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Bill
Bryant's Seabee RC Model!
Photos: © Mark Weitzman
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Bryant
Seabee RC Model
Hello,
Came across
your website, and thought you might like to see my friend Bill Bryant,
from Whittier CA. Seabee model. Scratch built from plans purchased on
the internet. Span is 63", ready to fly weight is about 8lbs.
Power is a 60 size brushless electric motor, 60 amp speed control, 3
blade pusher prop, 6 cell Lipo battery. I had the privilege of doing
the maiden flight, and the model flew perfect; no trim adjustment was
needed, and no bad habits. Glide ratio is very good; the plane just
goes, and goes. The correct angle on landing is important, or the
plane will "porpoise"
Thanks,
Mark Weitzman
June 05, 2017
2017-10-06
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Benjamin Stuart Paschall
4/2/1933 - 5/27/2017
Ben was born in Seattle to Benjamin and Helen Paschall. The family lived
in the Madison Park area and Ben attended several different schools in
the Seattle area. He went to St. George’s in Vancouver, BC for high
school, after which he joined the Navy in 1951. He got his honorable
discharge in 1954 as an Electrician’s Mate. He came back to Seattle
and started a landscaping business for several years, before managing,
with the help of his mother, his late father’s company that
manufactured asthma nebulizers. Eventually, when he took over the
company, Ben guided Pascal Company into another direction - that of
manufacturing dental products - and further expanded it into the
thriving international business it is today. Ben valued and treated his
employees as family, to the extent that the majority of them have been
with him from 18 to 45 years.
During part of this time, he was married to Joan Larson and enjoyed
raising his 3 children, living on houseboats, sailing around the Sound
in his 6-meter sailboat, and flying all over in his 1947 Republic SeaBee
amphibious airplane. After his divorce, Ben started a new phase of his
life - that of the party bachelor, avid skier, tavern owner, pilot,
traveler, and continuing international businessman.
His third life phase started when he met his future wife, Penny Braden,
in 1983 at a ski club function. This was the beginning of a long, loving
friendship and life together of skiing, hiking, traveling, cruising,
RVing, flying, and boating on their beautiful Skookum 53. After all
those years, they decided that “this just might work” and got
married January 2016. Their future plans for more fun adventures
together were interrupted by Ben’s being diagnosed with Lewy Body
Dementia. Even after that, they managed to squeeze in several more trips
to South Africa, Dubai, New Zealand and Australia. To the end, he still
had his lovely smile and caring heart.
He is survived by his wife, Mary (Penny); his children, Susan Rich
(Casey), Steven, Brian (Deborah); his grandchildren Lenny & Rachael
Rich, Aiden, Erika, & Cayden Paschall, Ariana Langheld; his
sister-in-law, Jenny Paschall and her children; his step-brother, Stuart
Murphy (T.J.) and their children.
2017-10-06
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