Letters to the Editor: Ah, the Good Old Days
Enclosed a photo taken at Teterboro when it was a flying site, around the turn of the Forties. Everyone was building Crutches. Of course, they were mostly Ohlsson powered (3 sizes). Occasionally a Bantam showed up. Ben wasn't making too many then. Bunch and others were to be seen. So what do I do, like Sal, make one for my Forster 99. Using a pine crutch about 3/4 or 1" built a 105 oz. monster. It flew perfect with no adjustments, using large "D" batteries for airbourne ignition. It flew to the left under power and glide. A real Sunday flier, always in sight. Even to the end when the wing met up with a sapling which removed part of the right wing leaving only 6 feet. I have a Viking fuse covered now. The wing is framed but Silkspan not on yet.
