RE: Bring Back the Bridi Trainer 60
I just found an old photo of Bob Boess, my R/C flight instructor at the RC BEE's field. Bob always had a scratch built, 0 dihedral, highly modified, over powered and tuned piped Trainer 60 at the field. This one was a light ply fuselage, painted by his wife, who was an artist. She painted all his planes including the Christian Eagle biplane that he flew, and sadly crashed after this photo was shot (another student used his radio for a buddy box and reversed the ailerons![&o]). I'm guessing this was photo taken in the winter of 1982, showing the legend doing what he did best. He was the king of touch and goes and slips to landing, and always taught me that anyone can fly a plane but not everyone can land one well. He spent hours perfecting the latter and we watched his every move.
This was also the first day I took my Bridi 40 trainer to the field and Bob took her up for the maiden flight. He was doing the flying, but as I recall, my knees were still knocking!!!