Dick Miller

ON JUNE 28-29, 1997 the Second Chance Squadron, SAM (Society of Antique Modelers) 100 of Lancaster PA, held what some contestants called the best-run, friendliest, and most-fun affair they had ever attended-Olde Birds Over Pennsylvania. The contest was held near Reinholds PA at the new and improved Cocalico Propbusters' field. The weather was perfect, the field was in great shape, and the organization was top-drawer, as were the honorees: Maxwell Bassett and Bill Brown. In 1932, those two men changed modeling forever by winning a contest with a gasoline-powered airplane later named Miss Philadelphia. Maxwell designed the victorious model and Bill designed and built its engine.