(several birds with one posted stone here, in contravention of Ron's very good suggestion about differentiated posts, last week or so...) > From: Ron Wanttaja [mailto:ikvamar@gte.net] > Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 12:34 AM > Wkoucky@aol.com wrote: > > > Thanks for the bulletin. I would be willing to pass it on by > >making two or three copies and mailing on to other folks to help > >out. Haven't had a chance to look at it much but thanks again. > >I am getting my plane on its gear too. Bought hinges for my tail > >feathers from replicraft. He seems like a good guy to deal with. (Agreed. He's the guy for me to deal with.) > >Dealing with axle fittings. (Hah. Good luck. I look forward to burning that bridge when I come to it.) > Got mine too, Billy, thanks. I'm kind of planning to run a few more > sets and list 'em on the web page, selling at cost. That's probably the best move, I think, because of your central position in the online community. One practical matter that concerns me is the reproductive quality of the photographs several generations away from the originals. I was fairly happy with what I sent out, but I can see that they probably won't do very well, afterward. I'm open to suggestion on reproduction of my original pages. However, here's the most exciting news of the week (to me, anyway)... > Got a call in to Pete Bowers, just want to verify that there won't be any > copyright issues on this (I suspect the original publisher is probably dead by > now,... Negative, mate. Dig this e-mail arrived yesterday: <cite> Dear Mr. Beck: My name is Pat Story, a Navy Officer with an interest in homebuilt aviation. I was browsing around the Net the other day and found your comments regarding "The Fly Baby Bulletin" . Thought you might be interested in knowing that the Mr. Hayden Ferguson in question is my beloved father-in-law, who is still doing just fine, thank you. ;) As a matter of fact, he just got himself another FlyBaby and is in the process of refurbishing it as we speak. As you can probably tell from the "Bulletin", I don't think you could find anyone more knowledgeable about this plane. His e-mail address is hayden@dixie-net.com and I'm sure he'd be more than happy to offer advice or just general B.S. to a fellow enthusiast. Pleased to meet you.... going to go back and visit your page a little more..... Yours, Patrick Story </cite> So. There's that. He's still with us. Billy