Written by HS (c. 2003); Transcribed, reformatted and edited by JS (05/2010)
I was born in 1928 in Greenwich, Connecticut, and moved to New York City in 1933. I built dime kits, both solid and stick models. My first airplane to fly was a Puss Moth by Consolidated Models. My largest rubber model was a Korda Wakefield in 1940.
About a year later, I bought a used Brown Junior motor from an older boy in the neighborhood and built my first gas job, a thermal magnet by Bay Ridge Models. I joined the Prop Spinners Club in Forrest Hills, and flew with them in many contests in the New York/ New Jersey/ Connecticut area.
After two years in the Army, I went to California to attend the Northup Institute of Technology, and after completion went to work for Douglas Aircraft. I flew mostly U-Control, Stunt, and Free Flight during the late 1940s and early 1950s. In 1953, I moved back to New York, working for Republic Aviation and Grumman as a design engineer.
In 1957, I got the Radio Control bug and built an Ace transmitter and a Lorenz 2 tube receiver, which I flew in the deBolt LiveWire Champ. These early Radio Control models sometimes flew better when the radio was not working.
During the 1980s and 1990s, I designed several Radio Control models that were published as magazine construction articles, three of them in Model Aviation.
I retired from Grumman in 1988 and moved to Florida. I am a member of the R/SEA Hawks in Cape Coral, Florida, where I fly Sport Radio Control, Old Timers, and some Combat.
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