Fixit Wright...

[Bootlegger]

  O K Guys, tell your stories about Fixit Wright, I remember some, but want to hear yours..  Thanks,

[Mike Haverly]

Doesn't he live in Southern California?

[Dennis Saydak]

Wright now he lives in Washington.   

[dennis lipsett]

Who cares about fix it right. I only remember Bunny, LOL

[don boka]

Right on Dennis!
Bunny is the only one I remember as well. There were others?
Don Boka.

[Steve Helmick]

I remember Bunny and Connie Conrod, but no Mr. Fixit Wright.    Steve

[Bill Mohrbacher]

The oft requested pinup; Bunny didn't look so good though

[Bill Mohrbacher]

From June 1956, Fixit, Tailskid, and a better looking Bunny.  I was all of 13 and built my first Fox 35 powered Ringmaster the winter after this mag was out.  Silk and dope finish, cost a fortune for the silk and all the dope needed to seal it!  When it was ready to fly in April of 1957 we had a holiday from school, but the ballfield was a sea of mud.  I built a set of Bunny's mudwalkers.  We fired up the Fox and I tried to run out to the handle, making big glops of mud on the way out.  When my buddy released the ship, the lines caught on a piece of mud and turned the plane directly towards me as it took off.  I couldn't run back being stuck in the mud and the Ringmaster shot past my head damned near knife edge.  I thought of all the time to build it, learn to silk it with no wrinkles, and how mush it cost me.  I just held on with both hands.  It got to the end of the lines with a huge jerk, but the bellcrank stayed in and I got control and actually did my first real loops.  What a great plane after my Sterling Messerschmidt with the Veco 19.

[Bill Mohrbacher]

Like Danny Banjock, Connie loved his Dynajets and like Larry, his Blast

[Mike Keville]

Yeah, but ya' gotta' remember: Fixit, Tailskid and (especially) Bunny) were back in the era of real model airplanes -- long before R/C, imported foam electric crap and (gag) drones invaded and ruined the hobby.  (Yes, hobby, not "sport", as some would have it.)

Them wuz the good ol' days.

[john e. holliday]

Mike, you forget that real Radio Control was being done long before control line.  It was hard to get into and not published that much back then.  The advent of citenzenship frequencies did radio take of  also with the help of ARF's.   I do remember the few strips of the cartoons in what issues of Flying Models I could get.

[dennis lipsett]

Yeah, but ya' gotta' remember: Fixit, Tailskid and (especially) Bunny) were back in the era of real model airplanes -- long before R/C, imported foam electric crap and (gag) drones invaded and ruined the hobby.  (Yes, hobby, not "sport", as some would have it.)

Them wuz the good ol' days.

It is fun to remember the past. It  is tragic to live in the past

[Mike Keville]

It is fun to remember the past. It  is tragic to live in the past

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Opinions vary.   

[dennis lipsett]

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Opinions vary.

True.........fortunately