Paul Byrum

BILL WINTER is known to most of us as a designer of all kinds of RC models, though lately most have been of the electric-powered variety. In the old days, however, he was a prolific designer of rubber-powered Free Flight Scale models. My interest in the Curtiss SOC-1 Seagull was spurred into action when I saw a picture of it done as a beautiful little Rubber model in this magazine. The caption indicated that Bill had designed it and that it had become the favorite of all his designs. My experience in modeling has been that if a given design makes a good rubber-powered Free Flight model, it will scale up very nicely to a Giant Scale RC model.