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« on: August 04, 2016, 18:20:54 PM »
Hi Fred;
A beautiful tribute to Irish aviation. Thank you for bringing this very significant part of history to our attention.
I had never heard of the Mayfly and all you get on a search on aviation history in Ireland starts with the Vimy crossing in 1919.
I've spent the day going through all the links
What a wonderful and groundbreaking woman. Too bad she did not continue with her aviation interests. However, she was also a pioneer in many other rapidly developing interests of the early 20th century. it appears to have had some unique control surface features which had not been used previously. We could do with more like her.
It would indeed be a great thing to develop an electric RC version of this model of about 1/12 scale. It would be a knockout. if you are not interested, I'll take up the challenge and you can do the cutting from my CAD drawings.
I have not flown in Ireland since 2 years ago at Mt. Leinster. I was over in Aug/sept last year with my daughter and grandson, but did not get flying. I will be back from Sept 13 to Oct 7 and will have a couple of models with me. Planning on getting to the Mt. Leinster fly-in on Sept 25.
Regards to all,
John