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Speed,Combat,Scale,Racing => Speed Talk => Topic started by: Ken Burdick on June 25, 2016, 12:01:03 PM

Title: Ugly Betty
Post by: Ken Burdick on June 25, 2016, 12:01:03 PM

can someone post a picture of Henry with Ugly Betty please....I know I have seen it but can't find now. Which contest did he turn 104 with it.

Thanks

Ken

Title: Re: Ugly Betty
Post by: Ken Burdick on June 25, 2016, 03:55:53 PM

maybe a hint of where the picture was posted?

Thanks

Title: Re: Ugly Betty
Post by: david smith on June 25, 2016, 05:39:58 PM

It was posted in the thread about the St Louis contest but I think the pic was lost when the site crashed. I got this from the Lafayette esquadrille website

Title: Re: Ugly Betty
Post by: Ken Burdick on June 26, 2016, 07:52:03 AM

Thanks Dave.
I appreciate the effort. If ANY picture should have been lost in the crash......this would be the one
 LL~

Ken

Title: Re: Ugly Betty
Post by: bob whitney on June 26, 2016, 05:07:15 PM

there is a lot of engineering under that Skirt

Title: Re: Ugly Betty
Post by: john e. holliday on June 26, 2016, 05:13:43 PM

Beauty is only skin deep.   I bet that plane has less drag than the ones with a 20 point finish.

Title: Re: Ugly Betty
Post by: Bob Heywood on June 27, 2016, 08:05:22 AM

Also from the Lafayette Esquadrille web site, photo by Fred Cronenwett.

The magnesium backplate / motor mount provides for a very stiff, light installation. This is good.

Title: Re: Ugly Betty
Post by: Ken Burdick on June 27, 2016, 09:46:45 AM

wow!
what a great picture.....thanks. A friend of Henry's and myself must have inspired this.....his name is Norm McFadden and is credited with getting the fuel regulator to work in the 80's. Norm is quite the Engineer and holds an MBA, Metallurgical and mechanical Engineering degrees....he is for sure a thinking mans thinking man. Anyway, he would make things that looked Bettyish  ....I mean totally functional, usually faster than imaginable, and every piece well thought out and solid.....it would just look like.....Betty. This is the guy who gave Duke Fox the formula for the correct crank to use in his combat engines, as Norm had designed, and built his own. Duke, of course ignored it. 
Anyway, thanks for the great picture!

K