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Post by Roland of Gilead on Aug 25, 2008 13:22:47 GMT -5
What's the significance of the portrait of the man with the model plane? It looks as if it could have been done in the 50's, so it must have some meaning to you...as if it could be your father?
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Post by Shadout Mapes on Aug 26, 2008 23:11:15 GMT -5
Rico, Yes & No! That's not my dad, it's from about 1963, and it's Ed Kazmirski holding the "Taurus" low-wing, multi-channel/full-house control, constant-speed/pattern-ship, radio control competition aircraft. It was at a time when only just a few years before the first successful low-wing model with ailerons had been created called the "Astro-Hog" from a high-wing model called the "Smog-Hog". The "Taurus" was to be the most advanced model of its kind and the most well designed and elegant looking with it's long double tapered chord NACA 2419 airfoil to it lovely canted tailfin. It won the International competition in Belgian that same year and was then kitted by TopFlight. It set a new benchmark for rapid developments in aerobatic design and equipment over the following decade and a half. Well... I actually saw him at a local competition here in my area a little after that time and I knew he was an important man. He had a wonderful Adonisness about him, his profile and his movements, even just the way he would turn his head, a superman in his own right and so respected. My father had some interesting friends in the engineering fields, and I have always been an aeromodeler when I can enjoy it, it never leaves our blood. My father was boyhood friends with Bill & Walter Good "Good Brothers", they were the first in the world to fly a practical non-failure R/C aircraft in 1936 and then flew it for the first time that one was flown in national competition at the NATS. I met them too, and it's now in the Smithsonian museum. Oh... and that painting of Ed Kazmirski was from a foto a friend of his took of him that was the cover on the January 1963 Model Airplane News that year, one of the most famous covers. William & Walter Good "The Goods" and "Big Guff" www.modelaircraft.org/museum/bio/Good-Walt.pdffindarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3819/is_199802/ai_n8791372/pg_1www.rchalloffame.org/Exhibits/Exhibit01/index.htmlGoogle: Ed Kazmirski - Taurus www.modelaircraft.org/museum/bio/Kazmirski.pdfOh, and check this out where you can download the movie film from that 1963 Belgian Internats! The wind was outrageously gusty! www.rchalloffame.org/Video/1963Internats/index.htmlSo, ok... ><Tomasina ChicaWolverina!
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Post by shewolfe on Aug 27, 2008 3:42:18 GMT -5
Woah....Chica, you posted at 11:11! Weird cause I looked at the clock tonight at exactly 11:11 again. ;D
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Post by Shadout Mapes on Aug 27, 2008 10:41:26 GMT -5
Ahhhhhhh... Gee! ><Tomasina ChicaWolverina!
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