Off to the Swap Meet in Granite City, Illinois

Vince and I made the run to a Swap Meet hosted by the Midwest Air Wing RC Club in the Granite City Township Hall.

Seemed like they had a fair turn out on this dark, rainy Saturday.

One REALLY interesting item---though not for sale--was a WWII era OQ-2 Radioplane Target Drone. I'd seen the one in the National Museum of the USAF, but was allowed a much closer look at this example, which had one wing left uncovered to view the wing's structure...AND the penciled signatures of some of it's builders.
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From Wikipedia:
It was at the Radioplane plant at the Van Nuys Airport, near Los Angeles, on June 26, 1945 that Army photographer David Conover saw a young woman assembler named Norma Jeane Dougherty, whom he thought had potential as a model.

She was photographed in the plant, which led to a screen test for Norma Jeane, who soon changed her name to Marilyn Monroe.
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I posted some links at the bottom to provide a little history on this cool "War Bird".

Vince scored an .020-powered Cox Skycopter, while I walked away with four buck's worth of small hardware packets, so it wasn't a big haul for us.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioplane_OQ-2

http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/rpav_radioplane4.html

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