I agree. I'm working on a Phaeton 90 at the minute because I didn't think I was up to the Pup (I like to scoot out and fly after work and a bipe with wires would use up my daylight). It's on the menu, though. I need a WWI bipe, as does everyone.

I even have a Pup story. Back around 1980/81 my wife and I went to Rheinbeck Aerodrome. It poured. Rain, rain, rain. The hangers were open so we wandered around and ended up at their Pup. I was admiring it and a fellow in bib overalls walked in and started talking to us. Turned out to be his airplane (I think his name was Dave?). He hoisted my wife into the cockpit (she was and still is a looker, but then I have love goggles and she still looks 25 to me). Anyway, I was using a borrowed lens on my Nikon and took a bunch of photos. Thanked the man profusely.

When I got home I found I had aparantly not dropped the aperature pin into the little Nikon "horns" that were functional on the old series lens I had borrowed even though my newer Nikon was "Auto Indexing". AAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHHH! A roll of underexposed darkness.

Still, it was a great day. Takled with Cole Palen. Helped him roll an Albatros to make more room in one hanger.

Grandpa was a coppersmith at Morse Chain Works in Ithaca, NY and worked on the Thomas-Morse Scout. I have a watch fob he made of a 2" model (with spinning prop). I also have his tool box with a US rondel on the lid. If BUSA kits a quarter scale T-M Scout I'm on it like ugly on a gorilla.