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Retired Machinist Designs By Computer

By James R. Headberg

Pres. Aero Club of the Landings 15310 Take Off Place Wellington, Florida 33414

The photos are of "made" engines I have built. The Hit'N'Miss single cylinder engine is of my own design, and runs good. The other is a scale Rider-Ericsson hot-air pumping engine made from a raw casting kit.

I have been a machinist all my life, starting out in my dad's farm repair shop on a wheat farm in Kansas. I followed the trade through many phases of apprenticeship in the GI Bill of Rights on the job training program. Then on to developing various farm tillage tools, excavators and harvesting machines. My most interesting time was spent in an experimental machine shop for the aviation and aerospace industry, building tooling and methods for making prototype first parts for many military airplanes and then into the space programs, incl...

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