Dan wrote in news:060a5978-f3dd-41d2-9640-aebbe32f67c2
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On Mar 16, 9:25 pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

Ah, OK. I have seen this one before. Of course I know about George
Bogardus' "little Gee Bee".That;'s just been restored, in fact.

Don't forget that Wimpy was a much beloved character in those days. it
was common to name airplanes after them. Art Chester, for instance, with
the Jeep, and Steve Wittman's Buster and Bonzo. Les sodl a good few kits
in the thirties. Probably only Corben and Heath did any better in that
department.

Bertie

Wimpy --the hamburger-eating guy in Popeye?

Yep. it's almost certainly named after him.

Our language certainly has changed. I suppose today he would have
designed an sold a "KENNY!" or Cartman.

Though I'm dating myself with those references...


Prolly. But yeh, there was a lot of that in the thirties. The characters
were really popular. So was aviation. Race pilots were like rock stars back
then.

Bertie