Richard Miller
11-06-2002, 01:45 PM
Y'all,
If you haven't tossed out yesterday's copy of the New York Times retrieve the Science section and turn to page D4. There's a picture of a couple of grandma's crossing the Sheep Meadow, Central Park, and right between their heads is the little mound from which I used, in years now long long past, do test glides, as with the Thermic 50 when I was trying to find the right kind of turbulator.
I thought all of you should see that!;) It seemed very important that you should know that way back in 50s Richard was out in the park, flying his gliders, his little .02 powered Sopwith Camel with the pendulum control, his 1/2A Starduster, other airplanes I now forget what they all were. Of course I know I was fooling myself. I mean about it being important to anybody but me.
But then I thought about you, those of you as old now as I was then, and how things would look to you 45-50 years on down the line. Can you begin to imagine what will come to pass in that time? Can you imagine what models will be like, and the power sources, and the means of letting all the others know what you're doing? The mind boggles!
Incidentally, 20 years before my time in the Sheep Meadow Frank Zaic and his buddies were there, bunches of them, flying models. Don't know about Frank Zaic and the Year Books? You might want to inform yourselves. [Try HannansHangar.]
And you Dave.! Just when I got myself more or less adjusted to the fact I am unable to build and fly just now, you have to come along with that little 13" Pnut that looks like a world of fun.
-Richard
Who, P.S. stuck in some Smilies that didn't seem to take.
:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
If you haven't tossed out yesterday's copy of the New York Times retrieve the Science section and turn to page D4. There's a picture of a couple of grandma's crossing the Sheep Meadow, Central Park, and right between their heads is the little mound from which I used, in years now long long past, do test glides, as with the Thermic 50 when I was trying to find the right kind of turbulator.
I thought all of you should see that!;) It seemed very important that you should know that way back in 50s Richard was out in the park, flying his gliders, his little .02 powered Sopwith Camel with the pendulum control, his 1/2A Starduster, other airplanes I now forget what they all were. Of course I know I was fooling myself. I mean about it being important to anybody but me.
But then I thought about you, those of you as old now as I was then, and how things would look to you 45-50 years on down the line. Can you begin to imagine what will come to pass in that time? Can you imagine what models will be like, and the power sources, and the means of letting all the others know what you're doing? The mind boggles!
Incidentally, 20 years before my time in the Sheep Meadow Frank Zaic and his buddies were there, bunches of them, flying models. Don't know about Frank Zaic and the Year Books? You might want to inform yourselves. [Try HannansHangar.]
And you Dave.! Just when I got myself more or less adjusted to the fact I am unable to build and fly just now, you have to come along with that little 13" Pnut that looks like a world of fun.
-Richard
Who, P.S. stuck in some Smilies that didn't seem to take.
:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: