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A Tribute to Mike Olson

a True Life-Long Modeler celebrated Daughter follows in father's aeromodeling footsteps. By Aimee (Olson) Bagley and Linda Kegal. Mike Olson of Fargo, North Dakota, recently passed away from a 9 1/2 month battle with Pancreatic cancer. He will be greatly missed as one of the control line modeling pioneers in our community. As one of the charter members of the F-M Skylarks Model Airplane Club in the early 1950's, he saw the model airplane hobby go from homemade stick and tissue models to jet-propelled speed planes to massive quarter, third, half-scale radio-controlled models and beyond…

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