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Title: SIG booklet
Post by: john e. holliday on January 12, 2025, 05:33:56 PM
Was getting ready to recycle more paper,  books, magazines and newsletters and I picked up a little SIG booklet.  It has a short history of how Glen Sigafoose got started.   Also how they got into full sizr planes.  Pictures and notes about various others also. D>K
Title: Re: SIG booklet
Post by: Dan McEntee on January 13, 2025, 09:25:48 AM
  Hey Doc!! Don't throw that into the recycle bin!! I wouldn't mind having an extra copy of that. let me know what you want for it and I'll send you my address!!
  I got a message the other day that Hazel had to move out of her house and into an assisted living facility, and the house and contents were being put up for auction. I don't know if that included SIG Field or not but don't think so. I think hazel will be 103 or 104 years old in February of March!

   Type at you later,
    Dan McEntee
Title: Re: SIG booklet
Post by: john e. holliday on January 14, 2025, 01:17:44 PM
Sorry Dan,  I am going to hang on to this as well as the award she gave me at the last SIG contest I was lucky enough to attend. D>K
Title: Re: SIG booklet
Post by: Paul Smith on January 14, 2025, 02:58:53 PM
Lucky for me, I got motivated to go to Sig for one of their contests.

Mrs. Sig had the modelers tour her entire complex - except the sawing building, which was classified Top Secret.

I liked the 150-year-old printing presses used as die-cutting presses.  They could rip through a stack of blanks at 30 hits per minute, which beats the hell out of laser-cutter or plastic printer.

Also the wire-bending tools that shaped landing gears powered by a hydraulic cylinder. 

Hazel said that the key element in balsa-buying is to permanently employ a trusted dedicated balsa  buyer in Equador.  Otherwise, you just get the crap that Sig won't buy.