Vintage Pic

[mike londke]

Detroit Combat Team

[john e. holliday]

Wonder how many are still with us and could give names.

[John Paris]

Is that Jim Morway 2nd from the left in the back row?

[Chad Hill]

Great pic, I would guess it dates to about 1970.

It's been a very long time, and the sunglasses make it harder to recognize, but here's my best guess:

back row: #4 Melvin Mathews, #6 Ron Columbo, #7 Al Dennison

front row: #1 Pete MacKenzie, #2 Mark Daniels, and one of the adults must be Claire Schumaker.

Again, my best SWAG, and probably some mistaken IDs on my part. Jim Morway rings a faint bell. The Rudner brothers should be in the pic too, but my memory fails me...

Chad

[mike londke]

Great pic, I would guess it dates to about 1970.

It's been a very long time, and the sunglasses make it harder to recognize, but here's my best guess:

back row: #4 Melvin Mathews, #6 Ron Columbo, #7 Al Dennison

front row: #1 Pete MacKenzie, #2 Mark Daniels, and one of the adults must be Claire Schumaker.

Again, my best SWAG, and probably some mistaken IDs on my part. Jim Morway rings a faint bell. The Rudner brothers should be in the pic too, but my memory fails me...

Chad

The guy in the cowboy hat is Claire Shoemaker. He was a founding member of the Detroit Aero Modelers RC club with my dad in 1974. I remember him well.

[Chad Hill]

Thanks, Mike. I thought that was him. Claire designed the "Laser", which was a popular fast combat plane with some of the Detroit flyers. I still have a copy of the plans he handed out. Melvin Mathews designed "Killer" which Barry Baxter has the plans for at: http://www.controllineplans.com/frameset2.htm

[Chad Hill]

John, I think that you are right about that being Jim Morway in the pic. I came across two Detroit Combat Team flyers that he mailed to me from his home in Hazel Park. They were stashed in some of my "kid stuff" that came from my mother's attic a few years ago:

[John Paris]

Chad,
Thank you for the confirmation.  I only knew Jim for about the last 13 or so years of his life.  There was a lot of combat history for him and I got to see a younger version of him in some of the pictures that were at his place and thought that it looked like him.
Regards,
John