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Title: Anybody know who this is?
Post by: Les McDonald on April 02, 2014, 11:17:34 AM
 Someone sent this to me and I don't have a clue but--------
I told him "I know people" so maybe I can find out through you guys.
Looks like Florida in the sixties, that's the best I can do.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Color-Photo-B1917-Man-on-lawn-holding-model-airplane-glider-/291115680101?ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123
Title: Re: Anybody know who this is?
Post by: Mark Scarborough on April 02, 2014, 11:58:41 AM
but Les,, its a glider,, *cough cough*,,
Title: Re: Anybody know who this is?
Post by: ptg on April 02, 2014, 01:44:58 PM
Looks like Bob Whitley.  If it is, he probably thought it was a glider until someone told him he could put an engine in it.  Changed his whole world!
Title: Re: Anybody know who this is?
Post by: Mike Scholtes on April 02, 2014, 02:06:50 PM
No, it's Ron Swanson from TV show "Parks and Rec," holding a very rare I-beam FAI towline glider.
Title: Re: Anybody know who this is?
Post by: bob whitney on April 02, 2014, 03:41:37 PM
Deff not a glider,  it is an I-Beam Stunter, big front end missing the spinner
Title: Re: Anybody know who this is?
Post by: Robby Hunt on April 02, 2014, 04:03:54 PM
No, it's Ron Swanson from TV show "Parks and Rec," holding a very rare I-beam FAI towline glider.

"Old I-beam wings...they're beautiful."
-Ron's pyramid of greatness
Title: Re: Anybody know who this is?
Post by: Crist Rigotti on April 02, 2014, 04:07:15 PM
Here's the picture.
Title: Re: Anybody know who this is?
Post by: Mike Keville on April 02, 2014, 05:57:05 PM
'Charles', maybe?
Title: Re: Anybody know who this is?
Post by: wwwarbird on April 02, 2014, 06:01:51 PM
'Charles', maybe?

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Title: Re: Anybody know who this is?
Post by: Mike Scholtes on April 02, 2014, 06:20:26 PM
The red Ranchero or El Camino out front and the '65 or so Chev in the driveway, plus sideburns and mustache, put this right around 1970. So whoever that is, he's 44 years older now. Could be nearly any of us on this forum. Houses look very California ranch style so I'm going with a California model builder.
Title: Re: Anybody know who this is?
Post by: billbyles on April 02, 2014, 06:22:57 PM
'Charles', maybe?


Could be...the airplane is unfinished & probably never was.
Title: Re: Anybody know who this is?
Post by: RC Storick on April 02, 2014, 06:24:58 PM
Well I have looked at this and I think its a old friend of mine. Rob Gow but I am not sure its only been 40 years sense I last saw him.