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Thank you all for your kind messages. Many people have asked if his website will stay up and yes I renewed the hosting through 2028. I wrote his obituary yesterday and will repost it here, I think some of you will really like reading it and I tried to incorporate some of your kind words here...

Hi this is not his page. Haven't created one yet.

Yes I just renewed the hosting through 2028. We are also going to take our time this year inventorying his 7000+ un-built kits, extensive aviation library, and all the Golden Era Model plans he designed. I look forward to connecting with his friends on ideas how to make it available/accessible.

Hello this is June Marshall, John Eaton's daughter. I wanted to let you all know that he passed away peacefully yesterday after a valiant fight against cancer. He was surrounded with love by his family and grandchildren who adored him. He was our rock, and he was one of a kind. He expressed...

They probably had a stick they could poke the pilot with to make sure he stayed awake!

Progress on an AD-4W over the last week. It is turning out to be a fairly simple build, since I am not going to try to stuff any resin and PE in to it. The fuselage has insert panels where the side dive brakes are on a standard AD and those were fit after installing the bubble windows. The area...

I have been working on this one for a while. Made the masks for the canopy. There is a very complex interior which took some time. The instrument panel decal was really difficult to get to conform over the panel, though I did not hit it with Tamiya Extra Thin, not worth the risk given how hard...

I have always had hard luck with more than 3 cats at a time. More three and it seems like some will leave.

Yeah, the welding bottles are a nice addition. I thought it might be the same kit. It comes with a flathead V-8 but no six.

This a pickup I had briefly in High School. I had to buy a second kit to get a straight 6 engine, and then I had to severely modify it because the manifolds were on the opposite side as it was from a later model. The color is Cape Blue, a 60's GM truck color that we painted our equipment. It...

Well done, Chris. Great rigging!

Best if you did, Bob.

One of your best, Mark!

That shot is a Paul Bowen specialty and the vortices are from the wing tips in cruise flight with flaps up. There are normally no vortices from engine nacelles. At high altitude and cold temperatures contrails will form but not until the exhaust has cooled sufficiently for the water vapor to...

Thank you all for the kind comments. It was a challenge for me because of the limited run kit and small size, coupled with my shaky hands, which thankfully seem to be getting a bit more steady. Mel Apt lost his life in this one. It was a loss of control due to inertial coupling, a new and...