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LOCKHEED MODEL 10 ELECTRA

his ⅛-scale scratch-built model is the same type of plane Amelia Earhart was flying when she disappeared in 1937. Mark shares that he built the plane for his club’s winter building contest, starting by enlarging plans from an image he found online. The 83-inch-span model has split flaps and scale ailerons with

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