When pilots dream, they often dream about airplanes and missions they’d like to fly. One of the most popular daydreams is to imagine yourself an air racer of the 1930s, flying a famous machine like the Howard DGA-6 “Mr. Mulligan.”
Hal Wighton of Bloomer, Wis., decided to indulge his dreams in 1985 when he painted his 1939 Luscombe 8A to look like “Mr. Mulligan,” the pioneering racing plane designed by Ben Howard and Gordon Israel.
===> Posted on April 21, 2011 by Meg Godlewski. No comments. © GAN 2011
