ORIGINAL: BtnFlyGuy
Five million? And I let mine get away? ...(crap)
This is an ad from the September 1955 issue of American Aircraft Modeler (my birth month and year).
OK if I file that picture of your dad's plane (is that you?) for use in my Blog? I'd appreciate any background on it or how you got to be a Ukie flyer so I don't have to guess...[img][/img]
Troy
BtnFlyGuy's Blog
Hi,
Yes, you can use that photo. It was taken by a pro photographer for the Navy and was used as a cover photo for an internal Navy pub. I've never seen the pub. The photo is my Dad and myself, I was 8 years old.
Dad taught me to fly C/L models when I was four. (I still have my old Ringmaster Jr. called Pinky. Mom and Dad built it when they lived in a converted chicken coop, they didn't have enough color dope to paint it so they mixed the pink from red and white on hand.)
I flew in the Navy Nats from '66 to '72.
Chris...