The Inspector wrote:
Some got built, the owner painted a race number on it, and it corkscrewed itself into the ground on it's maiden flight, and it got page 2 coverage in the local newspaper.
YIKES!!
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| Author: | G-J van Wezel [ Sun Dec 26, 2010 6:31 am ] |
| Post subject: | looking for info and photo's |
Hello all I'm new and i live in holland. im bilding free flight airplane model's now a want to bild the Jack Lowers designed/built #66 and named it "idgets midget. so i found this very good info side so please do anyone have photo's of this aeroplane?? you can send them to gensvanwezel@knpplanet.nl thanks Gert-Jan van Wezel |
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| Author: | The Inspector [ Wed Dec 29, 2010 1:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: looking for info and photo's |
Welcome to WIX, is it possible for you to pin down the time frame this aircraft was around? Was it a 30's racer, a 40's? a GOODYEAR? Lots of folks built or started building racing airplanes over 107 years and if this one got no further than rolling the fuselage out into the sunshine for pictures before losing interest or bankrolling makes it pretty tough to locate. Some got built, the owner painted a race number on it, and it corkscrewed itself into the ground on it's maiden flight, and it got page 2 coverage in the local newspaper. |
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| Author: | Tiger Tim [ Wed Dec 29, 2010 3:23 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: looking for info and photo's |
Do you mean "Idjet's Midget?" A quick googling turned up this: http://www.princetonol.com/groups/eaa17 ... Midget.jpg -Tim |
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| Author: | G-J van Wezel [ Wed Dec 29, 2010 4:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: looking for info and photo's |
OKE SOME MORE INFO there is one photo in topic F1 race needs indentivication. its the N1312 with nr 66 out of 1968 so maby some one can help me |
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| Author: | The Inspector [ Wed Dec 29, 2010 9:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: looking for info and photo's |
Currently N1312 is assigned to a PITTS S1C, my guess is you've got some digging to do into the not so well documented history of air racing in the mid 60's back then, if it wasn't Reno it didn't get a lot of coverage. |
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| Author: | Apteryx [ Thu Dec 30, 2010 2:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: looking for info and photo's |
The Inspector wrote: Some got built, the owner painted a race number on it, and it corkscrewed itself into the ground on it's maiden flight, and it got page 2 coverage in the local newspaper. YIKES!! |
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| Author: | Apteryx [ Thu Dec 30, 2010 3:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: looking for info and photo's |
Welcome G-J, I've e-mailed you some 3-views, and a photo page from Robert Hirsch and Charles A. Mendenhall's books, and have more stuff available from the Carter-Kinert series, and Teglers's book. Let me know if you're looking for something specific, and I'll dig some more. There's a web site for (Goodyear) Formula One http://www.if1airracing.com/ They are not as active as WIX, but still have a few of the "old-timers" around... Paul |
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