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Venture60
Flyin'King
DeltaVortex
R/C Trailers
Arkansas Foosball

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Stephen Prinz Cohen, m.s., m.b.a.
Steve has but a few interests - playing golf and studying the golf swing, playing his trumpet (a rare gold-plated Burbank Benge model 5x, made about 1968, serial number 81xx, made in the factory's final year in the Burbank factory; a Burbank Benge C, model 3x, silver plate, serial 74xx, one of the first made after Zig Kanstul joined Benge; a Benge D/Eb, serial number 65xx; and a Stomvi Piccolo circa 1990), growing and studying orchids, and building and flying remote control model airplanes. He worked for Acxiom Corp. located in central Arkansas, until the June, 2001 layoff. In January, 2004, he joined the Arkansas Supreme Court's Administrative Office of the Courts working on the Arkansas Court Automation Project.

A few photos of Doc Severinsen's Trumpet, Cornet, Flugelhorn, and Piccolo Trumpet taken during the dress rehearsal for "Night of a Thousand Trumpets", Hattiesburg, MS in October, 2001. Here is another of Doc just after having played the Hayden Trumpet Concerto September, 2002 in Little Rock, AR.

Jeffrey Oscar Cohen, m.d.
Jeff's interests include playing golf, flying radio controlled airplanes, playing his guitar and banjo, singing, and baking Gingerbread Houses for Christmas. He gets precious little time to enjoy his hobbies, since Pulmonary Medicine is his professional calling (and his beeper goes off all the time!).

Much of Steve's and Jeff's flying exploits will be shown on these pages. But, for now, a good starting place can be viewed on the web sites Steve is developing about Bruce Tharpe Airplanes.

www.Venture60.com
www.DeltaVortex.com
www.FlyinKing.com

Other web sites being developed include:

Conway, Arkansas R/C Association
Trailers used to haul R/C Airplanes

Steve and Jeff both love to fly radio controlled airplanes. Although Steve is the older of the two, Jeff is the one who first took up the hobby. He has taught his older son, Patrick, to fly and is currently teaching his younger son, Jeremy.

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Patrick is shown at the recent Piggott, Arkansas Fly-In in
the blue coat and red toboggan holding the radar gun.
Fifteen then and 21 now, he's still not yet realized that he'll be the target of these devices!

Jeff's exploits with his airplanes became too much for Steve to bear. He and Jeff frequently flew together, Jeff patiently teaching Steve to fly. They enjoyed a few successful flights and one glorious crash (Jeff had stepped away from Steve at an unfortunate moment).

Just recently, Jeff and Steve flew together again, this time aided with a buddy cord. The story is too long to recount here, but the two have wanted to fly together for over 30 years. Things just kept getting in the way.

Years ago, Steve had actually started but not completed two airplanes. The first, in about 1969 when Jeff was in about nine years old, was a Falcon 56. He framed it but never finished it.

When Steve began his college days at Mississippi State University, Jeff assumed control of the Falcon 56. This is the airplane on which Jeff learned to fly. He discovered a neighbor, Mr. Moore, who was an R/C enthusiast in Whitehaven, TN. Mr. Moore took Jeff 'under his wing', teaching him to fly, to repair, to build, safety concerns, and all those things a young lad soaks up from the wise old man. Jeff still speaks fondly of Mr. Moore.

Steve's second plane was, again, framed but not finished. This one, a Christen Eagle by Pilot, was put aside when his wife-to-be announced in 1983 "I'm not coming over here to watch you build that plane!"

In 1998, when Steve's son, Bobby, saw how much his dad, Uncle Jeff, and Cousin Patrick were having teaching Steve to fly, he asked if there was any way he could join the fun. So, with permission from his now ex-wife to resurrect that long-lost love for the Christen Eagle, Steve saw an opening to get back into into the hobby.

Of course, the Christen Eagle is not a trainer plane. A Great Planes Perfect Trainer 60 was the first to be constructed and flown. Shortly thereafter there was a Big Stick, a Venture 60, a P-47, and a Flyin'King soon to be found hanging on the wall, and a trailer in the driveway in which to haul them all.