Olin Brown

The February 1957 American Modeler published a magnificent Walter M. Jefferies Jr. four-view scale rendering of a rare little craft that we've always thought to be a classic: the Cessna OE-2 Bird Dog II. Over the years, our copy of this drawing was shuffled from house to house and drawer to drawer, but it kept popping up to remind us that someday, we ought to model this striking little plane. Well, after thirty-something years of faithful reminding, we finally recovered the little dog-eared Jefferies drawing and decided that someday had arrived!