Aero Mail
If you have a letter to the editor, please submit it to MA Editor-in-Chief Jay Smith at 5161 E. Memorial Dr., Muncie IN 47302, or email to jays@modelaircraft.org or at www.ModelAviation.com/editor
More About Tom Brett
I’d like to thank all those who wrote to me about my article on Tom Brett in the November [2016] issue. If you enjoyed the article you might enjoy rare home movies of the period converted to video, with a “Tribute to Tom Brett” and the Detroit Invitationals from 1963-65. These are posted on YouTube.
The video also features many of RC Pattern’s pioneers from Pattern’s earliest days. Part Three of this series shows Tom flying his Perigee, and the only clip of the original TBX-1 being flown.
There is also a brief, narrated clip from British digital archives of the 1960 World Championship, showing Tom’s hands while [he is] flying his reed radio system. You will find it interesting. Type in “1kingaltair” to find the video, or you can find it on YouTube.
—Duane Wilson
Construction Series
I have really enjoyed reading the construction series. I am a long-time builder, but I always enjoy reading the construction series articles to see how other people do their building. After following the series, I dug out an older, partially built Playboy Senior kit that a fellow club member had started, but never finished. I am really enjoying working on it.
So please keep the construction series coming.
Thank you.
—Mark Thomas
Correction
In the “Windy City Warbirds and Classics” article in the November 2016 issue, the blacktop runway was stated to be 50 x 100 feet, when it should have been 50 x 800 feet (per the press release). Model Aviation regrets the error.
—MA staff
