The Magnet Job -- the Gordon Hughes Strain
posted by Jack Prescott
on Mon, 11/15/2010 - 16:59
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(Internet Published) May 2000
Described as flying machines, I have mixed feelings about them. I have never
known any man who has been able to control them and avoid such unacceptable
losses. Our two notable Sheffield men who flew them with remarkable success
have told me that in just on year they lost 120 young birds--let us say 60
birds each. In a recent phone call from Mr. Tom Dilks of Bentley--West
Midlands, England--he confessed that he had lost 70 in one season. Tom Dilks