Indeed it was a flying replica. I recall one day I was with him and
as we turned base for landing a P-51 zoomed in from the right on a
high speed fly by down the runway. We hit the wash from that plane
and rocked wildly. Ford's flying skill saved our bacon that day I do
believe.

I have no knowledge of what happend to the craft after he sold it. He
moved on to building a Steward Headwind. A sort of Aeronca C3 looking
plane. As plans built it had lift struts but Ford re-designed it to
have flying and landing wires. One night as we were working in the
loft assembling a wing another ai port ner- do- well came in a
commented "HA! I see you built two left wings!" We looked at the
wing leaning against the wall and the one on the saw horses and sure
enough that is exactly what we had done. We were able to save the
spare and two evenings later we had a RIGHT wing built and things
moved on. That was a long time ago now but I still miss my friend
greatly.

Errol Groff
EAA 60159




On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:39:41 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip
wrote:

Errol Groff wrote in
:




My friend, Ford Martyn, who has since passed away built a replica of a
Ben Epps designed bi-plane. This was in the early 1970's.


Wow. Good man!
A flying replica, was it?
Any idea if it's still around or what the registration was?


Bertie