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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 25, 1962)
TUESDAY. DECEMBER 25, 1962 MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Teen-Ager Haunts r Airlines; Builds 1 Models For Sale 14 A 0 CE-A-VM ; By ROBERT J. SERLING ,.' UPI Aviation Editor Ballimore. Md. - WTO - It was Just three years ago that : lanky, thin-faced youngster f named Richard Jay Wilmoth - began hanging around the ' ticket counters at Baltimore's friendship airport. He was 14 at the lime. He : came to the airport every week end, usually early Sat urday morning, unobtrusively ; observing the handling of ; tickets, baggage, passengers 'and airplanes. He haunted virtually ail air ' lines but one in particular In trigued him - comparatively small Lake Central, a local (service carrier. Being small, ! it also was informal and he ; began talking to LCA agents. One day he was on the ramp watching his new friends load ; a DC3 and. without saying a Vword, he helped put on the baggage. ' Family Member Krnm that dav on. Richard Jay Wilmoth became an un official member of Lake Cen Irals family. About a yea rflgo. he bought a plastic-DC3 ; model "kit and nand-pain.ea ; 11. with Lake Central s colors. "I In larkprf lettering so he took Inn LCA baggage tog and used the "Lake Central Airlines' ; letters on the tag for the mini ' attire Diane. . Proudly, he brought the plane to the airport and show ed it to the Lake Central em ployes. A stewardess about to board a flight took one look at the gleaming little model and flipped. "I'd pay you to make me one like that," she enthused. A bell sounded in the brain of young Mr. Wilmoth. He bought several more DC3 models at $1 each and wound up with customers for all of them at $3 each. An Alle gheny ramp agent saw one and asked Richard If he could build an Allegheny Convair. The youngster located some Convair kits and by now he was really in business. He Inrned nut about 40 Lake Central DC3's and 20 Alle gheny Convairs - which led Id requests from employees of other airlines for models of their own planes. Finances Trip With his tirst modest prof lls, he saved up enough to finance his first airplane trip .the 40-mlle flight from BalU more to Washington. niplmrri in 17 now. a stll rient at Baltimore's Vocational Tech school and a member of Its cross-country squad. But track is his second love - air lines in general and Lake Cen tral In particular are his first. "He's like one of the fam ily," said LCA station man ager Forest Burres. "He's out here every Saturday working, taking pictures of planes and delivering his models. I never saw a kid so nuts about avia tion." Richard's own ambitions are modes!. He has no desire to be a glamorous pilot or even an airline vice president. "I'd Just like to go to work for an airline when I get through high school," he said. 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