I got a real treasure trove of Cavalier related stuff last week. Flew a Barron up to 1H0 and got a set of unassembled tip tanks (that I hope to be able to recreate) and various other parts, along with a bunch of black and white photos of a build, and years of Cavalier Club News letters and an excellent collection of news letters from a fellow out of San Antonio TX called "Wood Air-Crafters", by a fellow named E.M. Thornsberry all from the early 70s. Unfortunately the weather was about to fall on us so we could not get to see their museum, or the Emeraude a nice fellow just finished and offered to show us. We barely made it back before the ice and the snow hit.
Reading through the newsletters has been wonderful and also pretty eye opening.
Its all the same stuff! "Can't find Sitka", "That's is too expensive", "What glue is best?", "Thinking about using fir.", "What engine?", "so and so is not trustworthy", and best of all a bunch of very helpful "Here is the best way to do..."
All in all, I love the newsletter format they used and how well written it all is.
All the articles (often written by contributing subscribers) are all so carefully written and thought out, often with photographs and drawings (am I the only one who often prefers a good drawing to a photo?) I now understand how these guys were able to build such incredible aircraft with fairly simple Craftsman tools and machines they all got a Sears and without the internet.
There are a few prices scattered about, and I have spent a little bit of time playing with an inflation calculator and to my surprise, most of what I have looked up is really about the same. A few are now available for less.
Pretty sure we have all had this look on our faces before.
Reading through the newsletters has been wonderful and also pretty eye opening.
Its all the same stuff! "Can't find Sitka", "That's is too expensive", "What glue is best?", "Thinking about using fir.", "What engine?", "so and so is not trustworthy", and best of all a bunch of very helpful "Here is the best way to do..."
All in all, I love the newsletter format they used and how well written it all is.
All the articles (often written by contributing subscribers) are all so carefully written and thought out, often with photographs and drawings (am I the only one who often prefers a good drawing to a photo?) I now understand how these guys were able to build such incredible aircraft with fairly simple Craftsman tools and machines they all got a Sears and without the internet.
There are a few prices scattered about, and I have spent a little bit of time playing with an inflation calculator and to my surprise, most of what I have looked up is really about the same. A few are now available for less.
Pretty sure we have all had this look on our faces before.
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