Scale Aviator International Magazine Issue 3 | Page 73

Figure 2. Me again with the Camel infront of the main fabrication hangar......
These photos were taken on a bright, sunny day in actually told you that I lied! See?...what politician
January of this year.
would ever do that?!
I am trying my best to look like a seasoned pilot
here, but to be honest, aside from flying my RC
planes, and a bunch of simulators on my PC, the
closest I have been to being a real pilot is actually
taking over the controls on those introductory
flights in light sport aircraft. Hey!..it still counts!
But I digress. While you are checking out these
photos, I have a small confession to make to you
all. OK, to be more precise, I have several small
to rather large confessions to make about that
first article. I kinda lied in that article on several
key points. OK, maybe I lied about a lot of the
key points. To be even more accurate, that article
was so loaded with lies, that it would be quite easy
for any reader to believe I was actually one of the
candidates running for the presidency! However,
I can prove that I indeed do not have any sort
of political aspirations, by the simple fact that I

Now that we have all that cleared up a bit, you are
probably wondering just what I did lie about in that
first article. Well, in that article I told the tale of
a retired Lockheed-exec who was building a fullscale reproduction Sopwith-Camel WWI biplane.
That was a lie. To be fair, I actually do know a
retired Lockheed exec who restores and flies
Golden-Age biplanes. However, the individual in
my tale is no more than a figment of my fevered
imagination. In fact, the entire b