Sorry Tom! This was the only photo I had of you from when we went shopping for camping supplies. )))
It is amazing that when you go to AirVentrue that you have to actually look for guys who like to sit around dreaming about new replicas that nobody has ever tried to make before. But Tom was one of those guys…
Tom would always bring up that he heard other people talking about Baslie needing to build an Albatross, but he hasn’t and other people would like to try, but they never do. So Tom kept asking me to consider it. One year, I said, ok, let’s dream about it for awhile and see what we come up with.
So Tom popped the cap on his favorite liquid camping supply, and we sat down for a long discussion.
–Joseph Labert