I came across George Perryman's biography recently. The full biography is worth reading and can be found here:
http://www.modelaircraft.org/files/PerrymanGeorge.pdf http://www.modelaircraft.org/files/PerrymanGeorge.pdf
One passage caught my attention:
"When I was nine or 10, my mother, Nell, went to Elizabethtown, Kentucky, and bought me a model airplane kit for 25-cents. She helped me cut out all the pieces using scissors, which broke most of the balsa wood. We didn’t get the model finished, so she bought me a 10-cent stick model, which would fly across the street.
"My mother died last year at 100-years-old. When she was 98-1/2, she assembled a simple all-balsa model, the Centurion. She was tickled beyond words when National Model Aviation Museum Curator Michael Smith installed it in a glass case next to one of mine in the AMA museum. She was my greatest supporter for 76 years."
Here's to Nell Perryman.
Received on Wed May 28 2014 - 13:00:12 CEST