A final note: He later fitted a 175 Menasco inline. Since it was still winter in Minnesota he installed skis for the test flight. The test flight was unsuccessful with the tiny aircraft tumbling out of control, cartwheeling off the side of the runway. Shortly after all of this melee, young Ron sighted his dad waving at everyone in the vicinity of the wreck. Ned was a little banged up, but thankful that one of skis missed him by me are inches, passing through the fuselage aft of his bum. N17E was no more. Ron posed a photo years later getting into his Acroduster similar to his dad's, both photos hang in his office today. The Acroduster still flys today at 43 years since it first took flight; but that's another story
