Hi Steve,
Thanks for those pictures!
The bottom one, white and blue trim USA-1, is Billy's FIRST one! And it is before he cut the big scallop in the rudder/fin. That picture verifies the USA-1 as pre 1970. And Billy told me years ago that he cut the rear end before '69 was over, and had a *dated* picture to prove it.
One of them looks very *Kostecky"ish"* (MACHS NA)
Bill
OK< Donaldo,
Produce those close ups of that USA-1 wing! That paint scheme disappeared with the huge chunk of rudder (and refinish)! LL~ LL~
"Machs Na" is Big Art's 1969 NATs plane. Around 620 squares, McCoy 40 power, bicycle landing gear with wing tip outriggers. I think I have a couple other pix somewhere...
Shultzie,WOW STEVE....
These are for you.
Ok, so what is the blue one? I really like it.
"Machs Na translates to "try & copy this" or Imitate this. The words were inscribed on a cathedral in Switzerland by the architect.
Founds some more pix. It was difficult to get a good picture of it - Dad used pearl in all the colors and it always seemed to glare and burn out the pix.
1st pix is a 3/4 shot that shows the cheek cowls that enclosed the McCoy 40. Incidently the canopy (wrapped celluloid) was tinted black not painted.
2nd pix is from an polaroid, it has darkened so I tried touching it up. Anywho its a reasonable plan view shot.
Whenever we show off a pix of Dad from back then, we say this is "Big Art" when he was still "Medium Art". This pix came from Wynn Paul and shows the curvaceous fuselage (guess why we called it the Banana or the Guppy!) and the tandem landing gear with wing tip skids. The landing gear were each dual wheel bogeys on spring loaded shock absorbing gear.
Last pix is another one from Wynn, taken at the '69 NATs. This one shows Dad with the Machs Na and LeRoy Guenther with his Galaxy - ANOTHER bird that soon to be documented!
Roger that Blue Jet - the AMA number confirms the ID! I seem to recall that it had a rib about every 1/2" and the metallic blue just sparkled. Of all the airplanes Jack published - why not this one??? ??? Donaldo, I THINK that it was at the '69 NATs - like the other 3 Steve K posted.
I will risk swelling Schultzie's head by publicly stating that his Sting Rays were on a SHORT list of my favorite birds ever - with or without wheel pant! 8) CLP** H^^
BTW the white bird with orange & black trim is on a list that Wynn Paul has not been able to identify... Anyone out there know?
Idunno, they say the memory is the second thing to go (I forget the first!) but I placd Jacks Fly Baby at either the 1970 or 1971 NATs in Chi-town???
BTW here's another pretty-OK Sting Ray...!
Idunno, they say the memory is the second thing to go (I forget the first!) but I placd Jacks Fly Baby at either the 1970 or 1971 NATs in Chi-town???
BTW here's another pretty-OK Sting Ray...!
WAY TO GO STEVE!!!Tell me more about Guther....is he still with us...and what is he doing these days....
I set a little goal for myself to document the DEEEtroit area stunters from the Classic era that I was familiar with: Leroy "Gunny" Gunther. was like another member of the family. He used to spend a lot of time at our house building - and he built a bunch!
Here's another one of Gunny's bird - actually pre-dates the Galaxy by a year. The United-7 started out as a plans built bird (see if you can guess, the wing and stab are stock) but then he changed the top block, cowl, fin and several other things - in short he "united" features from 7 airplanes - but for the life of me I do not remeber which 7!
Tell me more about Guther....is he still with us...and what is he doing these days....