Hi, Jim,

Where is Shelby, Ohio?
I'm in Indianapolis right now, over the Memorial Day weekend.
Will be going back home to San Antonio sometime next week.
(Whenever my wife and grandkids decide.)
I was stationed here at Fort Benjamin Harrison and used to
make it over to Dayton every year while I was here.
Retired from the Army at FBH in 1980 at 20 years.

I have a McCoy Redhead .35 that I bought in 1962.
Had it in a Sterling Waco Cabin that I taught my son to
fly with. Flew it so much that the plane finally got so
fuel-soaked it started falling apart.
Sometime in the late '70s, before McCoy sold out to Testors,
I got a new matched piston, cylinder sleeve and gasket set.
It still has plenty of compression and runs fine.

Also went through a few Ringmasters, from the 1/2A
Baby Ringmaster, the Ringmaster Jr, the Ringmaster 35,
and the Ringmaster Sportster. I thought the Sportster
was really neat with the tricycle gear.

There's only one shop in San Antonio that carries the GMA
all-castor fuel mix for vintage engines. The manufacturer
up in the Austin area won't do individual retail sales, even
if I drive up there to buy it from them (about 70 miles).

GMA used to live just a few miles up the road from me,
and I was really saddened when his obituary showed up
in the SA Express-News. The last e-mail I got from him,
he said that he wasn't doing too well. Back when I was
in high school in the '50s, I used to watch him flying in
the Coliseum parking lot ... Man, was he impressive!

Hope I can get together with you for an eyeball before
heading back South.

73,

Harry, K5HML
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