Here is a detail of Darrell Bills and Andy Anderson..
Although this old drawing is filled with gifted model makers and Wind Tunnels that really made HUGE CONTRIBUTIONS during their incarseration career I would like to highlight a few exceptional Wind tunnel Jourman Model makers, Darrell and Andy, who all of us could rely on to smooth out the glitches during tunnel changes...
I had known Darrell Bills way back as far as 1961 or 62. In those days he was a well known electronic specialist in the photo processing industry where he received numerous patents for processing equipment and even more importantly he was involved in perfecting and upgrading the heart monitoring EKG systems that have saved so many lives.
However his first love was aviation and building CL stunt and scale models and later R/C slope soaring gliders...AND PERTAINING TO CL MODELS...
Darrell was even brave or fool harty enought to allowed me to test ride his amazingly beautifully built Kenhi Panther which ended up having a very very short life span. (Flying in a field laced with dandy's and daisy's..that his lines hooked on take-off.
Although he never joined AMA or flew in contests, his workmanship and building skills was out of the world.He did get a lucky ticket out of Boeing Early to enjoy his rather untimely death...and passed this life waaay too soon.
Darrell also loved motorcycles and his custom paint work was so creative.
Next below Bills is our Wind Tunnel lead Andy...shown below him in the drawing detail retired on that Early retirement loonie toon..... Andy sadly also passed away shortly after retiring. Too many years of smoking and sucking up too many toxic wind tunnel test chemicals.