Sorry to hear about Tem Johnson. Clearly he was a good guy and quite a
skilled modeler. I was fortunate to have the table next to him and
others from the Kansas group for a few years at the USIC in Johnson City.
Fred Rash
On 6/28/2017 1:49 AM, Don DeLoach ddeloach_at_comcast.net
[Indoor_Construction] wrote:
>
>
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: Fw: Tem Johnson info from Model Airplane Club perspective
> Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 04:36:41 +0000
> From: Peggy and Jeff Renz <jjprenz_at_msn.com>
> To: Don DeLoach <ddeloach_at_comcast.net>, dana field
> <danafield1_at_gmail.com>, dana field <dana.field_at_harcros.com>, Bill
> Schmidt <billschmidt08_at_hotmail.com>
>
> Don: One of our members (Tem Johnson) passed on last week Thursday. I
> wrote this brief section for his obit. (his brother asked me)....
>
> Tem's Bronco was published in the 1961 Zaic Year book I think.
>
> Renz
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> *Subject:* Tem Johnson info from Model Airplane Club perspective
>
> Tem Johnson was an excellent model airplane craftsman and railroad
> enthusiast. He was a local active member of the Topeka Model Aircraft
> Club and Heart of America Free Flight Model Airplane Club for decades
> within the KC area. Tem was a fixture at many model airplane contests,
> on the local and national levels. Tem competed and won against some of
> the worlds best free flight modelers frequently at the yearly national
> contests in Idaho and Tennessee over the years. Tem had a mechanical
> engineering background and had attended Purdue. He always took an
> organized scientific approach to model construction as well as the art
> of flying competitively. Many of his designs and aerodynamic related
> technical articles were published in technical journals and news
> letters. Tem had and encyclopedic knowledge of model airplanes and
> lectured on many flying and design topics. He will be deeply missed by
> the local model airplane community.
>
> ---
> This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.
> https://www.avast.com/antivirus
>
>
Received on Thu Jun 29 2017 - 01:22:11 CEST