I have found someone who is going to take the planes and is a good cause.

[Mike Griffin]

Folks I have been quietly working in the shop getting ready for next years kit offerings and remodeling my shop.  That is a never ending project I might add.  I have some ambitious plans for next year and some new ways of offering products to you and it has become apparent I do not have time to do much flying anymore so I am going to deplete a lot of my personal inventory that I either have not used or used very little.  I have planes I have built that I have never flown and engines in them that have never been started or only started once to make sure they would start.  None of my engines are broken it.  With the exception of about 3 airplanes, I want to give away the planes I have built to a good cause but the problem is shipping.  If anyone local would like to have the planes and wants to pick them up please come get them.  I have a Walter Umland Spitfire kit already built, A Ringmaster (scratch built by me), A Profile Adams Special (scratch built by me), A Veco Papoose that was a Larry Richards kit, A scratch built Forerunner, a Bi Slob, a Humongous, and a Rayette.   All these planes are completely built and finsished.  A couple need some touch up but are all flyable right now.  The only thing you would need to do is put an engine in them.

I have taken the engines out of them and have advertised them as a package deal in the classifieds if you are interested in them.

I would be happy to take pictures of the planes and post on here if you all want to see them.

Mike

[Jim Oliver]

Does this mean you're gonna make a kit of the Bill Boss Guardian for Carrier Class II?  I hope!!

Thanks,
Jim

[Mike Griffin]

Hi Jim

I need to get with you on this later...

Mike

 

[Terry Bolin]

Dont give away your favorite plane.... you will have a day when you want to go fly....hang one from the rafters.

[Jerry Leuty]

I am sure that your time is quite limited and your business requires a lot of it. I have seen over the years that when a man goes into the business of his hobby that soon he loses interest after a few years. When he sells out he is gone never to be heard from again. And that is OK too. When I returned to this sport back in 1999 I was looking for someone who would sell me a plane. I had a couple of worn out engines I just needed a plane. Well everyone here in the Fort Worth/Dallas area was in love  with their planes and would not sell any. So I visited a hobby shop and purchased a Banshee and a Super Chipmunk kits. The Banshee first flew on a very windy Memorial day weekend. The flying came easy after a 20 year absence but I wondered just how I was going to land the thing in the high winds. Along came a DMAA club member and watched me flying. He gave me a gallon of fuel and bid me good luck. Well that plane took a real beating during that year. The S/Chipmunk just went in a few months ago some 11 years later now. In the short of it is some retread will love to find you out in Ga. just to get a plane to start with. I have given away a few planes this year too. And I still have a couple that probably need to find new homes as well. I could stick some older FPs in them and send them off. I have found that if one is going to fly stunt and do it with any precision then they need good equipment to work with and not the junk we flew as kids. Shoot, RMs back then were $3.95 and a Mc Coy red head .35 was $5.95. We were building new RMs, Super Clowns, Fire Cats every week back then. I still remember the first time I flew my first RM with a .35 in it. Those 60' steel lines felt heavy and when the plane was launched I knew I had a real airplane out there. How neat that was..........Jerry