Dennis: The plane is ready to go. The fly-in was held over a weekend at the Lansing, Michigan airport. At this point I had just graduated from high school and we had been working on the plane for 2 1/2 years. We were getting close to being done and very determined to have it flown before the Rockford fly-in the end of July.
There was a good crowd and we had fun showing off the plane. The only bad thing was the preacher and his wife who got picked as chairman left for Texas on Sunday with all the cash, what a mess.
This was made as a float for a parade. We lived in Flint so it was in a Flintstone Flyer motif. The kids setting on it are Dwayne Trovillion's kids.
Not only did we have fun, but won awards. Dad has the trophy for best wood built plane. I'm not sure what the award Dwayne has is for. Mine was for youngest pilot. That summer I worked for Jim Narrin who had started a flight training business at Bishop airport. Basically I answered the phone when he was at work of flying and did odd jobs in exchange for flight time. It was very kind of him and Barb to let me spend the summer hanging out at he airport. It was hard to get a real job until you turned 18 so it was good fun. I did some drafting work for the city schools, pocket money, while sitting in his office every day.
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