I just got off the phone with Charles Mackey. He told me that Wild Bill Netzeband Had a heart attack last saturday, and is not doing well. He is in the Inland Valley hospital located in Wildmar, California; they won't tell you anything unless you are family.
Wild Bill designed around 23 different airplanes. The most well known were the Scared Kitten, Half Fast, Hot Cinders, Jerkline special, Guardian, Equalizer, Fierce Arrow 400 ( and 3 other varients) Cats Paw, and the Doodlebugs. ( 3 or 4 of them)
Wid Bill wrote the Controline Capers column in Model Airplane News, and wrote for 32 issues, ending in 1965. Among the articles He wrote were How to test a stunt ship, How to fly stunt, Theory and the Stunt model. More about theory, and Pointers on stunt.
Wild Bill wrote the Round and Round column for American Modeler from 1963 - 1967. Among the articles he wrote are; How to select the proper glow plug, and wrote three articles about Controline Aerodynamics made painless, and among them was an article on the control system.
Wild Bill was also the chief engineer at Testor's for a number of years.
Wild Bill Netzeband is in the AMA Hall of Fame.
He is a great guy; I hope he recovers from this.