Spider Jim at 85 years young

[lastvautour]

I have taken to contact members who have not posted in a while. Here are Jim's words

If I think you are the man I wrote to a long time back who is involved in model aircraft, then your are the man.   I'm now 86 where I'm one of the few remaining employees of Piasecki Helicopter Corp in Morton , PA.  In 1955 VERTOL came about in which Frank Piasecki was ushered out of the door.   I worked on the original plywood mock ups of the CH-46 Sea Knight and Ch-47 Chinook .    No hand held computers at that time.  I worked on the H-16, XHRP-1, HUP, H-21 ,  CH-46, CH-47 and the test bed that led to the V-22 Osprey.   I knew many of th still living rotary wing pioneers.

Jim


Lou