Flyer's Dream

摘要

First time I saw a video showing this plane I wanted to build it right away. I thought this was the cutest plane ever, something that could have been designed by Disney for a cartoon movie. I searched the Internet to find some three-views and the other information about this plane. After long search, I found a modeler in Germany, Lutz Nakel, who had a 3-view but nothing else about the real plane. Beside finding the three-view I also found the logo that was on the rudder of the full size plane. It was Dewey Eldred Flying Service Inc. located at the Lost Nation airport in Willoughby, Ohio. I found one additional bit of information in the Lake Erie College magazine in 2011, Fall issue. In the short article it states that Mr. Eldred was considered the safest flyer in the whole nation in 1940. He was in charge of a flying program at this airport. In 1939 he even set the distance record of 898 miles in a Taylor-craft powered by a 50 horsepower Lycoming engine during a long flight south to Day-tona, Florida.