RE: TOM BRETT'S DESIGNS-UPDATE
OK...I've been preoccupied with the Simla project, now lets get back to the topic and hand. In regard to the article about Nimbus 1 shown above, Helen e-mailed me with some extra information about it:
In regards to the photo of Nimbus from the scrapbook It was in Aero Modeler, a magazine from England, I think. Ed Johnson owns a big hobby emporium in London and was here on a tour of America. I think he was at the meet mentioned in the article where Tom won first place and was impressed with the way the plane looked and performed. Tom had prints made for him to take back and that is how Stuart was able to build his first Nimbus. By the time we got to the Internationals there was a Nimbus in the contesst flown by a young P Louis. It is the original Nimbus, the one that got Tom on the team in Philly and the one that crashed shortly after returning home, hence Nimbus II.
As always thanks for the eye-witness clarification.
Duane