history on paper

[dennis lipsett]

I'm cleaning up the shop and of course I had to move stuff to get to everything. I took a break and realized that the one container from  that time period had most of my plans from the early 50's on up. Plans from most of the suppliers and the well known designers and champions of that era. Total weight of that box was 70 pounds. Lots of speed, team racing, combat, free flight rubber, jetex , stunt and free flight Well you get the idea.
The bad thing is that there is another box that is heavier carrying me up to the modern era.
It is somewhat painful to realize that these will probably be discarded as trash. I have seen this happen when mentors from my early years passed on and their modelling equipment was basically thrown away.
I also have R/C plans from the 50's up to the present as I never throw any plan away. Three large boxes of plans
Regretably the era of kit or scratch building is almost over.
So who else is piled high with their stash of paper

[EddyR]

I did that four years ago when i was getting ready to sell my house. Gave away what i could but most went into trash. I had many of HalDebolt original hand drawn Rc plans,even the original AAsr plans.
Ed

[Paul Wescott]

I'm cleaning up the shop and of course I had to move stuff to get to everything. I took a break and realized that the one container from  that time period had most of my plans from the early 50's on up. Plans from most of the suppliers and the well known designers and champions of that era. Total weight of that box was 70 pounds. Lots of speed, team racing, combat, free flight rubber, jetex , stunt and free flight Well you get the idea.
The bad thing is that there is another box that is heavier carrying me up to the modern era.
It is somewhat painful to realize that these will probably be discarded as trash. I have seen this happen when mentors from my early years passed on and their modelling equipment was basically thrown away.
I also have R/C plans from the 50's up to the present as I never throw any plan away. Three large boxes of plans
Regretably the era of kit or scratch building is almost over.
So who else is piled high with their stash of paper

Dennis, you could donate the plans to Outerzone.  Steve and Mary (husband and wife) run a website where they post digital versions of all types of plans - where future generations can find, download, print and build older designs.  They have even spun off a site that does the same with old modeling magazines.  So if you can arrange to ship the plans to the UK, Steve will parcel them out to his volunteers who will scan them and clean them up.  I’d be happy to pitch in on shipping…

Paul W.