Originally Posted by
SrTelemaster150
I built a lot of those sheet balsa planes from kits & hung my Cox .049 Bee on them. I think they were Sterling kits. I bought my hobby supplies @ "Arts Camera Shop" on Burnumn Ave in Calumet City, IL. I remenber a single engine P-38 profile & a Focker D-VII. The Focker was really nice when I finished it but my 22 year old brother (I was 15) insisted on the maiden flight. He did a wing over on the first go-round & put it straight in on blacktop in the school yard.
Hi neighbor! I grew up in Munster, IN. I used to ride my bike down Ridge Road to the hobby shop in Lansing, IL on the south side of the street about a block before the movie theater. This was in late '40s through 1959 when I graduated from Hammond High. I started building solid wood models in Cub Scouts and have never stoped. For Christmas 1952 I got a Herkimer plastic control line plane with an OK Cub .049 in it. I spent many hours in the spring of 1953 learning to start and fly that plane. Then I found in, I believe, AAM magazine the plans for half A plane. It flew great and for 20 years I flew control line. Then in 1973 I got my first RC plane and I have been flying RC ever since.
Bruce