Something that nagged at me for quite a while was this: Jack Laister's first famous glider design, the beautiful, gull winged 1938 LIT Ⅳ, acquired very patriotic red, white, and blue markings and a new name for its trip to Paris, France in the spring of 1939. From that moment on, it was known as "Yankee Doodle." It was followed by a 1941 two-seat derivative predictably called "Yankee Doodle Two." It was "Yankee Doodle Two" on the manufacturer's data plate and in the full page ads in Soaring magazine. The LK-10A designation was almost an afterthought. This was a numerous, well-known, popular sailplane throughout the '40s, '50s, and '60s. Laister's next all-out sailplane design made its first flight on Independence Day, July 4, 1966; Jack Laister named it - "The 49er." Not "Yankee Doodle Three?" No.
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