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Old 12-29-2006 | 01:09 PM
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ORIGINAL: djlyon

K&B Infant .020 about 1951 or 52. Lost it on a little Berkley free flight.

Denis

Along about '48' or '49' my then girl friend gave me the little K&B .020 for my birthday. I put it on a little profile free-flight from I think Berkley. It was (I think) a copy of the full size Korda powerhouse. Anyway, a friend and I took it out to the local airport, fired it up and away it went. It was OOS by the time it ran out of fuel, but we caught sight of it as it descended. It then caught a thermal and we chased it about three miles in a car till it flew over an Associated pump station with a lot of trees around it. That broke up the thermal and the plane finally landed in fine shape. It's first and last flight as I soon joined the Navy to see the world ........RJ