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Photo Collection #1 - The Early Years

Here are a few links to pages I have regarding my days of yore:

- Holly Hill Harbor

- Model airplanes

- Model boats

- Electrical / electronics projects

- Model helicopters

- Model rockets

- My model train

- Woodworking projects

- Photos of earlier times

- 1969 Camaro SS

- Southern Senior High School Yearbook (Harwood, Maryland)

  • Senior Class "Official" Photos

  • Senior Class Childhood Photos

- Parole Plaza, Annapolis, Maryland

Other pages:  1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

 

If you are bored, you can read the short bio I wrote of my boyhood neighborhood in Holly Hill Harbor.

Kirt with Shark 15 C/L Airplane - Mayo, MD - Airplanes and Rockets

Jetco Shark 15 C/L Airplane w/Fox .15 Engine

Mayo, MD  (circa 1970)

Kirt with Cox PT-19 Trainer - Airplanes and Rockets

Me with my Cox PT-19 Trainer. In the background is my Estes 651-RB-1 metal "Range Box" that doubled as a model airplane field box. (circa 1969)

My first radio controlled vehicle - homemade air boat with OS 3-channel radio (rudder only) - Airplanes and Rockets

My 1st RC System - OS Digital 3-Channel. It was installed in a crudely built air boat I made from Styrofoam covered with Solarfilm. - Mayo, MD  (circa 1974)

OS Digital 3-Channel Radio Control System - Airplanes and Rockets

OS Digital 3-Channel Advertisement - I'm still hoping to find one on eBay for an affordable price. The ones that have shown up thus far have sold in the $400 realm, which is was over my budget (I don't even have health insurance!).

DuBro Tri-Star Helicopter, Pride of Pay'n Pak Unlimited Hydroplane, Aquila RC glider with ABS plastic fuselage, hanging in my barracks room at Robins AFB, GA (c.1980) - Airplanes and Rockets

DuBro Tri-Star Helicopter, Dumas Pride of Pay'n Pak Unlimited Hydroplane, Aquila RC glider with ABS plastic fuselage

Barracks at Robins AFB, GA  (circa 1980)

Mystery Plane, Mayo, MD - Airplanes and Rockets

Giant Rubber Free Flight Taylorcraft

Mayo, MD  (circa 1972)

Kirt with Aquila RC glider from RCM plans - Southern Senior High School, Harwood, MD - Airplanes and Rockets

Aquila RC glider builtfrommRCM PlansRCM Plans. It was my senior year (1976) at Southern Senior High School, in Harwood, Maryland (in background)

Aquila RC saiplane flying at Southern Senior HS - Airplanes and Rockets

Aquila at Southern Senior HS, Harwood, Maryland w/water tower in background  (circa 1975-76)

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