FAA N771SJ

DEHAS Jeter Saucer 

often copied around the world 

but never imitated 

God BlessYou and yours

07-07-2023

Dr. D 6-pac CEO's

World's first

FAA N25ED

Long EZ

all electrical aircraft and flying saucers  

as headed to the moons named Deimos, Phobos , Io, Europa, Enceladus, Titan, Titania, Triton and or, Charon.

as always

06-06-2023

"Los Dilila"

N301GM and N711HH

as built by Dr. D's 

DEHAS companies 

as always 

God Bless you and yours

05-05-2023

to the "new spaces" aloft  

Star-trek Saucer Separation Moon Mars / Planetary Lander 

World's first certified 

 Air-taxi in 1995 now using UFO looking e-VTOL

God Bless you and yours

DEHAS Cylon Saucer

 

God Bless you and yours

12-16-2022 

Dr. Doug's 

Long EZ N25ED

Thanks to God

11-11-2022

Landing Back Home 

 

by the 15^th of December 2022

Finally Astro-hydro- saucer-naut Dr. Doug E Haynes, his starline flight crew, and passengers like yourself, land back on earth in our 10 seater El Jimmie Lee spacecraft at the world's first active, third wave airlines servicing spaceport, here at Watkins Colorado, as called “Colorado Air and Spaceport” on the 15^th of December 2022.

 Afther an overnight stopover at our earth's geostationary orbiting space station on the 15^th of December 2022 Astro-hydro- saucer-naut Dr. Doug E Haynes, his starline flight crew, and passengers like yourself heads home.

 Geostationary Spacestation

Once again, please note that this series of space flight trips completed by Dr. Haynes and his teams is our 10^th record breaking, "MARS-SIX-DAY FLIGHT" sequence within 30 days, rather than six month or two years. This high technology flight episode also serves as both the Third Wave Airline industries safest and fastest Mars round trip connection flight in history.

Afther a brief overnight stopover at our earth's geostationary orbiting space station on the 15^th December 2022 Astro-hydro- saucer-naut Dr. Doug E Haynes, his starline flight crew, and passengers like yourself  de-dock with their earth based, geostationary orbiting space-station and finally head for home by the 15^th of December 2022

 After a day’s flight from the moon in our El Jimmie lee commuter spacecraft, her occupants like Astro-hydro- saucer-naut Dr. Doug E Haynes, his starline flight crew, and passengers like yourself docked with our geostationary orbit artificial gravity generating/orbiting space station on the 14^th on December 2022 . 

 Afther using our Star-trek lookalike starship connection package to reach the earth orbital system, Astro-hydro- saucer-naut Dr. Doug E Haynes, his starline flight crew, and passengers like yourself begin their two day stay at our Blue Ridge Nebula Starlines artificial gravity generating/orbiting lunar space station

 12-12-2022

 Back to the Moon by the 12^th

Dr. Haynes used his Star-trek lookalike, DEHAS Inc deep space penetrating booster-package’s non-reaction CF “Hay Drive” space motors to reach our moon’s orbiting spacestation by the 12^th of December.  

         In-route from Mars to earth’s orbital system 

from the 7^th to the 12^th of December 2022 

After an overnight stay at our company's Phobos Moons artificial gravity generating/orbiting space station on the  7^th of December Dr. Doug Haynes, his crew, scientific exploration drones, and saucernaut passengers like yourself began their short 6-day flight back to our earths orbiting system in their version of the DARPA USO/UFO aerospace plane.

Whoever wanted to return to earth at that time Astro-hydro- saucer-naut Dr. Doug E Haynes, his starline flight crew, and passengers like yourself will first stop at our company's Phobos Moons artificial gravity generating/orbiting space station. This is to be accomplished before heading home in their newest, 20 passenger starliner. 

 Leaving the Surface of Mars 

on the 6^th of December

 Astro-hydro- saucer-naut Dr. Doug Haynes his starline flight crew, and saucer-naut passengers like yourself will depart the surface of Mars.

 On the 6th of December Astro-hydro- saucer-naut Dr. Doug Haynes his starline flight crew, and saucer-naut passengers like yourself will collected their rovers and air drones in preparation to depart the surface of Mars.

 12-05-2022

Dr. Doug Haynes, his starline flight crew, and passengers like yourself will deploy a variety of ground and areal proving rovers and drones          

 

On the Surface of Mars / Phobos 

from the 5^th to the 6th ^th of December    

 Once safety on the surface of Mars for a two day stay starting on the 5^th of December the 10 to 20 occupants and their scientific exploration drones will ether stay there for two years at a base or just spend a trouble free, red dust, celestial exportation like vacation on the surface of Mars.

      In-route to the Mars orbital system 

from 11, 29^th to 12, 04^th

As normal, while mars is only about 38.6 million miles (62.07 million kilometers) away for the next week,  saucer- hydro-naut Dr. Doug Haynes, his crew, scientific exploration drones, and passengers like yourself  reached the Mars orbital system within a week. We accomplished such a record-breaking journey to Mars via the employment of both our secret, patented, contentious thrust, gravitics based ion plasma and CF “Hay Drive”, deep space flight trans-versing space motor technology’s. Once in the local orbital environment, Astro-hydro- saucer-naut Dr. Doug Haynes, his starline flight crew, and passengers like yourself  docked with their Mars Moons (Phobos) artificial gravity generating space-station. This was done before actually headed down to the surface of Mars on the 4^th of December 2022.

 To the Moon

After an overnight stay at our geostationary orbit artificial gravity generating/orbiting space station, on the 27^th Commander Dr. Doug Haynes, his crew, scientific exploration drones, and saucernaut passengers like yourself head to the moon. This is done using our Star-trek “lookalike” DEHAS Inc deep space penetrating booster-package’s non-reaction CF “Hay Drive” space motors. Thanks to this new, all electrical space motor drive technology we can reach our moon’s orbiting spacestation by the 28^th of the month faster and cleaner than anyone else without polluting any environments along the way.     

                             

 Stop by and help the crew switch-out of their USO/ UFO mimicking, Sci-fi movie Forbidden Planet / Earth -vs- Mars “lookalike” Haynes Saucer named El Jimmie Lee, on the 26^th.  After their overnight stay at our Blue Ridge Nebula Starlines artificial gravity generating geostationary orbiting space station

On the 25^th Commander Dr. Doug Haynes, his crew, scientific exploration drones, and saucernaut passengers like yourself head to our geostationary orbiting station. 

11-25-2022

 

 Watch as our CEO Astro-hydro- saucer-naut Dr. Doug Haynes, and his crew switch into and then navigate one of our 10-seater, saucer shaped spacecraft, named El Jimmie Lee, to his third wave space-lines, artificial gravity generating, geostationary orbiting space-stations. 

 Welcome to our 

La DERSHANA'S 2022 SIX DAY TO MARS (RT) DEMO TOURISM FLIGHT 

Our Mars flight event begins with a local eVTOL flight from Down town Denver to our Colorado Spaceport base our east on Friday, the 25^th of November 2022 via one of our all electrical commuting flying saucers transporters named the Jeter Mobile.

10-10-2022

Dr. Doug Haynes 

Private Electrical AC / UFO Operation 

09-09-2022

 From Laborday to MLK Day 

  While our team is away from

Labor-day to MLK Day

Your Invited every other year to come along with us (from November the 25th to December the 15th) virtually on our (10th) biannual Mars "Tourism Flight"

  http://www.blueridgeairlines.com/prod_desc_MarsFT.html?sno=298

Our 2022 Mars Six Day Demonstration Flight Sequence 

Always remember to not Simply Follow the Water

but always

               Transport the People with Water Bottles

Don’t be relegated to flying an iPad to and with antiquated space destinations / equipment aloft, come navigate an actual state-of-the-art, gravity generating Mars spaceliner to the universe and beyond in safety and comfort.

    

06-06-2022

As the world's first and safest FAA/AST registered air-space-Starline operation since 1994 you are invited to join us today as we journey to Mars and beyond. Thanks to God we here at Blue Ridge are the only ones building and operating certified manned related spaceships. Unlike anyone else in the world, ever since the opening of this century, on a 26 month rotation bases, one or more of our operational spaceships have helped us simulated over nine real time, manned, round trip flight to Mars and back.                                                                                                    

host our annual computer virtually based 66/26 years of celebrating our perfect local, national

Jeter to Goose Moose booster

Watts on the Moon

Dershana Saucerliner Venus Flight Home

Venus-Spacestation Passenger/Cargo Docking Flight

How do you tell the story of a Black History Month living legend 

Back in 2018, I ( Doug Haynes) was ask by my oldest brother (Elmer Haynes III) to conduct a interview of my Dad (Mr. Elmer Dewitt Haynes Jr), on a  story for the Academy of Model Aeronautics museum located in Indian. It seemed as though they were looking to finally honoring my Dad for his amassing work in the world of aircraft modeling. Needless to say I got so excited for my Dad because, at last he was final being recognizes for his talents and skills.   It seems that he was finally being honored for both his historical pioneering work in the field of modeling aircraft and his championship overs huddles such as racial bigotry and prejudice. I must admit that I was also some-what taking back and a bit intimidated at the ideal, but then after realizing his story of ridiculed, ostracization, setbacks and failures mixed with, trumpets and victories, along the way was familiar. In fact it was actually the story of my entire family’s personal struggles to contribute to Americans rich history. I also soon realized that this story of personal valor, despite it all, could also servers to highlight about 243 years of struggles, minimizations, plight and advancements of all African Americans. So as an effort to document the contents of the 2018 interview, I decide to turn it into his short life scrip before sending it to my big brother.

My Dad intro

My Dad’s, almost a century old, aviation championship story of his trials, tribulations and victories , as encountered over the decades, tends to prove the positive. It shows the fact that positive thinking, superior talent and intellect, mixed with tenacity and blessing from God wins out every time. It also proves that hard work trumps bigotry and prejudice time and time again. I have always said that when I’m old and gray I want to look back on life and be reminded that I never settled along the way. Well if anyone can make such a monumental claim like that is my Dad. Elmer Dewitt jr. raised us all to believe that the motto in this family is that “we fall down and get right back up”. Despite it all, in the end, both an upbeat perspective and positive energy will always win out. It’s this notion that “good guys finish first in the end” has help me continual my pursuit of being the first and only person, (black or white) in the world to transition a FAA certified passenger / cargo airline that used radial shaped engines to fly around the world into a FAA-AST registered spaceline that employee’s radial shaped, flying saucer-liners to transports people throughout the universe.

This amazing aeronautical connection between model aircraft building endeavors of yesterday and successful flying saucers engagements of today must be fully attributed to my Dad’s life and times as the pioneering aviator / pilot of today. In fact, he was the only reason I opted to build round shape aircrafts throughout the balance of my aeronautical carrier.  One might think that because the Roswell UFO incident was less than a decade old, or the fact that F W  Wilcox directed classic  Sci Fi / Adventure movie named “The Forbidden Planet” had just been released (by the time I was born) and served to influence me toward endorsing the mystical flying saucer configuration,  but as always, the truth is stranger than fiction. You see, early-on my 3 older brothers elected to build their favorite geometrically wing shaped aircraft, such as trapezoid, gull, delta and even bi-wing configurations as a means of carving-out their individual aeronautical sibling identity’s. So therefore by the time I came along, as the last of the group of sons, I was not left with many options of self-expression aloft. Because of slim picking leftovers I was left to wonder aimlessly toward selecting perhaps one of the least aeronautically stabile, and most obscured “round winged” configurations.

Thanks to God, and my Dad’s guiding hands, I have spent my entire life getting such a mystifying aeronautical profiled of a wing to safely fly. This mentoring to success episode is nothing new to my dad since historical records prove that he has been inspired many other black men to become famous leaders in the wonderful world of aviation and aerospace science for almost 100 years.  In fact during a time when blacks were not supposed to be model airplane enthusiasts or aviators, dad was busy helping a had full of Black Americans succeed. Eventually family members such as my brothers, Elmer, Duane and Darrell, my uncles Leroy, Eddy, and Clifford, and cousins like Bobby, Russell, Charles and little Mikey, and even myself, all achieved success in the field of aviation. As times passed, and despite it all, even neighbors such as Flavius, Andy and little Marvin successfully joined in. Dad never reserved his aeronautical brilliance to just the black community spot, as he often tried to help other races climb up the mountain of success, but as we shale learn in this historical story, most white men just would not listen either, or even offer to support his efforts.  

Don’t Argue with enslaved Jim Pierson Beckwith of the 1800’s

You could say that a great initial back-drop story of how a few of my ancestors would often use innovation and creative thinking first came to light about 200 years ago. This illumination became the case at the turn of the 19^th century when one of my family members, named Jim P Pierson Beckwith, was born into slavery. This took place on the 26^th of April, somewhere between 1798 and 1805, in Fredericksburg Virginia. Jim Beckwith, was the 3^rd of 13 children born to his black enslaved mouther and white Irish, English nobility descendent father named Sir Jennings.

Though born into slavery, within a few decades Jim Beckwith would find a way to succeed “in America for America”.  Around 1809, Jim  Beckwith family moved to St. Louis Missouri with their farther / master in lead. While growing up in Virginia his father eventually trained Jim Pierson Beckwith as a blacksmith before freeing all of the kids. After getting fired for arguing with his mintering blacksmith boss at the age of 19,  Jim Beckwith had enough of blacksmithing, and was now on his own. Finally, after navigating the paroles of racism and bigotry as a youth, and with this newfound freedom at hand,  Jim Beckwith, was on his way to historical American fame.

Free His Bloody Arm

Because of his newly found freedom and intellect, and while en-route to becoming one of the most successful and famous American western frontier trailblazers, Jim Beckwith, would eventually change his name to James Beckwourth.  Because he wanted to be on the open road James  eventually met and was hired by William Henry Asley of the Fur Company. William Asley wanted him to be a emigrant trail guide. James quickly agreed to such a offer, and while working the Fur Company Jim Beckwith met other outdoors men such as William and Milton Sublette, Hugh Glass, Thomas Fitzpatrick, and Jim Bridger. However, because of  his mixed-skin color, and the good-o-boy network at large refusal to play fair, no one, was willing to lend this “champion of the art” a helping hand. So there-for Jim Beckwith, had to learn the ins and out of his new trade on his own. He did this successfully while traveling widely through hazardous and uncarted areas of early America. These uncarted areas of western America would eventually be known as Colorado, Montana, Utah and Wyoming. Because of hard work my frontiersmen serving ancestor soon became historically know for possessing superior outdoorsmanship skills. James Beckwourth developed skills in the vast areas of fur trader, explorer hunting, trapping, fishing, gambler, blacksmith, wrangler, rancher, entrepreneur store/ hotel keeper, fighter, soldier, US Army wagon scout/master, mail courier, and even a well know author. To go one step better than the rest, and because of these un-matched traits and abilities as a frontiersman, James Beckwourth eventually became not only one of the few Crow Indian communities famed black medicine men, but a tribal Chef of it all as well.  Like many of the men and women in my family, James Beckwourth superior athletic abilities, as displayed during his time as a legendary frontiersmen / military solder, fighting against the best of the best, earned him the nick name “Bloody Arm”.

James Beckwourth worked hard at his trade. Eventually eastern based companies who were engaged in guiding emigrants west soon discovered that the, final, late fall, mountainous navigational part of the trip was just about too much for most people. He deiced to do something about it all since he knew the area of the country so well and began searching for a better rout west. Because of his connection with the indigenes tribes of the Sierra Mountains area, James  Beckwourth soon was show a much easier route toward northern California. The new route needed bit of clearing here and their, but it was better than trying to take the much higher, and more dangerous north Truckee path. But may emigrants just would not listen to his guidance or recommendations and became scared to travel all the way to the gold rushing California. This was the case since many miss-guided or ill-informed pioneering settlers headed west either decided to stop and homestead in places like Denver, turned back, or eventually died from the hurling ordeal. This was soon to be the case with the Donner-Reed wagon train during the mid-19^th century.

Doubting Donners Die Arguing with James P Beckwourth

Death and destruction along the way west was the tragic case with the Donners-Reed party back in the surprisingly bitter cold and snowing winter of 1846 to 1847. Despite the many cautions and hazardous warnings issued by my family member, James Beckwourth, about not heading west so late in May of 1846 from Independence Missouri, or not to follow conmen like Mr. Lansford Hastings inaccurate guidebook information. He warned them all of not using such poor information that seemed to endorse using the way too high, and much too haphazard, Truckee City mountainous pathway into northern California during the late fall.  But a few west-ward headed emigrants just would not listen to him and instead put their trust in scammer of the times. Such was the case with the Donner party argued with James Beckwourth recommendations before   foolishly opting to go their own way across the Sierra Mountains. The Donners decided to follow the north Truckee California pass, toward an unforeseen and tragically cannibalism like life-style winter ordeal instead of following James Beckwourth’s more prudent routing. While the last major pioneering train headed west in 1946 only to end up eating their Indian guys pickup along the way, for dinner 9 months later. Others westerly pointed emigrants wisely figure out that this humble black man named James Beckwourth could, and would steer them toward much more fruitful future.

As a direct result of the Donner’s option to not follow my ancestor’s leadership back in the late 1840’s, it now looked like the hope of opening-up California from the east during late fall was proving to be a bit more difficult than originally though. Because of such a notion James Beckwourth trail guiding industry was losing customers left and right. He deiced to do something about it all since he knew the area of the country so well.  Because the motto in this family is that “we fall down and get right back up” James Beckwourth knew that he had found a much better way through it all but the route needed a bit of work.  His new route was actually about 2,000 foot lower than the Truckee Cal trail path and James Beckwourth believe that he would receive both fame and fortune for opening up the west for hundreds and hundreds of emigrating families. After contacting several potential investors of his dream route the city of Marysville (Named after one of the decedents of the ill-fated Donner-Reed- Murphy family’s) agree to compensate him for his work effort. The city of Marysville was so excited about the prospect of James Beckwourth safely leading so many intact-wagon trains filled with emigrating settlers their way. With this written “commitment to pay” agreement in hand, James Beckwourth began clearing out a much better route that lied far away from the more hazardously 7,057-foot high, north trail area near Truckee Cal. Thankfully, due to his intellect and intuitive technological ingenuity, and hard work, one of my great ancestors stepped-up, took charge as a leader, and established his own way through it all.

Like most American of the time. James Beckwourth 5,221 altitude passageway through the Sierra Nevada mountains would soon prove to be the successful way of the gold mining west. Unfortunately, after working so hard, under the false primes that the city of Marysville would eventually pay him for his efforts the trail.

Impersonating Greatness for a Century

 In 1851, James Beckwourth did what others could not, he successfully found a means of safely leading his initial group emigrants along this once, ancient and very hazardous Indian before steering them 5,000 feet down toward the very attractive, gold rushing, and fast growing, town of Marysville Cala. While Marysville was actually named after Meriam (Mary) Murphy, one of the 14 year old surviving children of the Donner-Reed-Murphy emigrating party, the more northern and dangerous Truckee City route was tragically named after the entire emigrating party’s 1947 wintering cannibalism life-style incident. On the other hand, this new and much more prudent path that headed right to Marysville was more positively name after my family member James Beckwourth’s triumph-full deeds of saving them all. This story proves that in short, either op to follow most of my family members leadership skills, and or, recommendations as pointed toward success, or risk losing you way, or perhaps your life. This is the case as recorded in American homesteading history, since some opted heed James Beckwourth‘s warnings, which yielded positive outcomes while others chose not too and actually paid the heaviest price of all, their lives. Rather than give James Beckwourth his credit due, for decades a few miss-guided white Americans’ who did decided to follow his lead to success, also elected to steal the credit for it all. For almost a century no famous historian or noted authors of the true wild, wild west were willing to get the story right. Many stated that white men like William and Milton Sublette, Hugh Glass, Thomas Fitzpatrick, Jim Bridger, where were James Beckwourth friends and even Buffalo Bill Cody and Davie Crocket did it all, for us all, all the time. Unfortunately, because of such unjustifiable impersonations, it was clear that like so many other great black men of America, James Beckwourth could succeed while fighting against the best of the best, but not being elevated by the best of the best.

Just Right for Civil Rights

Finally during the1900’s the truth came out of how my ancestor, James Beckwourth superior work helped thousands of settlers from the east successfully homestead in northern California’s second largest city of the early 19th century. Soon James Beckwourth trail to the most fruitful gold rushing spot in California became one of the primary routes traveled. In fact City’s along the way, or about 5,000 feet below its highest points of travail, such as Marysville, ow their very existences to the establishment of  this historical James Beckwourth trail. After its completion,  James Beckwourth passes became the fastest growing, and most travel route to northern California. This was the case from 1851 to about 1855, or until it became a commercializes, overpriced toll road. Later Mohawk Railway became the first commercial transporter to use such a lower altitude passageway in the winter, and later both Wester and Union Pacific railroad followed suit.

Almost a century later it was the recognition of intuitive / positive leadership behavior patterns like James Beckwourth that prompted leaders of the civil rights movement of the 60’s to boast about members of my famous family’s superior intellect. Unfortunately as the century’s rolled by, James Beckwourth, and or, his four Indian and one African American wives, many of their children, and the rest of the follow-on decedents never did receive their long over-due fortune for such hard work, but God insured that James Beckwourth did get his rightful fame for it all. For example, during the mid to late 60’s, civil rights leaders were trying to find positive historical leadership examples of why African American men should not only be respected/honored but chose and highlighted as leaders toward success. Despite keeping their pomes, Marysville never did pay him for all his painstaking creation and upkeep work, as engage-in over the years. In fact it was not until after strong outcries and upheaval demonstrations that the city of Marysville was forced to do the right thing. Though finical reformations with century old inters of it all are clearly in order, finally by 1996, Marysville  decided to not only name a park, but a few of their fall “Frontier Day” celebrations after one of my greatest American ancestors, James Beckwourth. Even the US government was encouraged to put one of my ancestor’s likeness on one of their 1994, 29 cents, postage stamps. Today, almost 2 centuries later, this James Beckwourth path, that lies near route 70,  Chilcoot-Vinton Cal, in Plumas County, 20 miles east of Portola, Cal, and about 25 miles north of Reno Nevada is steal in use.

Elmer Dewitt Haynes Sr saves them all

While reflecting on this story of family heroic pioneering success I was also reminded of the times when I was becoming the youngest aviator in the history of America while attending a Tulsa Ok based aviation maintenance / flight school during the early 70’s. This was the case while I was getting the off chance of setting at the feet of my grandfather (the original Elmer Dewitt Haynes Sr. of Texas. During one of his half sleepy rambling-off talk sessions, Senor Elmer Haynes recalled his legendary days of serving as a minimized and disputed African American military leader of it all.  As always, and like  James Beckwourth’s trials and tribulations, some of the Americas around him opted to listened to his intellect and often succeeded, while others did not, and occasionally dye for it. While rambling on about his broken dreams and shattered hopes of life in the army, my grandfather began to pride-fully tell me how he would often save his Patton from utter destruction repeatedly. On this day, one of his accounts focused on a story of when his military division was cough in the middle of a firefight with no communication capabilities. This was the case as due to faulty equipment.

Regretfully none of the commissioned officers or specially trained/assigned radio operators knew how to fix the damage radio antenna array package. As in true fashion remained un-deterred in his job at hand and soon began looking for a much better remedy to the situation.  Because the motto in this family is that “we fall down and get right back up” Elmer Sr. knew that he would find a better way through it all, and he did . However, because of  his skin color, and the good-o-boy network at large refusal to play fair, no one was willing to lend this “champion of the art” a helping hand, so he had to learn the ins and out of his trade on his own. Thankfully, due to his intellect and intuitive technological ingenuity, one of my great ancestors stepped-up, took charge as a leader, and established a safe way out of it all. While some of the troupes opted to run away to their unforeseen demise, others decided to take an interest to what this humble man proclaimed he could do the rectify the matter. By the grace of God, my grandfather ingeniously turned a discarded metal bedframe into both a radio antenna and its associated grounding plane during the ambushed. This re-modeling of the defective communication equipment final allowed his commander offices and personnel to successfully radio for backup military engagement help. It’s not clear if he received any formula commendation for such heroic acts of valor,  and sound like Elmer Sr. could succeed against the best of the best, but not with the best of the best. However, in the end, he worked to save the lives of many black and white Americans. Like most of us, Elmer Sir.  sometimes could be heard mumbling in Tulsa Ok,  about broken dreams and shattered hopes of life wishes gone bad, but in retrospect we all just don’t see it that way.  Thankfully, this act of heroism has always been commonly found within the ranks of my bold and intelligent family members like James Beckwourth, so it easy to see how such noble traits would eventually be  pass down to his first male born, and my father, Elmer Jr.

Biography of Mr. Elmer Dewitt Haynes Jr. of Denver Colorado

Unlike what was the fascinating case with the famous Wright Brother of aeronautical history whose mother’s DNA gifted them with handcraft talents, my family is the opposite. 

I suppose one could say that it was the inherent technological talent that the males in my family, such as my grandfather's innate talents as a handy craftsmen, rather than the women side of the family, has helped us succeed as aviators. Other male members of my family include James Pierson Beckwourth (the mountain man of the west), the beloved Mayor Bradly (of LA), the popular and innovating Sly and the Family Stones singing group (of the west coast-based music industry), the magical Marcus Haynes (of the famed Harlem Globe Trotters basketball team, the dual football industries record setting Abner Haynes, of the AFL, and OJ Simpsons (of the NFL) seemed to also set the standers of excellences. If the men in my multi-dimensional family were great Americans, then the woman of our clan did one better. Historically famous family lades such a Muddy Anders, one of the first black woman practitioner of Americas Christion Science church, and her daughter "Mimi Anders" also work to forge a nurturing foundation of love throughout us all.

A Star is born

Thankfully, the skills of my ancestors like Elmer Sr, as passed down the line to us, seems to have worked over the millennium to help me and others become leaders in many fields ranging from model airplanes to aerospace science. To go one step further, perhaps it has even worked to help the other two Elmer’s in our family (my Dad and oldest brother) combat the ills of racial bigotry, prejudice and ostracization. They did this by successfully competing in the field of aircraft modeling craftsmanship. Due to such negative segregation practices adhered to in cities across America such as Denver, instead of having the right to be delivered / birth at a public hospital, my Dad’s was relegated to arrive into this word on the 28^th day of March 1929 at his parents’ home. Like most African American newborns of Denver’s early history, this historical event was successfully accomplished via the medical help of Colorado famous first black female doctor named Justina Laurena Warren, (Ford and later Allen).  Since Doctor Ford was not allowed to be part of any Colorado hospitals teams for most of her 50 years of practicing medicine, she had come to believed that the best place to birth a child was at their home. Because of her skin color and utile the 1950’s she was forced to delivering over 7,000 babies’ this way. However in this particular case the left-handed baby boy name Elmer jr, delivered near the end of a windy March riddled month of 1929 would be the first of his 7 follow-on Denver based siblings. Soon Frances, Leroy, Edward, Clifford Nancy, Paula and Jone would follow in such great fashion.

1930’s Getting started

While growing up in Colorado Elmer, Jr began to display an inherent aptitude for hand craft work. In fact, by the age of 10 Elmer was hard at work displaying his superior handcrafting talents among his fellow Ellsworth Element School’s classmates. It seems that this wood working class was his favorite despite the fact that because of his color, unlike like the rest of his white counterparts, he was not allowed to use any power tools let aloud be allowed to answer any of the school’s phones. Thankfully he was too young to understand the meaning of it all and continued to hone his inherit handyman traits with joy and laughter. During this time Elmer did not seem to care what it was that needed done,  he just wanted to get his hands on it and start handy crafting away.

1940’s First model building experience

By1941 Elmer jr ha migrated from Ellsworth Element School’s to Aron Glove Jr High.   Fortunately, during the time of his attendances at Glove Jr High School’s various sectors of the US military, such as its Army Air-core Group were searching for new resources like aircraft models’ organizations to help develop soiled wooden model aircraft to us as illustration props for their troops WW II emery aircraft spotting education programs. The Army felt that beautifully scaled replicas of various friend or foe aircraft could be shown to the solders as training aid. As luck would have it, one of the Army Air-core representatives ask the teacher in Elmer’s wood working class to find student volunteers that wanted to build 3D scale model wooden airplane replicas of both the German and Japanese aircraft for their WW II friend or foe enemy areal personnel aircraft spotting program. 

Needless to say, the left-handed Jr high school Haynes jr. jumped at the opportunity to advance his wood working skills. Unbeknownst to Elmer, and thanks to the Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA) rules of the road,  this historic volunteering gesture, would eventually work to break the discriminatory roadblocks that curtly were holding the full blossoming of his handy-skills back.

1943 First Academy of Model Aeronautics AMA model building experience

While in search for some of its first new members, the youthful, Indiana based, Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA) organization elected to expand this membership off the creation of the military’s national enemy spotter identification programs. AMA successful accomplished such a feat by opting to alloy participating members of the military’s “friend or foe” model aircraft build-up program to join their organization despite one’s race, color, or creed. Fortunately, during the mid to late 40’s, AMA all-inclusive invitation platform allow Elmer Jr. to become one of the few AMA organization participants to actually acquire one of the first four-digit membership numbers. This newfound inclusion practice would work to change his life forever, while only costing him about $10.00 a year. Elmer Jr. would proudly keep this historical four-digit AMA founding membership recognition permit until he would be recertified as one of  Denver’s original local club leader a decade later. Elmer found himself participating in his jr high schools wood-working class assembly-line like practices of building various pieces and parts of 12 inch wide, scales model aircraft. They were using military issued cardboard temples to help them scale-down models of enemy aircraft such as the German ME109 or Japanized Messerschmitt.  While everyone was fully engaged in build their individual parts of the varying wooded enemy aircraft and bombers, because of his skin color, the youthful and enthusiastic pupils working assignments were being marginalized. Because Elmer jr  was steal too young to understand many of the negative power of the mid 40’s racism practices floating all around him, he was actually proud to be the first and only hand sanding expert craftsman in his class. Though this discriminating practice was both unfair and horrific toward a child, it would serve as a launching pad for Elmer to become one of the greatest pioneering model aircraft builders in the world.

 Mid 40’s First gas model building experience

Fortunately, during his time in Aron Glove Jr High School’s wood working classes, he witnessed one of his fellow classmates attempting to build a static model aircraft that had been purchased from a local hobby shop down the street. However this type of softer wooden like model required a different set of handy-craftmanship skills, and because of my dad’s wood-working abilities were so refined by now he was quickly requested to join in on the completion of such an exciting aeronautical project.

Somewhere along the way, during the process of helping complete such an opportunistic woodworking project Elmer jr. became firmly hooked on the practices of acronical modeling for life. Not only did Elmer jr  began dreaming of owing such a woodworking craft of his own, but to embrace the quest to fly such an aircraft model as well. However, because of  his skin color, and the good-o-boy network at large refusal to play fair, no one was willing to lend this “champion of the art” a helping hand so he had to learn the ins and out of his trade on his own. Even though Elmer jr had no mentors, and there for no real ideal of what he was aeronautically doing during 1943, the big brother of the Denverite Haynes family did find work as a part-time “pin re-setter” for a local bowing-ally. He decided to use some of his earnings from his bowing-ally job to purchase his first soiled wood model aircraft.  After several un-successful attempts to convert a 6-inch piece of solid wooden block into a delicate and attractively streamlined aero-project he finally managed to figure must of it out. However, like in most solo “first try” cases, without mentorship guidance’s or support, his first acceptable looking craft of the air just could not fly. Thanks to his fancy handy work it looked o-so-good, but since it was made of solid wood, it was just too heavy. While undaunted by such a defeat, he quickly purchased a second, and much lighter weight, 25-foot-wide, Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber scale model aircraft. This unpowered, partial -out,  wooden kit project would prove to be even harder to build since its skimpy wings would actually need to be covered by silk. This was done by the kit manufacturer to make the whole package lighter and therefore flyable.  Though Elmer had no ideal at first how to work with silk, thankfully as time went on, and because of his excellent craftsmanship skills, and intellect, this second stab at aeronautical modeling came out just as a beautiful sight to see. But in actuality, his second fully completed model’s flying abilities met with the same unsuccessful fate. Little Elmer jr. would try to throw Douglas Dauntless dive bomber it into the air over and over, harder and harder, again and again, but to no avail. Launching it nose up or down seem to have little effect on the scale model aircraft’s overall flight endurance aloft traits. Elmer soon realized that if the first one he built was to heavy, perhaps the second one was just to underpowered.

While things were looking o-so-good on the ground, they were looking o-so-bad for the young aviator aloft. But the motto in this family is that “we fall down and get right back up”. So with this notion at hand Elmer jr. shook it all off by deciding to go get some advice from others before attempting a third try. Despite potential liability issues between merchants and customers,  the only one willing to help Elmer out in the mid 40’s was one of the employees of the hobby shop down the street from his jr high school. The somewhat reluctantly, but helpful attendee of the hoppy-shop recommended that my Dad switch over to building gas powered balsawood enhancing models, so off he went changing aviation gears of life

1943 First Gas powered category aircraft

Elmer Jr followed this suggestion of switching his taste of model airplanes from un-hand-powered to motorized powered  craft.  Soon afterwards he proudly purchased his very first gas powered flying aircraft called the Playboy. The cool-new Playboy aeronautical project not only seem to possess a 36-inch wingspan, but to fix the issue of no flight success it was to be powered by a gas burning engine called an Osem 23.

However because the war was just about peaking, gas was hard to come by for a lade of his stature, so the task of  getting modeling toys aloft over and over again as his play-thing, or Playboy, would eventually prove improbable.  But despite this fact he found a way to manage it all for the time being, and once assembled in 1943 he could not wait to pedal his bike all the way to his newly designated flying field. Such an exciting place for a teenage was actually just an isolated part of the Wilshire Golf Course nearby. While wondering and hoping  that new project would finally be the one to do it all, by flying up, up, and beyond it all, he speared no youthful energy jumping the private fence with airplane in hand. After all he was in full pursuit of test out his powerful new toy of the air so no one could stop him no.  Finally, “Eureka” it worked, something he built by hand not only look good but actually took to the air. Indeed, success was at hand despite the fact that he had to acquire a war time gas rationing card to fuel his new contraption. He finally found success in the air.  Over the next 2 weeks The Haynes built Playboy flew a total of three times before finally crashing to its complete demise. However, all was not loss since this occurrence would not be the first model aircraft  that would eventually crash to its death over the next half century or more. Elmer jr’s aircraft were finally flying, but not at their best, so he would have to go to work trying to change this condition at hand sooner than later by pioneering new whistles and bells if he was going to be successful at his trade as a black aviator.  So to rectify the situation Elmer decide to start building flying and creating new pioneering whistles and bells for the much more costly and complicated model aircraft. 

Circling Category Aircraft of 1944

Finally, success in the air was all that the youth full aviator needed to self-motivate him to dive further into the world of model airplane crafting.  However, Elmer quickly discovered that because of gas issues things associated with gas powered flight would have to be extremely streamline during the war since petroleum and financial resources were limited.  So in responses such a limiting reality he quickly switched over to flying either rubber ban powered, small hand tossed, free flight style craft, or completely unpowered gliders. However, because of  his skin color, and the good-o-boy network at large refusal to play fair, no one was willing to lend this “champion of the art” a helping hand so he had to learn the ins and out of his new line of aircraft modeling and flying on his own. Fortunately, during the closing years of the war not only did he successfully build 3 gliders but constructed a few rubber-band windup type of kit aircraft as well. One of the rubber-band models almost won him his first award for displaying the longest flight of the day. This would have been the case, but because of his skin color he was unfairly denied success at participating with superior equipment like so many other black men of the times. It seemed that the biasing good-o-boy system of American racism toward black was hard at work.

It at least seemed like this was the case as the judges of the contest discovered a lop-hole in the rules and worked to discreated his overall superior  aerial display of success.  The contest was  set up to highlight a model aircrafts flight endurances time aloft abilities. While other aircraft wasted no time flying a few feet away from their launching points before touching down, Elmer’s model did something much more spectacular. Elmer jr’s, and most of the older spectators were so amazed about how such a young lads craft not only stayed aloft twice as long as the rest of the bunch, but displayed the fling ability to circle around for a return landing at its original launching point. Wow what a flight, Elmer  did it. Over the years he had learned to fly with the best of the beast. May though to themselves that surely this little boy from out of the blue would easily win such a contest. But as faith would have it, the judges re-decided to base the winning flight on a distances flow along a straight line, so therefore they had the authority to rule Elmer’s unlikely circling craft a looser of it all. 

Wow what a blow, and while most of us would have called foul in our youthful days, or become upset, not Elmer jr.  Because the motto in this family is that “we fall down and get right back up Elmer jr. knew that he would find a better way through it all. Thankfully, due to his intellect and intuitive technological ingenuity, one of my great ancestors stepped-up, took charge as a leader, and established his own way out. Since he had no idea what racism looked or felt like, and despite this biasing episode made appear as a looser of it all. , the Jr. aviator chose to focus on other more meaning full things. He was so happy about the fact that his work was not only flying well at last, but actually competing with the best of the best. He left the are actually believing that if giving a fair chance one day, he would be actually rewarded for his successful efforts. Believe it or not this “can do” attitude served to set the positive thinking behavior, and or, stander of fighting bigotry, on his part for the rest of his life. Elmer jr’s aircraft were finally flying but in circles and this was causing him to lose contest, so he would have to go to work trying to change this condition at hand sooner than later by pioneering new whistles and bells if he was going to be successful at his trade as a black aviator.  So to rectify the situation Elmer decide to start building flying and creating new pioneering whistles and bells for the much more costly and complicated free flight category aircraft. 

Free flight Category Aircraft of 1945

Finally, as the war ended, during his high school days, and because of his love of a new hobby Elmer found himself switching his employment location over to a newly established Downtown Denver hobby shop.  Many residences of today, including me and my family,  steal remember how this new and improved hobby shop was established on the second floor of the famous Walgreens shopping store.  This employment upgraded association with his love of flying served to help him finally hone-in on the resources and knowledge needed to become successful at his craft. However, because of  his skin color, and the good-o-boy network at large refusal to play fair, no one was willing to lend this “champion of the art” a helping hand, so he had to learn the ins and out of his new line of aircraft modeling and flying on his own.  After a few failed tries on his own, Elmer Haynes jr. finally figured it out on his own' and finally began to succeed.

However, this early success in life created an unexpected issue. Instead of losing contest because his aircraft were flying in circulars paths, his much more powerful free flight category aircraft were now flying so high and so far down range in a straight line that neither he of the judges could retrieve them as proof of an actual measurable endurance success. Elmer jr. found himself being miss judge time and time again. This was systemically being done by the white community via, simply referencing some wild form of technical violation here and there. It now seemed like once more nothing was good enough for many of the negative renegade type of competitors and judges at large. Again Elmer discovered that he would have to work toward changing this condition at hand sooner than later by pioneering new whistles and bells if he was go to be successful at his trade as a black aviator.  So to rectify the situation Elmer decide to start building flying and creating new pioneering whistles and bells for the much more costly and complicated Control Line category aircraft. 

First Control Line flyers of the late 40’s

Even as WW II had ended, and black aviators such as the Tuskegee Airmen have triumphed over racism, steal nothing seem to be good enough for the good-o-boy judges of Colorado. So to combat the issue of flying to far down range around 1946, instead of the more prudent act of moving in a verifiable circular judging fashions back home, Elmer Jr elected to make a chain.  Elmer elected to switch over to the sporting category of control wire flying aircraft.  He realized that such type of aircraft was inherently expected by the judges to fly around and around in a circular path about the pilot, like a yoyo on a string.  Now under this new line of thinking, he could not only keep an eye on his prize-winning aircraft at all time, while aloft, he could also start flying them at closer neighboring fields.

So with this notion at hand, he soon upgrades from using a bicycles  front rack as the primary transporter compartment of his aeronautical goods and services to placing them into a little red “drag along wagon”. However, because of  his skin color, and the good-o-boy network at large refusal to play fair, no one was willing to lend this “champion of the art” a helping hand, so he had to learn the ins and out of his new line of aircraft modeling and flying on his own.  After a few tries on his own, Elmer Haynes jr. could now be seen touting his wagging down the street full of aircraft hobby supporting pieces and parts while in route to newer and more accessible flying felids. Not only did these various changes in flying field  proximity’s save him time and resources, they also triggered the phenomenon of transforming him into a local aeronautical celebrity among his family, friends and neighbors. This new line of craftsmanship also led him into building, competing and sometimes chasing hundreds of follow-on model aircraft over his life time. Aircraft like the Nobler, Ring Master, and even the Red-head Tarp model 35 suddenly became his superior tools of air flight championship.  Thanks to his membership in the AMA, he was finally able to join his first good-o-boy lead, model airplane flying club, called the RC Eagles in 1948. Not only did Elmer jr, soon learned to succeed at rat-racing his various control-liners, but became an expert in other equally comparative line of flight like ribbon cutting, balloon bursting, aerobatics, and even spot landing. Despite the tension of the quickly approaching Civil Rights era movement, and its associated cry of “equality among all”, the young aviator steal found a means of socially branching out as well. Finally, things were about the change for the good, for good.

1950’s First and only African American Leader / Director in the AMA

As the fifties open up Haynes Jr. Found himself having to striatal a multitude of adult responsibilities and opportunities.  For one thing the AMA was way ahead of the Civil Rights movement to push for equality, as they were in full support of the equality for all notion.  Suddenly the maturing aviator of Denver found himself having to balance his love for aircraft modeling with his love for others. The potentially distracting duties of serving as both a husband to his new bride, Jimmie Lee Kelly, and a father of five children. By the late 50’s his offspring’s count finally ceased once it grew to include his first and only girl, Debra Jean, who arrive almost on his 28^th birthday (1958).  Not only during the 50’s, was he busy become a new homeowner and a new, every two year Father, but by the time  the mid-century decade was done he would have finally climbed his way to the top of it all. With this growing ordeal of balancing a multitude of responsibilities like fatherhood and socialization aviator at hand, he smartly decided to convert his love of the air into a family sport/entertainment activity. Though Elmer’s wife, Jimmie Lee, was not all “in on” the overly expensive model aircraft hobby experience, his new bride did allow him a few aviation enthusiast luxuries along the way. Elmer found a way to not only setup a basement, model airplane building workshop that feely housed wall to wall power-tools, but he also volunteered to host mixed racial model club membership meetings in his basement. Since all this aviating was going on right next to my three brothers and I bedrooms the smell and taste of aircraft dope, paint and glue fill and influenced our youthful live forever. Lucky, his association with the AMA organization during this time, and their commitment to a more omnibus accepting of membership philosophy work to his favor. Elmer Jr. was not only afforded the opportunity to nurture his family but also could thrive in the world of aircraft modeling.  Not many men, or women, have been able to accomplish such a dubious task as this.  Elmer was also able to meet plenty of new friends and competitors around the area as well. The success he felt after being accepted into a second aircraft model group, called the Aurora Prop Busters, eventually gave him the “branching out” confidence to form his own flying club.

Modeling a model airplane flying club

Elmer Jr. was so excited about trying to start a model airplane build/flying club of his own, called the "Fly Rights" but much to his regrets, such a revolutionary notion of a black leader of it all was just “too much too soon”.  Because of  his skin color, and the good-o-boy network at large refusal to play fair, no one was willing to lend this “champion of the art” a helping hand, let alone any subordinate help. This act of leadership by the maturing African American was to be of no avail. In fact this bold thought of stepping out as a self-proclaimed leader of the good-o-boy group quickly ran into the reality that his skin color minimization efforts were alive and well. It seemed that none of the white members of the local Denver metro area AMA organization were willing to risk the effort of following one of my family members down a better, and more improver path of success. They collectively opted to ignore his leadership traits and went the other way.  As in the past with so many of my famous family member, like Beckworth and Elmer Sr., white America opted to not follow this blessed leader in aviation to success, and such obstinate action only led to their failures and losses in the end.  It soon seems that once again Elmer jr. could succeed against the best of the best, but not with the best of the best. This was the case since Elmer jr. soon found himself using advanced pioneering building and flying skills with aircraft such as the “Baby” and standard 4-inch “Streak” size models to beat the local competition time and time again for the next three up and coming decades.

One of his most memorial impacting stories of the times

During the 50’s the “lone black wolf” of model aviation industry was blessed at both building and flying his model aircraft, as the world watched Elmer jr. grow more and more skillful. It was not easy, every now and then, one or two jealous and biasing white, renegade personalities like a competitor of official judge would unfairly count him out without cause. This was often systemically done by simply referencing some wild form of technical violation. It seemed like once more nothing was good enough for many of the negative renegade type of judges. However, thanks to God, and despite the racially charged, biasing treatments at large, many of the competing parties would see through the unfair practices and a few would opt to give him their first palace trophies instead of minimizing he amazing work.  This was gracefully done in support of good-natured righteousness often found in America.

Ending the 50’s by Organizing it all

Eventually, as the 50’s reached for a close-out, and since no one in the Denver metro area would not join any of his clubs, he decided to ask the more open minded, national AMA body for help. Elmer was looking for them to help him become the first and only black model aircraft competition event organizer. Though he would have to trade in his historic 1940’s “four digits” founding AMA membership number for a much longer, and later organizer designation card, such an upgraded statue would finally grant him the opportunity to lead something back home.  Elmer jr. would then have the opportunity to not only set up and run meets and or contest around the area but to do so on a much more equitable bases then what he was witnessing at the time. Fortunately, the national office was not tracking the color of one’s skin, and because of this fact AMA just felt that they were justifying rewarding a high achiever to his rightful statues. This up-grade meant that Elmer jr would be authorized to organize the various flying contest around the area on a professional basis. Elmer jr. would have to not only engage in such leadership activity’s as finding a suitable flying site for them all, but he would also be responsible for purchase ribbons and trophies for the best of the best. The once ostracized and minimized “lone wolf” of the American model aviation industry found a way of  doing such task while also nurturing, and or, encourage his growing flock of participating aviators.  

A man before his time pioneered through it all with whistles and bells 

One of the biggest spinoffs from being a leader of it all was that Elmer jr soon gained a bolder attitude toward pioneering newer and more advanced aircraft modeling technologies. For example, the self-modified construction of the world’s first gigantic twin engine scaled, DC-6 airliner became his primary passion. Elmer jr modified this authentically conceived, and massive control-line aeronautical project to featured state-of-the-art whistles and bells. In order to show off his advanced craftsmanship and electrical wiring skills, Elmer jr.  decided to start-off be installing self-designed and fabricated amenities such as the world’s first, scaled, fully electrically powered, retracting landing gear packaged. Wow what a challenge,  but that not all since the Unite Airline replicating -6 model airliner also contained items illuminating systems such as, retracting/ extending landings lights, red green and white navigational lamps,  and even a few individual cabin seating / reading bulbs. Believe it or not, Elmer jr. ingeniously designs the entire -6 electrical system to be powered from a DC batter pack, as attached to his hips belt strap. He figured out a way to actual rune a verity of switches, wires and control knobs from his hand grip all the way to the aircraft’s wingtip inlets. This is something that have never been duplicated. If the was not enough pioneer/ innovating in the late 50’s Elmer Jr. follow-up this line of superb craftsmanship and ingenuity with the unveiled his beautifully fames, black and white, stagger-wing Beechcraft. The now, fiver foot eight inches tall pioneer of the aviation modeling world went on to craft even more state-of-the-art aeronautical inventions during the closeout of the 50’s. This man before his time championed-in advanced inventions such as wheel-less aircraft flyaway dolly takeoff harnesses so control-lines and spinner-less props initial auto staring devices so that his models could possess both a self-take-off craft and safe starting capabilities respectfully.  In fact, it would not be until decades later that any members of the AMA, or aircraft modeling industry as a whole, would gain the ability to replicate such useful safe and money-making features. Slowly, and for a time Elmer  jr. begin to gain the respect and admiration of his fellow comrades in the industry. But times were changing and so was the judging criteria’s, and soon it would feel as though the Lone Wolf was one again all alone during his fight for equality and respect. He soon realized that this path was just not going to work in his future and it seem that Elmer jr. was right back at where he started. Again since the motto in this family is that “we fall down and get right back up Elmer jr.  knew that he would find a better way through it all. Thankfully, due to his intellect and intuitive technological ingenuity, one of my great ancestors stepped-up, took charge as a leader, and established his own way out.

1960 First RC Aircraft

As the 50’s rolled over to the 60’s all of the innovating/ pioneering whistles and bells install on his various control-liners were starting to outnumber the capability to individually control them with a single hand grip and its two control lines. Long ago jr’s  aircraft were flying in circulars paths instead of straight lines so he made their rudders straight for the judge’s enjoyment, then, his much more powerful free-flight category aircraft flew to high, and too far away in a straight-line , so he made them spiral down toward home. He made all these changes in order to successfully complete with the best of the best, and now it seemed that his high technology filled,  forever circulating, control-liners were staying way to close to home to be appreciated by the up-and-coming judges of remote radio control-liners (RC).  Elmer’s modified creations were clearly the state-of-the-art in control-line flight, but the new aircraft modeling criteria meant that his work was being criticized for not being able to fly further and further away for longer and longer periods of time,  while being guided by radio control (RC) technology. So once again Elmer discovered that he would have to work toward changing this condition at hand sooner than later by pioneering new whistles and bells if he were going to be successful at his trade as a black aviator. So to rectify the situation Elmer decide to start building and flying a newer line of  pioneering whistles and bells  that could be pointed at the much more costly and complicated remote-control category of model aircraft. 

Talking about being free at last, this uniquely design industry’s flexibilities literally  gave the middle age aviator maximum room to advance his pioneering whistles and bells craftsmanship aloft. If the judges wanted  model aircraft that could fly high, fast, far and true, while hosting maximum high technology whistles and bells at the same time, then they were now looking at the right man. But unfortunately as the 60’s continued to unfolded money needed to support the entry into an expensive hobby like radio-controlled flight while raising five children was hard to come by. On the other hand the RC industry was young and need advancing everywhere so with this at hand, Elmer knew he had to worked harder and smarter than all the rest to make the switch. Finally,  in a few short years, after dragging all of his aircraft, whistles and bell of the past along, and because of his superior intellect and craftsmanship, Elmer jr.  once again found himself successfully leading the way. Elmer jr dabbled and modified a verity of remote-controlled category of aircraft.  Who would know that this category of aircraft would someday serve to create the foundation of not only civilian but military grade spy-planes, drones, guided missiles and even prototype spaceships.

 In time, his pioneering state-of-the-art whistles and bells designing practices grew to incorporated “world first”, scale modeling innovations such as modulating parachutes doors, retraction wheels, extending and retracting tail hooks, and even “above the wing” auto-glider launching cradles. Later he applied such electronically activated innovational work toward model boats, ships, and racing cars of all shapes, sizes and venues. On any giving weekend Elmer jr. could be seen either happily stunting, rate-racing, ribbon cutting, or balloon bursting many of his control-liners, frantically retrieving one or two of his favorite long-winded free-fliers, or acrobatically manipulating, parachute releasing, and spot landing a few of his top-winged or scaled RC aircraft. Looking back on it all it was obvious that over the decades Elmer  had spent a lot of money on becoming the best of the best in his hobby of choice. All this while raising a great family of seven, and nurturing hundreds of aeronautical enthusiasts like cousins,  friends, neighbors, club members, spectators, and contestants toward success.

Elmer jr. had giving us his all, soon he began thinking that it was time to get something back. So after watching lesser men make a profit at selling their inferior, but useful, pieces and parts of hobby modeling devices, he decided it was his turn to try making a buck at it all. In short, Elmer jr.’s success at innovation finally lead him to the notions of commercializing it all. Like a typical business minded person, and as a means of shearing his revolutionary ideals with the world, Elmer decided to pot his skills on sale.

No opening for open his own hobby shop

After exploring a verity of options, and like may of his top performing friends,  Elmer jr. finally decided to try opening his own local hobby shop.  However, and once again, because of  his skin color, and the good-o-boy network at large refusal to play fair, no one was willing to lend this “champion of the art” a helping hand. Though Elmer tried and tried to fine supports, and or, investors for his business ideal, in reality, and like most black Americans of the era, there was just no possibility of opening his own business in white America. It soon seemed that once again Elmer jr. could succeed against the best of the best but not with the best of the best.

To make matters worse whenever Elmer’s  family and other African American friends would travel with him to out of the state model aircraft competition spots, such as Wyoming, where they were not only met with despair in route, but bigotry on site. It seems that their skin color alone worked to band the entire group from most of the restaurants and hotels encountered along the way

Despite my brother’s and my preference for low wing scaled model looking aircraft such as the P-51 Mustangs or German gull wing Stuka Dive Bomber, our dad Elmer felt that the use of high wing aircraft was much better. Right from the start Elmer learned that high winged model aircraft such as the Piper Cubs and even the Tailor Craft was a much more stable and prudent style of aircraft building and flying practices. So with this belief system at hand, and during many of these flying contest spread out around the area, Elmer found a way to dominate the field. His masterly building and use of aircraft such as the famed control-line flying Ring Masters or the high wing, RC controlled Jenny’s to help him set the standard for model aircraft piloting. Elmer jr was finally gaining respect for his aeronautical skills far and wide. Because of his kind nature he continual to reach-out to help both the white and people of color advance their model aircraft operation traits. Elmer worked hard to positively influencing black aviators and FAA certified pilots to aeronautical success during the middle of the civil rights era. He inspired black Aviators such as Elmer’s 4 sons, Elmer III, Darrell, Duane, and myself (Douglas), his brothers Leroy and Clifford, his older 1^st cousins Bobby and Russell, close friends and neighbors such as Flavious, Rowlen, and Andy Lewes. As time went on, he also mentored younger black aviators ranging from Marvin Collar to our little cousin Michael Haynes. Despite what we all were made to endure as second-class citizens along the way, Elmer would call for calmness and love for all people while helping them climb the ladder of success.  You see Elmer Jr. hold-heartily believes that it is much better to work toward the inclusion of all races instead of engaging in aggressively violent marches, riots, or boycotts. Since, because of his color,  Elmer was forced to become the world’s best hand-sander in his elementary wood working class, and despite our protest, he made my brothers and I sand away for hours and hours on end. He knew that it would make us better craftsmen, maybe better hard-working black men eventually.

1970’s

Just like the readers of this bio, by now, as the inflamed civil rights era transitioned from aggression to active resolution over what to do to stop the madness of the American white overseers madness Elmer was hard at worked doing the right thing for blacks and whites. During the opening of the 70’s Elmer was busy expanding his skills in perfecting scale boast, cars and aircraft. He even helped one of his white team members break the world’s longest control flight endurance record. The two worked hand in hand seeking a way to eclipse this record by flying a model aircraft for more than 9 hours straight. He also helped my oldest brother, Elmer III , to become one of the best model glider building/ flying competitors on the west coast. During my successful quest in 1995 to become the youngest FAA certified aircraft mechanic/pilots combination personality in history, thanks to my Dads preference for high wing aircraft, I triumphed. This was the case since I elected to use full size, top winged mounted, pilot trainer aircraft, like the famed Cessna 150’s 152’s, 172 and 182’s of the era.

1980’s Retirement from most of it all.

During the mid-1980’s, after nearly a half a century of successfully engaging in competitive model aircraft encompassing events such as ballooned-bursting, rat-racing, ribbon-cutting, balloon bursting, parachute release proximity landing, and scale replicating, Elmer was about to engage   an way-too-early retirement from his hoppy. He would soon be faced with having to give his love for aviation up for the love of his life.  Out of respect for his ailing wife, Jimmie Lee, the pioneering modeling aviator of old was facing a dilemma. By now both Elmer and his wife had been lifelong smokers and by the time they reached their mid 40’s such a nasty habit was having an ill effect on his partner. His wife Jimmie was having trouble breathing, and the powerful fumes emulating from the dope used to cover /seal up the wings on his aircraft were not making things better.  In order to help his mate breath better Elmer was forced to abruptly stop his practice of covering his aircraft with doped one substances in his makeshift basement model building shop. This respect for quality of life over for others, rather than just himself, led to his final retirement by the closes-out of the 20^th century.

The 1990’s

After the death of his first wife jimmie Lee, and the full “empty nesting” act of his five children by the 90’s, Elmer continued to encourage African Americans men to get involve with either the AMA, the aircraft modeling hobby, aviation, airlines or even the aerospace science field of spacelines. In fact, it was my Dads early mastery of aviation modeling  that encouraged me to establish not only the first long running African American owned, FAA certified airline, called Blue Ridge, but the creation of the world’s first third wave (space-star-line) called Blue Ridge Nebula. It was not easy accomplishing such a historical feat, as I meet with all sorts of resistances, failures, and shortcomings along the way. However  since the motto in this family is that “we fall down and get right back up”  I decided to do something positive about it such negative encounters and keep going at it all. Thankfully, due to my inherent intellect and intuitive technological ingenuity, as derived from my ancestors, who always found a way of stepping-up, and taking charge as leader. So just like the way they seemed to have established their own safe passages through  it all,  I too have prevailed over bigotry , injustices and racism. For example, thanks to my Dad, my Blue Ridge Nebula Starline is the only transportation organization that uses FAA-AST registered flying saucer shaped craft. Such craft  have the capability to produced not only artificial, but antigravity forces while being propelled by historical first, “reactionless drive” motors at near light speeds. Furthermore my Dad’s go-for-it all role-modeling tendencies also helped me to become one of the youngest and most published aviation/aerospace business authors in the world.

Unraveling Elmer Jr. unethically re-written recent-history

After marring his second wife Beverl, Elmer became busy over the recent years ushering in new lines of safety measure thinking. Innovative safety measures such as the use of strap-on wrist holders for control-line operations, expanded helmet utilization protocols for supporting pit members, affordable insurance policies, and even the refining of “right to fly” ordinances across America.

While all this is good news, it’s unfortunate that as more and more time passes by, many great black American that have achieved so much for so long, are either hidden from view, or have their success records rewritten in favor of lesser men’s almost non-existing accomplishments. 

At time it seems as though such unethical practices are actually a right-of-passage service perform along the way toward being immortalize into the who’s who’s of America’s legendary  membership.

Unfortunately such an act has taking place in my family for over two centuries’, its ranges from  James Beckwourth fame and glory being ripped off as far back as the late 18^th century and runs down to my own record as being the world’s first FAA certified spaceline being either minimized or dispelled during the early 21^st century. Dad is no exception and has felt the same since many wannabees have tried to either steal, kill, or destroy the truth about his aeronautical accomplishments. For example, recently Colorado bases residences of cities such as Lakewood and Aurora are attempting to fake it all for their own self-glory as displayed during their model aircraft by-centennial celebration.  Many members of the local Colorado based “Jefco Model Airplane Flying Club” which my day started, are seeking to celebrate its half a century old existence without him. Unfortunately, they are trying to commemorate such an amazing accomplishment without acknowledging its original founder. Jefco Model Airplane Flying Club wants to count the decade but refuses to accept Mr. Haynes first ten years of founding leadership. As horrific as this must sound, such an act of racial ostracism is not the first incidents of trying to minimize and or steer Elmer jr. hard earned accomplishments. As far back as the early 40’s, members of the founding Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA),  miss characterized Elmer into being just another white man of the group. This miss- identification of his race, was done for almost a half of century as the AMA promoting him as being white. No one there knew /offered to get it right by offering to display him as a famous founding black model airplane builder. But since we all fall down and get right back up, as God would have it, and thanks to our brother Elmer III’s fact finding hard work, the truth finally came out in 2018. Once Mr. Haynes membership number 525 was validated by the AMA, it became obvious that since 1942 he had been one of their early sanctioned founding members all along.  Academy of Model Aeronautics finally reversed their miss-guided line of thinking and acted to enshrined Elmer jr in their 5161 E. Memorial Dr. Muncie,  Indiana museum the next few years.

Reflection

While looking back on almost a century of aircraft modeling, as associations with the Academy of Model Aeronautics, one soon realizes that the almost 100 years old, 10 inches shorten, bent over, gray haired man, with the slow, slue-footed walk up and down the driveway, and wide cheerful smile found a way to forge a path through it all. Not only did this old man find a “way to lead the way” in the past, but he also found a “way to point the way” toward our future as well. While nurturing, and or, raising his family over the years’ grand-papa Elmer jr. has come to believe that if all people, and or organizations around the earth would seek to utilize full membership encompassing practice they would do much better in the end. He believes that if such organizations would seek this all-encompassing posture sooner than later, such groups will have an opportunity to maximize their longevity. This more prudent ideology of full inclusions on a more equitable bases, instead of advancement via the good-o-boy concepts only,  has help him raise a successful army of African American aviators.

 It is these humble African American aviators and other good-natured people of the world whose aeronautical triumphs touch all facets of the aviation industry. They range from model gliders to the actual building and operation of full size, disk shaped, passenger and cargo spaceships, that possess the ability to safely take mankind safely to the stars. All this goodness, and blessings being offer by black America has been inspired by the old man of the air, and longest living member our clan, “Elmer Dewitt Jr”.   

We did it, instead of honoring great people of the world long after their deaths, as is the case of  many of my famous family members like James Beckwourth, or Elmer Sir. We have ceased on the opportuning to raise a living legend while he lived until July 29th, 2021, in living color.  Once Elmer jr sanded his way into to the aeronautical history books, but now life has forged him into being a legend of all times. As I stated earlier, when I’m old and gray I want to look back on life, like my Dad did, and be reminded that I never settled along the way.  Elmer Dewitt jr raised us all to believe that the motto in this family is that “we fall down and get right back up” and despite it all, in the end, both an upbeat perspective and positive energy will always win out. As my Dad takes his rightfully place among the founding members and historical stars of the Academy of Model Aeronautics museum these days, we say thanks, rest in peace,  and God speed to us all, for finally getting this one right before his death.

Like most of us, Elmer jr. sometimes can be heard mumbling, like his father, about broken dreams and shattered hopes of life wishes and hops gone bad, but in retrospect we all just do not see it that way.  What a wonderful dream, what a long and successful story, what a fantastic legacy.  If only we all could be so lucky and blessed to have live such a fair, good natured, and long-winded life as his.

While other have failed or giving up over the century’s it is not enough to just say thank you to many of my successful  American ancestors like James Beckwourth for helping California become California or Elmer Sr, for saving the American troops from other destruction. We must finally stop and thank Elmer jr. for being Elmer jr. and pointing the way from aircraft modeling to safely star-trekking across the relative confined of the new spaces above forever and ever.