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The Modeler's
12 Days of Christmas
by Jim Brooks
Dec. 14, 1974
"On
the first day of Christmas a 'true friend' gave to me,
An airplane in a high tree.
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2nd day |
2 splintered props |
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3rd day |
3 spring nose gear |
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4th day |
4 burnt-out glow plugs |
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5th day |
5 tubes of glue |
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6th day |
6 bent-up pins |
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7th day |
7 broken X-acto blades |
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8th day |
8 blowing gaskets |
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9th day |
9 crankshafts bending |
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10th day |
10 engines failing |
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11th day |
11 servos grinding |
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12th day |
12 planes a-glitching |
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Bardstown Aero
Modelers flight line, circa 1973-74. Left row from top,
unidentified balsa hand-launched glider; Panther III (meaning rebuilt
3 times) built by Denny Greenwell; Super Ringmaster, owned by Jim
Brooks; Super Ringmaster, built by Greg Young. Right row from top:
Flite Streak, built by Denny Greenwell, and Lucky Sport (aka "Big
Mo") built by Jim Brooks. Only the Panther, the dark blue
Ringmaster and the Lucky Sport survive of this group today. |
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