("Nathan Young" wrote)
There is a nice article in this month's Sport Aviation describing a son's
search for the Luscombe his father once owned.

He found it, and (later) ended up buying it.

I think this is a common want/desire for those of us who have relatives
who flew.


Great book (It's a boat not a plane, though). Mom and Dad bought us all a
copy of this book for Christmas in 1989. "The author and his father restore
his 1938 17' Chris-Craft runabout."

http://www.godine.com/books/titles/1567922147.html
From Publishers Weekly
"Not just for boating enthusiasts, this account of a two-year struggle to
resurrect a 50-year-old Chris Craft motorboat, Miss Emily , and turn it into
a trophy winner at a boat show is a story of and for fathers and sons. St.
Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch columnist Soucheray depicts his father as a
loving man reluctant to show his emotions, yet captivated by motorboats,
which he moored and piloted on various Minnesota lakes; he communicated this
enthusiasm to his son, and boats became the link that bound them. When the
author had the rare good fortune to recover one of his father's old boats
(it was too rotted to be repaired), he was able to strip off its hardware
and use this in the boat he was refinishing, thus strengthening the
filial/paternal bond. Happily, the dying father lived long enough to witness
his son's triumphant handiwork."


Montblack