Hey! Shultzie's Avenger lives....NOT!

[Shultzie]

Just checking in.....
I can't believe its been so hurkimer' darn long since my last stunt article.
Go to American Aircraft Modeler July 1977 issue at read that weird article about my "Avenger Series"  models, that were influnced by Bob Gialdini, Dave Gierke, and Teddy Bear Fancher when were were just young kids!
 Uhhh? when a gallon of gas was-----about  .69 cents a gallon. My airline ticket to the 1969 nats was about $149.00 round' trip on Braniff.
Al Rabe was a Capt. for that same airline.....and never left the ground without that old Dark Navy Blue n' white Bearcat....or Mustang "taped to the back of his Captains seat of that old 727.

Gads that dates me....anyone alive today that can refresh my worn out ol' AeroGlossed fumed out brain cells?

AMA 36622..........Hey! I can't believe that after going to the "PAMPERS' TOY AIRPLANE SITE" that so many of my old flyin' buds....look so darned old?  (Hey Phil Granderson...didn't you have hair like this, back then....NOT!!! 

[RC Storick]

welcome you will like it here! No BS..

[Shultzie]

 
No BS? Hummmmm? 
Is that short for Balsa Shaving? 

[Shultzie]

welcome you will like it here! No BS..

Hey Bob!!!
Kannnabegga-cup of fuel? uhhh? may I borrow a jump start from that starting battery of yers...
Uhhh?

[RC Storick]

I'll do one better than that. If you are ever in St.Louis you can fly my S6B . I let Mr 69 NATS fly it this year. Bob Lamponie

[Shultzie]

Give my best to Bob and the gang...
I was sooooooooooo bummed to hear about Lou McFarland. What an ICON..
In the early 60's I flew a Shark 45 with a wondeful old ringed K&B 45 that gulped fuel...like it was goin' out of style n' profile.

I managed a  few throphy's with that old Shark, until I "took off the outboard wing at a contest at Boeing Field.
I hit a border stand...
I continued to keep flying anyhoo...I had already signaled for my first pattern, and completed half the pattern...and although  that old Shark had a horrific bobble and wobble--every time you turned a corner...I managed most of the pattern...but had to blow out of the 4 leaf clover and overhead 8...
(ALTHOUGH A SHARK RULES...IT FLEW PRETTY, PRETTY BADLY, WITH ONLY PART OF AN OUTBOARD WING AND FLUTTERING OUTTER FLAP.
However, I managed a really nice landing...anyhooo?
Hummm?
I can't believe that I still outflew two other flyers that rainy foggy day...from hell in a Seattle hand basket.
Wow! Were those two flyers really upset.

Ask ED KUNUTSON...for the details! (I havent heard from him in years!!

[Shultzie]

Gads...the last time I saw Parker...was at my Retirement from the Wind Tunnel Model Shop...where the good times...rolled for many years.

HA! MAN...does that Spokane internats...really bring back memories.
My wife and I stayed with Parker and his wife...at a Motel...where he worked ALL NIGHT LONG ON A MODEL...for the that next day.
We didn't get a wink of sleep the whole night?

I can't remember much..except???Didn't Joe Dill win that day..with his old Shark winged Crusader?
We were so darned tired from sniffin all thoses paint fumes...and the sound of his compressor, kept half the model AWAKE!!

Parker spilled can of thinner on the floor of the bathroom...and he ruined that tile floor. The floor tiles turned into a whitish'goo from hell...and we thought for sure that they would send us a bill...for damages...but luck has it that we paid cash for the motel...and Parker had moved to another address here in Seattle.

For years afterwards...I was sure that we would be sent a huge repair bill for the damage. Lucky for us...huh?

Those were the days...huh?
What are U up to these days?

Thanks for the cartoon kuuudo's? Fun stuff, and fun people who made it all happen...with the ideas...that just come naturally from all our addicted model addicts...LOL!
Don Shultz (exiled in Gig harbor.

[Shultzie]

I'll do one better than that. If you are ever in St.Louis you can fly my S6B . I let Mr 69 NATS fly it this year. Bob Lamponie

GADS!!! GREAT LOOKING MODEL...WOW! FANTASTICAL!!!
But...to fly that beautiful model...would scare me...shi-less! 

[RC Storick]

GADS!!! GREAT LOOKING MODEL...WOW! FANTASTICAL!!!
But...to fly that beautiful model...would scare me...shi-less! 

Abut 15 years ago I let Ron O'tool fly one of my planes, he hadn't flown in 25 years or so. He did a good job! You just don't forget, it is embeded into you forever!

[Shultzie]

Hey,. Shultzie, if you see Bob Parker, give him a slug on the arm for me. I miss your cartoons.  I believe the last time I met you was at the 1973 or74 Spokane Internats.  You don't know me from Adam.  But your planes, cartoon s and humor are missed. Welcome back. Now to get Fast Richard back into CL. He is back into FF for now.  Them was the days.

Yes, those were the days.
Thanks for the kudo's on the loonie-tunes.
Parker and I have waaaaaaaaaaay to much information on each other but I would just love to slug him on his flying arm.
Gads...I have not seen him since my Boeing Wind Tunnel retirement party.
Where Paul Walker, Parker, Letsinger...and a bunch of other old model addicts gathered at the Museum of flight...puke n' chuck' outside dinner.
U KNOW HOW MUCH PARKER SUN BURNS...HE WAS SICK FOR 3 DAYS AFTERWARDS. I TRIED TO GET HIM TO WEAR A HAT!
Those were the days...good bud!
Tell me more about your world...

Don Shultz (exiled in Gig harbor. Wa.)

[ptg]

Pic in 1974!  Thirty two years later and you still talk funny! 

For those who have never met or seen Don Shultz's airplanes..........He is a true ARTIST

  Only on weekend nights!

[Shultzie]

My dearly beloved brotha' PhilGREAT TO HEAR FROM YOU...

Gads....Carol, my kids and so many of your circle-burnin flyin' buds...really miss your humor and passion for life and it was always such an uplifting experience being around you.
We miss you greatly....

Thanks for including that photo of us....holding those shiney new models up the air.
 Gee, I can't believe we were ever that young?

 Thanks for the Kudo's about bein' a artists, However, Speaking of artists...
Phil, you had that amazing talent, to not only build a beautifully crafted and flying model...you had that special "MINDS EYE-BALL" in creating the most beautiful paint-color and trim schemes...that were always so ENVUS for all of us.  Talk about a piece of Airplane art!!!

HEY, GANG!
Just take a look at this photo of Phil and I together, YOU CAN PLAINLY SEE JUST WHAT A BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE, PIECE OF SKYART that ALWAYS SEEMED SO EASY FOR PHIL.
Betta'yet... HE HAD THE FLYING SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE IN HOW TO WORK THE BUGS OUT OF A STUNTER,  SEEMINGLY, WITH SUCH EASE?

Those beautiful models of Phils---BOTTOM LINE:---FLEW AS GREAT AS THE LOOKED!
 His talent for tuning a model...was something that we really missed around here, especially his ability to fly a model...and how easily he could pin-point a problem in a model so accurately.

Whether it be an engine, tank set up, airframe- CG location, leadout angle setting...choice of  fuel---etc. etc. We called him...THE STUNT DOCTOR!
HE WAS THE ULTIMATE TEST PILOT!!!

Never pass up the opportunity to have Phil help you with any thing related to the art of flying.

Phil somehow always made the art of flying---LOOK SOOOO ALARMINGLY EASY!

One can gain so much by simply watching a flyer....and you'll never see anyone who appears to fly with such calmness and ease, as PHIL!

 BEHOLD, BROTHA'S AND SISTERS...just watch Phil fly a pattern.... You would would swear that he almost wills--PART OF HIS SOUL--  down into  those shiney steel cables, through the bellcrank, down the push rods to the flaps n' elevators...down to the very model itself and that model of his, seemed to be litterally atuned and attached to his own mind, body, n' soul. Those beautiful models of his...HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO STRAIGHTEN UP...N' FLY RIGHT!!!

As much I enjoyed flying competition with PHIL...I must admit, that I am not alone when I say...how intimadating it could be,  if I were so unlucky in the flight order, that I was assigned to fly AFTER  PHIL, THE STUNT DOCTOR.

 Phil ALWAYS MADE FLYING THE PATTERN...LOOK SOOOOO DARNED EASY...LIKE A PIECE OF CAKE OR A WALK IN THE PARK.

(Phil!) Should we tell Ted Fancher, just how many flying hours we both managed to put onto that beautiful model of his, after he left it in the hands of our dear old stunt faaaather, Bob Emmett, that time Ted joined us for a contest at that Kent Aerospace Center...after the day this photo of us was taken?
 

[Chris McMillin]

Hi Don,
I always enjoyed your company way back when. You had the best looking Stingray ever back then. Dad says hi.
Chris McMillin

[bruce malm]

Hey Smotzie,

I stuck a post on here about old friends, after talking to you on the phone a couple of weeks ago. I'm sure glad you're on line and talking to everybody again. I guess if I hadn't moved to Sacramento and gone off to Viet Nam we would have competed against each other. Maybe in the future, but I'm afraid it will take me a long time, if ever, to get to that level.
If you're down this way, you've got a place to stay and a vehicle to use. If I get back up NORTh, maybe you, Potter and me can all get together for a fews brews for old times sake.

We sure were good times.

Bruce

[Shultzie]

Hi Don,
I always enjoyed your company way back when. You had the best looking Stingray ever back then. Dad says hi.
Chris McMillin

Chris.....Wow! Time flies...huh? We always looked forward to see McMillin & Gang. You both build such outstanding models...that always flew as good as the looked.
I don't know if you remember that my travelin' buds...Vance and Tim Dunlop. Anyhoo, Tim was the staff Captain of the Portland Oregon, Fire Department, and he passed away...waaaaaaay back in the early 70's and Vance...flew local model meets...but after his Dad died...neither Vance or even myself, seemed as passionate for building and flying.
My son Ryan and I get together and fly when the weather is right...or when he has the time. Other wise my planes, just hang there on the wall, for the memories, I guess.

I have some slides of your father....in my shoeboxes of slides...I will try and dig them out...and make some copies for you, for old times sake.

Thanks for the kudo's about those old Sting Rays I used to fly. Loved the way those models hung out there on the lines.....few models that I have flown since....feel as confindent in higher winds like Bob Gialdini's Rays....and they turned corners with such authority with our over-steer or bobbles-n' wobbles. (The landing gear placement was somethin' quite radical...and if you didn't land without your speed up...or weren't careful...and touched the nose gear first----WOW! Plus ya really needed a good cement runway or smooth blacktop.
Even had to "hand-launch" that Ray, on more than a few occations. Great for take off and landing points huh?
 
If you  have any photos you and Frank...that you can share via internet.
Send them along.
I'll do da same...

[Shultzie]

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If you're down this way, you've got a place to stay and a vehicle to use. If I get back up NORTh, maybe you, Potter and me can all get together for a fews brews for old times sake.

We sure were good times.

Bruce

It was really great hangin' trashin' with you, Bruce! You had such a great "can do it attitude" but most of all, you were an amazingly gifted builder and had the flying skills to go with it.
Our friend George Lieb was sooooooooo darned proud of you for choosing to build that model of his and use it for competition. With that beautiful model of yours...and with your gifted flying skills. I was certain you would be the next Gene Matheny or Ed Knutson...around here in the Seattle Tacoma area.
Then you moved........
Joe Dill, and Paul Walker...moved into town...and became the next BIG GUNS OF STUNT-DOME-DUMB...N'ALLTHATJAZZ.

[Steve Helmick]

Don...I took fuel and batteries to Sand Point on both Saturday and Sunday...(we had a great contest)...and you didn't show. Everybody was disappointed, especially PW. McClave and Rush were admittedly distracted by nudging PW out of 1st in Classic and Expert. We had the Stunt BellyDancers out for you, and they were really shakin' those booties! Your excuse had better be really good...
like stuck on the mudflats at high tide...    Steve

[Randy Powell]

I remember seeing you fly at Boeing once when I was just getting back into flying. Maybe 1982 or 3, something like that. Flying a really spiffed up Chipmonk. Red, white and blue metallic. That plane had quite an effect on me.

Glad to see you still around and interested.

[Shultzie]

I remember seeing you fly at Boeing once when I was just getting back into flying. Maybe 1982 or 3, something like that. Flying a really spiffed up Chipmonk. Red, white and blue metallic. That plane had quite an effect on me.

Glad to see you still around and interested.

Thanks for the kudies' about that old Chip. In fact, that photo with Phil Grander-my main manerson' was taken at that meet.
 
Talk about great models....Randy, my brotha'inbalsa.
I gotta say that your beautiful and artistic models are truly EYE CANDY FOR THE DEMENTED ADDICTED souls that are forever damned to fly around and around and around in circles. From your choice of beautiful design..to your choices in paint and trim schemes are works to BEHOLD!

Bye the way...I love that Novi-ish Elip'tickleee'd winged model of yours that I saw on the web site. Reaaaally outstanding.
(Uhhh? In fact the last model that I almost finished building was a Dave Gierke Novi 4  (but with a V tail )that I gave away......that ended up in the hands of a very skilled young flyer.

Hey. Steve, hold on to that cup of fuel...for me. I had planned to attend the Sunday San Point affair, but due to a family accident (my wife's 84 year old mother, fell----and we were up extreeeeeeemly late. due to the typical ER room experiences...where they deal with drug over doses first ya know...and OLD PEOPLE LAST...

oPPS Gotta run....