European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 18, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tom White puts the finishing touches on vessel of his Model nautical airman by Robert staff writer a fellow kit seasick just talking to Tom Hes a natural Horn Sailor who wound up in the air Force by default seven years go and he has been pining for the briny Over a Square pm in round reluctant landlubber White is currently working As a Carpenter in the base shop it West not n White Cap within he jets off steam by building White builds boats the Way most people build castles in the air he builds pm on ills lunch he builds pm after work night and he builds pm on and on top of he has a Hobby build ing Model the 34yearold who Homes from a sold his troubles first started when he tried to join the Navy Back in measuring 5foot 1lnch it the he was turned Down is being Inch too he thereupon joined i he air White has grown in stature since Don Fie air Force blues it 17 and he now 5foot 3inches and weighs 130 15 More than he did seven years at the rate Hes he figures hell be a cinch for the Navy at the end his present hitch i he continues to follow a life sea vicariously by building a Trade he Learned during his boyhood on Narragansett the airman says he has no idea How Many boats he has mince he has been building them All his White flouts he admits to having built Many a boat in the but has never yet had to tear Down a House to got one As to building boats in lie just int the landlocked airman currently owns a 15foot Cabin Cruiser which he built along with s Surls vie Dibrito and Al Thayer at West Drayton and he has three hydroplane in where he was last stationed he built seven spid White is serving his second tour in having been assigned to soul Thorpe air base from 1952 to he is a member of the London Motorboat racing and races on the average of three times a he took four prizes in major British hydroplane races last driving n three Point hydroplane propelled by a High powered Anzini in one he participated in two races Miles apart in Suffolk and in the first the Mcmillan at he finished second and at Oulton broads in Suffolk he wus placed eighth in the Handicap and sixth in the class group trophy White says he can build a Oneman Hull for n hydroplane in 35 hours that will be capable of skimming along at 55 he Hopes someday hell build boats that will do 150 in White married his British sweetheart and the couple now have n 5 Mon Hod his the airman shares none of his enthusiasm for the sea or the ships that sail upon last year in i built a Hydro plane in a practically working night and he my wife was hopping mad she says Shes a boat and fishing she Doest even like my Shes Atrul Coly a the airman has won several prizes participating in British hydroplane 12 the stars and stripes