Written by MA staff (01/1991); Submitted by GP (2005); Reformatted by JS (10/2010) Updated by JS (09/2017)
Paul Boyer is now retired from the U.S. Navy. While in that service as a Commander, he was liaison officer between the Navy, AMA, and the hobby industry during the many years when the Navy hosted the National Model Airplane Championships.
Due to his personal interest and exceptional efforts, he kept that program going long after others in the Pentagon wanted to end it.
Photo print stored in the National Model Aviation Museum Archives, #0015 Model Aviation Hall of Fame Collection
From information stamped on/attached to photograph:
“OCT 18 1965, PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE,
CHIEF OF NAVAL AIR TRAINING, Bldg 624, NAS Pensacola, Fla. (PHOTO CAPTION), FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, RELEASE NO. 75-65P, PENSACOLA, Fla., Oct. 6—Navy Cmdr. Paul M.
Boyer says thanks to Dean Wright, who presented Boyer a Fellowship award from the Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA) here today. Boyer is public
information officer on the staff of the Chief of Naval Air Training here. Wright is Sixth District vice president of the AMA. Cmdr. Boyer has worked with
the Academy for the past six years, particularly during the AMA’s annual model airplane competition, which is hosted by the Navy. -30-, EAP-5198-L-10-65, NAS PNCLA FLA, DATE TAKEN: 10-6-65 BY: OLIVER, PHAN, SUBJ: AMA REP. DEAN WRIGHT PRESENTING AMA FELLOWSHIP TO CDR. PAUL M. BOYER. OFFICIAL UNITED STATES PHOTOGRAPHY, CLEARED FOR PUBLICATION, CREDIT LINE TO READ, ‘OFFICIAL U.S. NAVY PHOTOGRAPHY, BY OLIVER, W.H. PHAN’”
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