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build and help others build model airplanes. His first work was instructing
classes in model airplane design at Y. M. C. A. meetings, Boy Scout camps,
and at various schools all over Indiana. He next wrote a series of articles on
model airplanes for Popular Aviation, Popular Science Monthly, and other
publications of this type. It wasn’t long before the students in all these classes
and the readers of his articles wanted materials to make their own models. So
his next step was to make these materials which were so much in demand.

In his model airplane shop, Peru, Indiana, he began to manufacture not only a
midget motor and a 6½ ounce gasoline motor, but also the familiar rubber-
band twisters and other parts and accessories for fans who build their own
models. He later supplied the featherweight wood called balsa, which is used
for airplane models, Japanese silk tissue, special cements, and fresh rubber to
power the planes. He also manufactured a low-priced scale used to weigh
parts for the models down to 1/1000 of an ounce, and a miniature true pitch
propeller. Thousands of these little propellers were turned out for other
miniature aircraft companies. His shop also designed model kits and made
ready-built planes for other concerns. In the last few years, the shop has sold
many hundreds of thousands of planes in the fiveand-ten stores.

Regular orders kept this shop busy the year round, but during certain rush
periods the shop ran night and day. During the three or four major national
contests held each year, there was a gratifying increase in orders. Bert Pond’s
success with his hobby suggests the value of developing an interesting hobby
which some day may provide your bread and butter— and perhaps a little
jam.

Another hobby which later became a real vocation was that of H. E. Boucher.
As a little boy, Mr. Boucher frequently made little boats which were the envy
of his playmates. His parents had planned his entire education to the end that
he would some day become a naval architect. He did reach this goal but his
hobby persisted in taking all his spare time and soon he found that he was
making many miniature ships for his friends. The demand increased and
presently his “real” work was being crowded out of his life by his hobby. It
was then that he decided to stop fighting against his interest in this hobby and
he organized the H. E. Boucher Manufacturing Company. The market for his