ORIGINAL: w8ye
My dad, right after WW II, rented Champs and 058's several times and took me flying when I was a little kid or 4 or 5. When I turned 18, I soloed a 7AC and got my flight instructors rating in a 7EC. Built model airplanes from 5 yrs old. Started out with the solid models. Could not pass a physical the last 25 years
my 9th grade homeroom teacher gave me plans for the German Primary trainer, see attached. I used to tow it up on a spool of my mom's sewing thread hooked around a sewing needle stuck into the bottom of the basswood skid. It flew beautifully. I scratch built a replacement two years ago I then graduated to the Thimble Drome P-40 ( I just bought this from the original owner on Auctionland), and then The Curtiss Pusher which I never flew because I didn't want to hurt it. I recently purchased this one and she will be a "henger queen" - cuse I don't want to hurt it either. my dad had a Dooling .61 race car and engine, a tether hydro with the Dooling in it, a Flying Clown, and a Thimble Drome Champion car with the Cameron .19 in it. I had a-lot of dog gone fun now that I think about it.
Bill