The American Junior Folding Wing Glider
Jim Walker's Interceptor

The time was the late 1930's and aviation was still experiencing its growth from infancy. Model airplane enthusiasts were building rubber powered model planes and balsa hand launch gliders. Ignition engines were strictly used for free-flight and Jim Walker was developing U-Control. When Jim Walker introduced the catapult-launch folding-wing Army Interceptor in 1939, there was nothing like it on the market. It became an immediate success.

This is one of the few model airplanes that can lay claim to really being a war bird as it was commisioned for service during WWII. The popularity of the American Junior Interceptor was to last for many years. We look at the history of the folding wing glider from the original "Army" Interceptor to the reproductions produced by Frank Macy.

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