Jon Ellis has been flying beautifully built scale helicopters for years, and I have had the pleasure of running into him at events in the Southeast. I got to sit down for a few minutes and discuss his 1/4-scale Bell 47G project. Any fan of the series M*A*S*H (an acronym for Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) will immediately recognize the distinctive glass bubble cockpit of the Bell 47. Jon’s model is an extremely accurate representation of the real thing.
Model Airplane News: Can tell us about how flying RC led to your career flying full-scale helicopters?
I purchased my first RC helicopter in early 1980 after seeing a very small advertisement in “RC Modeler.” It was a Cricket make by John Gorham of
