In 1948, John Ransom (known as Jack) was a 26-year-old fellow aeromodeller at Littlehampton and we both belonged ' to the West Sussex Aeromodelling Club. During the war. Jack had been in the army and served quite a lot of his time abroad. Consequently some of his stories were extremely interesting to us teenagers who were filled with a keenness of anything that flew - and also anything in a skirt. He lived with his mother and she 'allowed' him to build his models indoors, because as a qualified electrician he earned far more money than most of us. Jack could afford to buy almost anything that was advertised in the monthly Aeromodeller magazine, which at that time was priced at one shilling and three pence (about seven new pence).
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