so second photo below and sources shortened.Publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst created the model-building organization, the Junior Birdmen of America.
Hearst papers ran columns offering advice and tips to Junior Birdmen and sponsored flying meets where members competed for prizes.
His faith in the winged gospel was embedded in the Junior Birdmen's motto: "Today pilots of models, Tomorrow model pilots."
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Junior Birdmen Air Course - prepared by U.S. Bureau of Air Commerce.
This is the forty-ninth lesson in the Junior Birdmen air course prepared by the United States Bureau of Air Commerce.
You can obtain a booklet containing the reprint of the first 26 lessons by writing to the Junior Birdmen Wing Headquarters
care of this newspaper, enclosing five cents for cost and mailing. This reprint is fully illustrated.
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It was a popular radio program.
Junior Birdmen of America, NBC, Dec. 12, 1936. Eight (8) phonorecords.
University of Maine Orono
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Gargoyle