One more time, maybe I got it right this time. This is for You Bill Little.

QUESTION?

By chance if you have Juri Sirotkin posing with Bob Gialdini together in one of those issues?
If you could find and scan it...that would be great. I can't find that old photo...in the few copies that I kept.
Way back then I  subscriped to that wonderful little magazine....too bad I gave away most of those old issues to fellow modelers...although maybe Bob Parker still has them...TALK ABOUT THE ULTIMATE PAK-RAT! He keeps just about everything as long as Peggy doesn't catch him?

If my demented brain cells are correct.....I seem to remember seeing that model...DID NOT HAVE A CANOPY...and was strickly a  USSR professional working practice model. In those days I found it sooooooooooo amazing that these model builders and flyers...were paid by the Gov. as professional model makers...
(hummm? I always wondered what happened to the "flyers and builders that didn't live up to the expections of the USSR MACHINE? Where they sent into exile? or taken out and shot...or just used as human ginny pigs in medical experimentation.
Rumor has it.....one of their rejects who failed...was sent to Texas...where later on he became President of the USA?...(opps bad political message here..Sorry Sparky...the devil just made me do this?

Yes...that X bellcrank was somethin else...(but when you thimmmkee' about it...it did have some merit.

However the weirdest...funniest...but most frightening method of controling a stunter was in those early daze when the China-sponsored flyers....started showing up with their little
RING FINGA' AND RING GLOVED ADJUSTABLE FLYING GLOVE HANDLES?
Although they they had 'run away straps....I ALWAYS VISUALIZED WHAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED IF THEY SNAGGED THEIR MODELS ON SOMETHING. and would have to live the rest of their modeling lives with out a fore-or pinky finger???

(forgive the 20 sec. sketch!!! ouch)