I was born and raised in Mayfield, Ky, just about 25 miles South of Paducah. My mom lived in Paducah and I would make the trip home to the Paducah contest occasionally to fly and visit with her. On one of those trips, Charlie, Allen and I met at the field in Paducah, and I had built a Rayette because I liked Allen's so much. Allen was flying mine and he had it inverted when the engine quit. Allen landed it very softly upside down and there was no damage at all to the plane except for the dowel pin that was glued to the top of the rudder and it came off and was in the grass somewhere. Allen and Charlie and I started looking for it and after about 10 minutes I called off the search but Allen would not give up. Allen must have spent an hour looking for that silly little dowel pin and I kept telling him to forget it. Funny how you remember things like that and yet I cannot remember what i had for breakfast yesterday. That day of flying with Charlie and Allen is just burned into my brain. I still miss Allen, a lot.
Topic: Good to see Charlie! (Read 833 times)
