I'm David Davis, friend of Ioan's from Shrewsbury in Shropshire, England's most rural county so we've more space to fly in than most of our countrymen!
I built my first flying model, a rubber powered Keil Kraft Ajax when I was about 11, followed by a Keil Kraft glider. Neither were very impressive and I would have given up the hobby if I hadn't then bought a Mills 75 with my paper round money and a Veron Cardinal. Having always been a bit of a stylist I wanted the fuselage in purple with yellow tissue covered wings but you couldn't get purple dope in those days so I mixed some red and blue dope and it came our brown! I took it to a local derelict airfield with my father and his brother, there was no wind and we could fill that thimble of a tank and the model would fly till it was a tiny cross in the sky, then the engine would cut and it would glide down to land a few metres away from us. That was fifty-two years ago, the sex-n-drugs-n-rock'n'roll years intervened and during this time I only built one model, B.Sichi's control line Sopwith One-and-a Half-Strutter, the only scale model I've ever built. Then one day when I was in my forties, I saw a man flying a model aeroplane in a field and the love affair started all over again.
I'm going to build Roy Scott's BE2e over the winter because I found out many years ago that one of Manfred von Richtofen's victims had the same name as me albeit with a differently spelt surname.
Be sure and run a thread on your Be - that would be fun to watch come together!
__________________ Jeff
Castro Valley, CA
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Let me know if I can help
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