The Brooklyn Skyscrapers

Established in 1936, the Brooklyn Skyscrapers is one of the oldest model airplane clubs in the country. The club still has a large membership, although not one single member resides in the borough of Brooklyn, N.Y. The club has retained this name for two reasons, tradition and chutzpah! Tradition, because of the clubs origin. And chutzpah because of the clubs old battle cry, "Brooklyn voises da woild." Also known as the most active club in the northeast, the clubs members still travel to all parts of the country to compete in free flight model airplane contests. Today the Skyscrapers have members living in all parts of the United States, but the core members still live in the N.Y.C. Tri-state area. This documentary was assembled using old home movies from the clubs archives. Stills of this rare film footage of modeling activity from 1939 and 1957 can be seen below along with new video stills showing todays members. This video showing sixty years of modeling activity is a must for those flyers who long for the "good ole' days". The 1947 Internats was one of the first large model airplane contests to be held after WWII. A copy of this documentary is included after the Skyscraper video. Stills from the 1947 Internats can also be seen below. To see more stills from HGTV video's just click the links on our catalog page.