Bob Meuser

SINGING of swans. My May column was supposed to have been my last. Then I got this frantic call from Associate Editor Ross McMullen asking where the heck is my column for the July issue? Anyhow, this is it. Seventeen years, almost continuously, counting Model Aviation's precursor American Aircraft Modeler. Chuck Broadhurst got me into it. I had four days to put that first column together from a standing start. It even had an inked perspective cutaway drawing in it. It has been hard work, fun, frustration, and satisfaction all rolled up into one, big, loppy-sided ball of wax. I do very greatly appreciate the help I've gotten from a great many of you in the way of contributions of newsletters, photographs, and material of various sorts. And I'm grateful for the opportunity to have met many of you through correspondence, if not on the flying field.