Looking through a '48 Air Trails

Just thumbing through the Oct 48 issue of Air Trails...

1. In the "Stetch Book" section (readers got $2 for a good idea) "Jim" shows how to make leadouts adjustable for "changing sensitivity" of "control-line" (complete with hyphen) models. There's nothing new under the sun...

2. Question: There is a Megow ad for their kits. I am familiar with them, having sold their stick and tissue models on ebay. However, the ad shows a "Flying Circus", which looks exactly like the PDQ Flying Clown. Even the span is the same (28"). Did Megow sell some of their kits to an emerging PDQ company? Megow was out of Philly, and PDQ was in Delaware, if memory serves, so they weren't far physically removed.

3. A few Sterling Scale kits already were in production, like the Moncocoupe and Howard Pete.

The Flying Circus was a good flying ship. I had one with a front rotor Ohlsson 23 in it. It had no wheels, used a simple dolly for departure from the earth. I'm surprised that this is the first reference I have seen to this model what with all the OTS activity there is. I have a photo of it somewhere in my archives. I'm going to guess it was around 1948 or 49.

Dan: We might as well call it a Flying Clown. It looks to be identical.

What fooled me here was the fact that its provenance was with Megow, mainly a Stick and Tissue house, under a different (but PDQ-ish) sounding name.

Would anyone know if the other PDQ that we are so familiar with...Super Clown, Circus King, Circus Prince, etc, also started with Megow? Probably not...

Matt Kania started at Sterling, and went to PDQ? Or the opposite?