• A teenaged-looking boy holds up a large model airplane as if he is about to launch it into the air.
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    Eugene Stiles hand-launches a record speed model in a competition in Alameda, California on July 20, 1949. The model (A19520045000) was designed and built by Henry Struck of Hamburg, Connecticut.

  • A teenaged-looking boy holds up a large model airplane as if he is about to launch it into the air.

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