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John McDermott Jr sent me some photos to process and post. Here is one.

This is from the 60's ... I think he said 1966.

Greg, You are correct that it was Asheville/Hendersonville Airport. The first Formula 1 race ever in North Carolina. I talked to Dad this morning. He can't remember exactly who was in that heat. Harold Haigler is launching the Rivets. You are right that Tommy Baker was calling for Dad. Apparently th...

So you can see what is possible with a good scanner and PhotoShop. This photo was scanned at 600dpi. It looks just like the photo. Lil Bit Before Processing.jpg This is the photo after using the "Auto Contrast", then "Auto Color", then "Auto Tone", then setting the Brightness. The trick is to use th...

This is the Lil' Bit. It had a fiberglass fuselage. I have the molds and may have an ancient set of foam cores I can pull out and make wings te,plates with. I don't know if I have the plans or not. Hopefully I do. Lil Bit_Medium.jpg It had predecessors by that name. I will be posting a solid one tha...

Cindy gave me this back in 2003 or so after I had been flying full scale planes from 1995 to 2000, then started back in R/C when we moved in this house in 2000. "Bearon" has been a constant companion sitting on the corner of my stereo receiver and guitar equipment rack in my upstairs office every si...

This is believed to be the first Stegall Minnow. It was a clone of the Stafford Minnow basically. Dad is not sure if he used the original airfoil or not. It had a wire landing gear. Dad carved the plug out of white pine. It was in halves. Not a single piece of wood. It was essentially cut to the sid...

Hi Don, ... I have special edition from aloft hobbies with M9 gimbals. Very happy with it and in general I think Aloft is great to work with. Curious about high gain antenna. Please share more details when you do that. ... Joe, Thank you very much for all of the info. I will respond and comment on ...

As long as you do not store the radio with the antenna on, there should be no issues with it.

Hi Guys, I know you have lots of old photos out there. I can help you get them ready to post here or post them for you. I post process my photos and can often make them look more like they did when they were new using PhotoShop to color correct them, crop them, etc. If you don't have a scanner, You ...

Hi Guys, I know you have lots of old photos out there. I can help you get them ready to post here or post them for you. I post process my photos and can often make them look more like they did when they were new using PhotoShop to color correct them, crop them, etc. If you don't have a scanner, You ...

This was Jim Stegall's first fiberglass Formula 1 plane. It had a K&B Torpedo engine in it. I have some in boxes, but those boxes are on the bottom of my stacks of boxes. When I dig down there again, I will post a photo of one. This was a fiberglass fuselage foam core kit that was based on Joe Foste...

Joe, Thank you for sharing, I talked to Matthew about the Moteino. He looked at the specs and said it should be nice for building all types of telemetry os S.Port devices. He knew the processor and it's capabilities. Thanks for sharing the code. I only saw one modified .h file in the __MACOSX folder...

This is my first memory of a pylon plane that my Dad Jim Stegall raced before Formula 1 / Goodyear was a thing. I posted it on https://www.facebook.com/rcpylonmemories/ and it was identified as a "Phil Kraft Go Go Fli". See https://www.modelaircraft.org/sites/default/files/files/KraftPhilipPhil.pdf ...

For photos from The 1975 NMPRA Championship Race, check out the Facebook album at 1975 NMPRA Championship Coverage There is a PDF at http://rcpylonmemories.com/NMPRA/MAN/1975_NMPRA_Championship.pdf These were scanned before I had a good scanner and better technique. I'm going to find the magazine an...

Johnny Brodbeck Jr and my Dad Jim Stegall were good friends in the 1970's when Dad was producing the Stegall Minnow. Junior sent Dad a photo of his Stegall Super Minnow, aka the Boni Toni, which was Dad's response to the Prather Little Toni. Brodbeck Boni Toni Cropped #2 lower resolution.jpg Dad got...