Yellow and maroon JUDGE is by Arty Myers. the design is by Gene Shaffer. Memory of a 14 year old. Gene schaffer's judge was orange.
Jose Modesto
Gene never did fly counterclockwise. The Judge in the photos that I posted is the one that Robbie Feinstein built at the same time that Gene built his, and that's Robbie holding it. The one I flew was Gene's ship that did indeed fly clockwise. Again, Robbie's is still in existence and I'm scheduled to pick it up so that I can measure it and draw plans for it. It was designed and built in 1967, so it is a legal Classic design - whether flown clockwise or counterclockwise... y1
Gene's flight box, by the way, was converted from a shoeshine box! I also liked it and I designed one that was just slightly larger to accommodate some of our modeling stuff better, and had one built by Jim Capstaff, owner of Capstaff's Custom Craftsmanship woodworking shop. Jim was also a modeler and he made kits of that box and sold them for several years. Lou Wolgast had one and it was getting old, so he had John Callentine make up a few kits of them. I have one of those in kit form if anyone is interested.
By the way, I'm pretty sure that the young gentleman sitting on the fence near the stuka-like model is Wayne Colgan.
Not sure how I "Lose out big time." Those were the very best years of my life, and flying and competing with those guys will stay vivid in my memory for the rest of my life. I'd say that I won big time! ;D
Later - Bob