Long's Hobby Supply

12/13/2020

Merry Christmas from Long's Hobby Supply, 7 Valley Street in Lewistown. Here's the storefront display from the mid 1950's. This time of year was a popular time for American Flyer and Lionel train sales and repairs.

07/23/2020

Roy would have been 102 today. Miss you, dad!

04/26/2020

Found the remains of a rubber-stamped envelope tonight with this on the back. Neat look back into history.

02/18/2020

Built in 1957, here's radio control plane #6. An original design by Roy Long, Jr. Powered by an OK "Cub" twin-cylinder gasoline engine and controlled via a "Citizen Ship" transmitter and receiver. In the eighties the engine was updated to an OS 90 four-cycle gasoline engine and the radio to a solid-state Kraft system.

This in-flight photo was taken in 1983 just before landing. Today the plane still looks almost identical to this photo, and it is the oldest surviving plane from a fleet of 40 r/c planes built by my father.

02/18/2020

The Babcock "Breezy Sr" model airplane. This model was built in 1959, and was the 11th radio control plane built Roy Long, Jr. Photo taken in July of 1966.

01/23/2020

Original film from the 1940's.

01/23/2020

Original film from the 1940's of flying free-flight models at the Dixon Field (modern day Rec Park) in Lewistown, PA.

01/23/2020

Great history about the early beginnings of Radio Control planes and the Brown Junior engines. Does anyone remember Bill Brown?

Building and flying model airplanes is a hobby enjoyed by thousands of people around the world. The hobby has a long history, and some of it involves people from right here in Centre County.

10/02/2018

Here's the front and the back of a photo from June of 1947, when the shop was located at the rear of 94 Logan Street. Pictured are Bill Long, "Shorty" Wedlake, and Bill Renninger