Re: I am blind: re: the old kits!

From: Rszanti <Rszanti_at_compuserve.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:48:33 -0000

Don

To clarify this and maybe help promote the kits, the following was
provided by L. Vargo in RCgroups in reference to a kit another builder
had questions about.

Richard

Gollywock scoop

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The kit you have is for the "new" Gollywock as you can see from the
plan. Before I go on let me say that that is my name in the title block
of the plan: L. Vargo. My father, also L. Vargo, drew the plan; I was a
teenager working at Midwest Model Supply at the time. This was 1941 --
the year before I had won Jr. Mulvihill at the AMA Nats with an
old-style (bamboo tips, solid rudder, etc.) Gollywock. Now let me
describe the sequence of designs about which there has been much
published erroneous information. Sometime in 1940 Wally Simmers, owner
of Midwest, decided to update the design of the Jabberwock, repeat
Jabberwock. The result was the Dynamoe with a slightly modified
fuselage. wood wing tips, squared-off stab with end plates, built-up
rudder and retracting single gear.Only after the Dynamoe was being
kitted was the New Gollywock produced using many of the changes from the
Dynamoe. So the situation up to February 1943 when I went into military
service was that all four of the designs were still being sold with the
idea that when original Jabberwock and Gollywock kits were all sold that
would be the end of those products. All of the "mods" that came out
after the War, including some things that Wally participated in perhaps
unknowingly, are not Old Timer designs -- remember 1/1/43 is the cutoff
date.

I hope this clarifies the development of these important designs. If
anyone has any questions I might be able to answer please contact me at
louisgvargo_at_cox.net <mailto:louisgvargo_at_cox.net> .


--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com
<mailto:Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com> , "Don DeLoach "
<ddeloach_at_...> wrote:
>
> Re: the kits being auctioned for the Junior F1D team, I checked again
and
> realized I made a mistake-they are a Jabberwock and Dynamoe. Also, the
> Jabberwock plan says "Super Jabberwock" and has a plan date of 1969.
The
> Dynamoe plan says 1947 but I assume both of these kits are from the
late
> sixties, not the forties. Still, they are complete and in very good
> condition with good wood and sawn prop blanks, all hardware. The
Dynamoe
> plan is slightly yellowed but the Jabberwock plan is in near mint
condition.
> Kit boxes in very good condition.
>
>



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