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Two years ago I had the opportunity to interview a gentleman by the name of Steve Marle who had taken the all wood Rag Wing design and converted it into a metal fuselage and wing aircraft. he name the plane the "Busker." In Europe this has a special meaning sort of a "Jack of all Trades", and his little Busker sort of fit that in that it could play many different roles for many different people.

This year he flew in with a beautiful little GB model D. Unfortunately he blew a tire on landing on the main runway, while no damage was done the incident attracted the attention of the FAA, who then proceeded to weight his plane and find that it was "overweight"!

The amazing thing about this to me was that they turned a "blind eye" to all the other ultralights at the show, of which I would estimate only about 2 would make the definition. Another thing that really bothered me was that despite the contribution Steve has made over the years to EAA - he has been presented with several awards - no one from EAA came to his aid. In fact it seemed that they actually made a point to avoid him! Perhaps EAA only comes to help if you are someone like Bob Hoover where you know you are going to getting publicity coming out the wazzoo!

Anyways getting back to Steve's ..GB model D is a 110% scale of the 1930's model. In order to bring the stall speed down he had to take the wings from the original 25 feet to 30 ft 6 inch. In fact the plane makes the definition for stall and top speed but not the weight.

In fact Steve has a vision of a whole series of craft of "Golden Light Racers" and is in the process of looking for people to back the idea. He compared the idea to that of Mike Loehle who produces a series of World War 1 and 11 scaled warbird replicas.

For more info contact:
Steve Marle
2415 Knapp St Rd.
Oshkosh Wisconsin

GB Model D-Golden Age Racer
GB Model D Golden Age Racer

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