Here is another one of my favorites-the TB-1 from Tom Brett, (1962 world champ and designer of the Perigee). For those of you who don't know, Tom and I were both members of the RCCD, (Radio Control Club of Detroit), out in the suburbs. I knew Tom, but he didn't know me since I was this young teenage kid too shy to walk up to him and strike up a conversation. He always had a crowd of people around him. Tom was a meticulous builder, and his planes had a characteristic dark blue/light blue paint sheme with transparent yellow silk.

I distinctly remember this plane at the field one day, and saw it fly....it was "tre cool" to watch, with those swept wings and all. I believe he had his fuel tank positioned over the C/G because I remember he had a pressurized system of some sort. He used an air bulb to provide the pressure. I also remember him working on the plane, (I think a problem with the pressure system). It was on the ground with everyone standing above looking down on it.

I may be wrong, but I believe Tom took this plane to the 1965 Nats and competed with it. It was the last plane I remembered him flying before he left R/C in favor of full-scale aircraft. I don't think the design was all that competitive, but it sure did look neet. I may be wrong, but I think Tom's wife Helen still has the plane.

Tom was a spokesman for Hobby Poxy products...their line of epoxie paints and "STUFF", a creamy light-brown liquid used to fill loints and cracks.

Duane

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