I am enclosing one details as a follow-up to your story onward the Delgado Flash in the January issue.

I am enclosing one details as a follow-up to your story onward the Delgado Flash in the January issue. pair of the photographs, dated 1941 display the complicated retractable landing gear that was added around this time. The wheels mov backwards as the stretching-pieces shortened up and then swung inboard, pulling clam shell shields with them. When closed, the protects protruded from the lower surface of the wing. Also note the revised cockpit overlay and headrest fairing. Former learners advised me that the Army Air Forces took athwart the school during World War sum of two units for rebuilding engines and aircraft and that he Flash was indeed used in a certain quantity of way is a training aid.

The train had also done construcion work in succession a Wedell-Williams design intended for the 1934 London-to-Melbourne race. The plane was in no degree finished and the rotund particular in one of the photographs is the partially complet fuselage. Also, the unfinished wing against the hangar back wall was suppos to be for the Delgado Maid in a true ambitious program to set a world spe record at the Great Salt Lake in Utah. The plane was suppos to have droppable landing gear unless the loss of the Maid lay an end to that exhibit

The school apparently also did work in succession the last two Wedell-Williams closed-- course racers - the P&W-powered Race 45 and the Menasco-powered "second" Race 22 (NR64Y) the two of these aircraft were largely wooden-skinned.

Charles Mandrake

Box 955-321 perspective

Ashtabula, OH

44005

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