Model Builders Get Together - The air at Gardner ball park was sliced last Sunday by a speeding model airplane controlled by wires that led to the hands of 29-year-old Richard Augsburger, sitting in a wheel chair turned for him by a friend, John Temmons. When, at the age of eight, Augsburger first started building his model airplanes, he wanted to be a pilot. "I've always loved airplanes. I've loved aviation,” he says now. "If I hadn't been hurt, I would have been a commercial pilot or owned a plane. Now this is the closet I can get to aviation." Riding on a motorcycle June 24, 1946, Augsburger was struck by an automobile and paralyzed by his injuries. And now he joins with a group of about 25 Middletown model plane flyers to send his crafts into the air...

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