Career
He was well known for his many plans published in the magazines Model Airplane News, Boys" Life, and Aeronautical Modeller in the 1960s. He was once featured as a daredevil glider pilot on the 1973 television series Thrill Seekers. He designed the ROHR Two-175 Experimental Aircraft almost put in production to compete against the Cessna 172 in 1971.
The Flying Aces model club of Washington has held a Walt Mooney Memorial model airplane meet named in his honor.
Piper Pennsylvania 25 Pawnee,with Plan, by Walter Mooney Model Airplane News, December 1965, Volume 72, Number. 6
List of Mooney Plans
Walt Mooney on FF - Scale from January 1974 American Aircraft Modeler.
