The importance of Heath

[Bill Coleman AA4LR]

On 7/12/00 19:22, Chuck W4MIL at CEMILTON at aol.com wrote:

> My
>oldest piece of Heath history is from the mid-30's when old Ed himself was
>putting radios together for the cockpits of small aircraft in an effort to
>bolster his real dream ------KIT AIRPLANES.  In case you didn't hear the
>news, he died in an experimental plane crash long before his successors took
>the WWII surplus stuff and started HeathKit.....

Ironically, the kit aircraft industry didn't really take off until the
1980s -- just at the time when kit electronics were fading out....



Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr at radio.org
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