I found this picture the other day. It's a shot of one of my Dad's early planes from 1946-47. It probably isn't later that 1947 because Dad's Christmas present that year was a new Dooling .61 and the O&R .60 was  then used in a Goldberg Sailplane. The picture was taken in front of my Grandparent's house on Orville in Kansas City, Kansas. I had the remains of the plans for this plane until they just disintegrated. I think it was called a Tornado. Sorry the picture quality isn't very good. I didn't have a lot of luck trying to make it better.

Mike

Way cool, thanks for the pic!

Gosh Doc, it sounds like we spent time at some of the same places just at different times. I remember going to City Park with my dad. Saw my first combat match there in the late '50s. We moved  to a brand new house on 83rd Terrace in Bethel in June 1962.  Dad and I flew mostly  on the baseball diamonds behind White Church Elementary in the late '60s. Once the bug bit, I spend way too much time in Charlie's Hobby Shop.    Dad took a job in Arkansas and we moved in Oct., 1969. The pictures were taken in 1970 or so. I rolled papers all summer in 1968 to make the money for the Kansas Twister kit that had set on the shelf at Charlie's Hoby Shop who knows how long. The ST .29 in it was a birthday present in 1968. I still have the plane and the engine. The dolly is long gone.

I started high school at Washington HS, although by then, Bethel was in the city. I know what you mean about how it's changed. I was up that way a couple of years ago and almost couldn't find my way around. When we moved to 83rd Terr. in 1962, there were two horses in a pasture behind the house. The pasture was still there when we moved in 1969 but it's long gone now.  I never heard that about Charlie! I don't think I ever met Dave Mayberry but given my memory anymore, I could be wrong.