Welcome, Dale!  That B-25 is still one of the most AWESOME C/L planes I have ever seen!

Today at our BWT RATS Boeing Wind Tunnel Retired Aerodynamic Testing Systems Engineering and Model Makers meeting and luncheon we had as a guest speaker...John Wimpress.
 John was the Director of Engineering on the amazing YC-14 program. Boeing experimental STOL aircraft that was tested in the early 70's & 80's. What a crowd teaser and pleaser' that YC-14 was to watch on its early test flights. Until you see that aircraft in full take off and landing performance mode....it is hard to grasp just how little runway space is needed...even when fully payloaded.

This meeting was scheduled for a two hour show...but the presentation was filled with pictures and video's of the YC-14 from the early drawing concepts.....to our model testing...to the final test flights and Combat evaluations. I had the pleasure of refinishing and refurbing the flutter model of that STOL that would be used as a demo display model.

HEY DALE...IF YOU ARE LURKING..... At todays meeting I sat with ROBERT "BOB" BATIE..an old control line speed flyer and a  retired windtunnel modelmaker and manager followed your modeling career and even flew with you at the nationals...years ago. HE SAID TO SAY HELLO! Gads...he loved Dyna Jets...