Da Big Guy
Welcome to the virtual home of Garrison Aerodrome R/C Models on intrawebs.
Garrison Aerodrome is the hobby business persona of Darwin Garrison. Originally founded in 1996 as a means of marketing Pat Mattes’ original Push-E Cat EPP electric powered sailplane design, it soon because home to not only a couple of Pat’s ideas (the Push-E Cat and the Positron), but also to Darwin’s own original designs, the Manx and Hot Cat performance Speed 400 models.
Since then, time and challenges have ebbed and flowed. At one point, the Push-E Cat was farmed out to Denny Maize at Polecat Aero while Darwin tried to deal with day job layoff and moving between states. When Denny dropped out, Darwin went back in and tried to update the Push-E Cat but, again, day job realities prevented completion of the exercise.
Over the years, occasional attempts have been made to get back in the saddle. The problem, however, was that times and technology moved on and the designs needed updated to align with currently available tech. And the day job. Always the wildly varying day job.
In any case, with the addition of more advanced manufacturing support (CNC router, CNC laser, and 3D printers), it has become more feasible to actually have time to make kits again. So, this location will be where we share the status of our efforts and provide the means for customers to acquire our products.
As a touch-base with our origins, I have uploaded the original Garrison Aerodrome site here. Please be aware that the links are highly suspect at best, but you are welcome to browse around and see where we came from.
The blog area will not only have news and updates on the kits we are developing, but will also feature reports on normal modeling efforts and repairs of general interest (at least, to Darwin.)
Again, welcome. Thanks for visiting. We look forward to sharing our progress with you.