I would like to post my expreience and pay respects to a long time aquatience Eddie Kazmirski,
Living in the same town, I met Eddie and his brother Lenny in the late 40's,All of us had a passion for the Triumph motorcycle,Eddie being the machinist he was designed a Roots type
supercharger for the bike but always had problems with the pistons caving in,Discarding that project he got interested in model planes in the early 50's,My friend and I were in FF and Cl
and Eddie came over one day and wanted to know if we would help him get started,This was Eddie's begining to be coming a world champion and designer of model aircraft,I always felt his first lovewas in photography as in the late 40's he won many prizes from Chicago news papers.I always knew Eddie was at the top of the modeling world but do to his machine shop buissnes and my returning from service our paths never crossed until he came by our flying field in 2004,He called me and wanted to know if I could help him get started again in RC,I filled him in on all the latest equiptment and told him if he needed help let me know but in only a few weeks he called back and said he was just to shaky and didn't want to try it.
In the years of 2004,5,6 we shared many hours just setting around and Eddie would tell stories of his trips to Europe pretaning to his world championship and also of flights on the Concord jet,I will never forget Eddie as he was one of a kind,a person who was never satisfied
unless he was on top.Eddie was very excited when he came to the field one day and told me he had received a call from the AMA and that he was going to be inducted into the hall of fame,
I offered my congratulations but after his passing I went on the hall of fame site and did not see his name,If he is not added it will be a grave injustice,Rest in Peace
Bob