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Summary of the November 2023 meeting. Points (“Hasegawa vs. Tamiya”) and Sponsored Contest (“P-51”) results.
Prompted by a request in the October ASM newsletter, here is an account of a Balloon-Busting Ace from WWI and a SPAD S.XIII model build from Mike Blohm.
The ASM WWI model display has been installed at the Cherry Hills branch of Albuquerque Public Library.
Check out this article by Dem Brudders on modeling airliners.
A look at the new October 2023 releases from Italeri.
A note about the upcoming 2024 E-Board. An election will be held during the November meeting for the President position.
Summary of the October 2023 meeting. Sponsored Contest (“Middle East Conflicts”) results, and a presentations by Tony Humphries and John Tate on the 50th Anniversary of the Yom Kippur War.
Article by Mike Blohm that was published in the IPMS USA Journal, May/June 2023 – Volume 35, Number 03
A 1960’s Fouga Magister on display at the EAA “Land of Enchantment Fly-In.” Not your typical show bird.
Saturday, 9/23/23, was Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) Chapter 179’s “Land of Enchantment Fly-in” at the Double Eagle II Airport in Albuquerque.
New images by Ocean Exploration Trust show in detail the wrecks of USS Yorktown (CV-5) and two Japanese aircraft carriers IJN Kaga and IJN Akagi sunk during the pivotal World War II Battle of Midway.
In honor of the upcoming presentation by John Tate and Tony Humphries, learn about the state of model kit options around the time of the Yom Kippur War in 1973.
