On 10 Sep 2003 21:32:44 GMT, (Veeduber) wrote:

Most of you have never heard of Vernon Payne. He's best known as the designer
of a spiffy little biplane called the Knight Twister. Rag & tube fuselage,
solid spruce spars, plywood skins on cantilevered wings. Slicker than snot on
a door knob. First flew about 1929 and continues doing so today and very well,
too. Ask him nice, Vern would build you a set of wings. Fuselage, too.
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That story/Tribute should be published. It put a lump in my throat
thinking of people and things past.

Roger
Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
www.rogerhalstead.com
N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2)