Buy a NEW Heathkit now

[Chris Trask]

On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Bill Coleman AA4LR wrote:

> On 4/16/99 4:52 PM, Larry Knapp at Lawrence_P_Knapp at EMAIL.WHIRLPOOL.COM
> wrote:
>
> >     We forget that the way
> >     Howard Anthony started the kit business, as we know it, was to
> >     purchase lots of government surplus parts, put those together into a
> >     box so we could purchase a scope or vtvm or whatever.
>
> Well, sort of.
>
> Heath got its start long before that shipment of government surplus tubes.
>
> Heath had a kit airplane back in the 1930's, long before the FAA had
> rules to certify such aircraft. That's how the company got started and
> survived until just after WW II.
>
        That's right.  It was the Heath Parasol, which looked like quite a
few homebuilts back then, including the Longster, which used a Model A
engine with the radiator mounted behind and over the engine, right in
front of the pilot's head.  Kept you warm in the winter.  They both used
motorcycle wheels.


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