After 14 years in the works, Dick Edgington's dream plane could soon be flying
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George and Shirly Wermling, of Great Falls, are pictured working on the RagWing 4 plane they are completing. The Wermlings bought the plane that was first started by Dick Edgington, of Chinook, in 2004. Edgington's eyesight began to falter after he had worked on the project for about ten years. The Wermlings hope to have the plane flying in six months.
Reporter's note: Dick Edgington, a longtime resident of Chinook, died in the summer of 2016. In 2004, after retiring from the Blaine County Road Department, Edgington bought a set of plans to build a RagWing 4 single engine plane. It was not a kit, he had to locate and buy all the parts and supplies necessary to complete the plane. The plans were based on a popular plane sold as a kit and first available in 1928.
I'd heard about the incomplete plane from several people and had asked Dick's son, Danny Lee, if he would talk to me for a story about his dad's plane. Later that summer Danny Lee tol...
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