Happy Birthday to me

I Turned 82 years old yesterday.  That's 82 years OLD not young.  Whomever started that young nonsense should be disciplined.    

Mark and wife turned up and spent the night.  We watched Jimmy Stewart in "Spirit of St. Louis" for reasons that will become evident in a moment.

Mark an avid flea market shopper and one with an eye for a good deal came up with some jewels this time for my birthday as he has done in past years.  

First an as new never started Cox Fokker Triplane with instructions.  There must be an epidemic of tails falling off model airplanes be they balsa or plastic.  I must have restored at least 10 in the recent past.  

Then he found another seller with magazines for sale, Scale Modeler and Universal Model Airplane news and a post card mailed in October 1942 picturing the old "Blue Box" link trainer.  I used to maintain one of these in the 1950's for Piedmont Airlines, more about this in a later thread.  

But the big hit for me was a first edition copy of Charles Lindbergh's "WE" a book that I first read as a child back in the 1940's. Now the most meaningful book in my  aviation oriented library.  





Curious, The Cox engine shows a separate washer (nose weight?) that does not appear in the parts breakdown.  



5$ for the Cox airplane and 5$ for the book, magazines, and post card.