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The plain vanilla plane If you have not already heard, there is a


slight error on page 45 of the January issue. The aircraft shown at bottom right is not a DH84 Dragon Rapide. It is a plain vanilla DH84 Dragon. The Rapide was the later design with the


long pointed wings, and also known as the Dominie when used by the RAF and Royal Navy as Navigator and Radio Op trainers. An operator owning several earlier single


engine Fox Moths, prompted that owner to ask DH for a six-seat aircraft with twin en- gines, hence the Dragon. To speed devop- ment, the Dragon fuselage and center section used standard folding Gipsy Moth wings, which was a huge advantage in those early days of minimal hangar space, when many Britsh designs had folding wings necessary to fit into the usual UK “aeroplane garage”. To my knowlege, there is still a DHDragon


in the USA out west and is the aircraft which took my family flying in the ’60s. JIM NEWMAN Kent, MI


What an adventure This is a very long subject so I’m only go-


ing to put down a little—I’m 81 so my youth is a long ways back. During the depression my stepfather had


a job that made him travel to all the brew- eries that went bankrupt. In one town I saw a boy with a model airplane. Then my stepfather got a job with the Na-


tional Park Service at Casa Grande, an old Indian ruin three miles from Coolidge, AZ. I


saw FLYING ACES on one of our weekly trips into town and I bought it with one week’s al- lowance. What an adventure! Phineas Pinkham with his “Haawwww” and those models. I bought a kit at the dime store and another. At this time I was in the fifth grade; all I had was the magazine, but I finally bought a P-26 kit and it flew! I saved all those mags. Moved again—Santa Fe, then Omaha,


where I met my buddies. We built models. I still see one of my friends out here in CA. Working my way through Parks College of


Saint Louis U., USAF in the Korean War, GI Bill for graduate school, and finally assis- tant professor at Saint Louis U (Aerody- namics and Thermodynamics). Much later I was on the US Team Racing


team at the world champs in Hungary ... on and on. I retired as a “Chief Scientist” (a rank, not the only guy) at Raytheon Space and Airborne. Where would I have been if it were not for FLYING ACES? Sometime you might put just a little bit in


the mag as a sample from the past. Thank you and your predecessors for it all. PETE SOULE via e-mail


Brilliant! I've been struck by lightening or so it seems


after seeing and reading the article in Feb. 2012 issue on building sliced ribs. My impres- sion was, this is absolutely brilliant! Thanks and keep these types of articles coming! DAVID LENTZ


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