Mister Mystery Man
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One of our old gang died recently as a result of homicide in Bunker Hill, Indiana. Arthur “Art” Anderson was one of the pilots at “Windfall International Airport” as we liked to call it mockingly after Indianapolis changed their name from “Weir Cook” to Indianapolis International (although there weren’t an international flights from there.
On rainy days we’d all hang out there and swap stories and look through all the ads that were current in Trade-A-Plane. On nice days we’d fly out for the $100 hamburgers or just take turns flying in each other’s airplanes around the pattern.
Art flew an Alon Ercoupe, while several others of us flew Stinsons. Some of us were big guys and we needed the extra room that a Stinson provided.
Art was an Electrical Engineer at Delco Radio in Kokomo (The billboard in front boasted, “The Automotive Electronics Capitol of the World”) and he was an amateur radio operator with the call, W9WPH.
One of the things that Art did was to take a Buick car radio and convert it to operate on 122.8 Unicom, install a set of relays and program a chip so the pilots returning to Windfall could turn on the runway lights with five clicks of the PTT.
That was a number of years ago and we’d lost track of Art until we saw the headlines in the news a few weeks ago. Apparently he died doing the things he enjoyed most. I was completely shocked that he would end this way.
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http://www.indianasnewscenter.com/news/local/Boy-Scout-Leader-Murdered-on-Nature-Hike-128169668.html
.. MMM
On rainy days we’d all hang out there and swap stories and look through all the ads that were current in Trade-A-Plane. On nice days we’d fly out for the $100 hamburgers or just take turns flying in each other’s airplanes around the pattern.
Art flew an Alon Ercoupe, while several others of us flew Stinsons. Some of us were big guys and we needed the extra room that a Stinson provided.
Art was an Electrical Engineer at Delco Radio in Kokomo (The billboard in front boasted, “The Automotive Electronics Capitol of the World”) and he was an amateur radio operator with the call, W9WPH.
One of the things that Art did was to take a Buick car radio and convert it to operate on 122.8 Unicom, install a set of relays and program a chip so the pilots returning to Windfall could turn on the runway lights with five clicks of the PTT.
That was a number of years ago and we’d lost track of Art until we saw the headlines in the news a few weeks ago. Apparently he died doing the things he enjoyed most. I was completely shocked that he would end this way.
.
http://www.indianasnewscenter.com/news/local/Boy-Scout-Leader-Murdered-on-Nature-Hike-128169668.html
.. MMM
