Cecil Peoli designed his rubber band–powered A-frame pusher flying model as a teenager in 1911. The design was popular among modelers and the Ideal Model Aeroplane and Supply Company of New York sold the popular racer design as a construction kit from 1912 until the early 1930s.
Photographer
Eric Long
ID#:
A19781604000_PS94-2291
Source:
National Air and Space Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution
