PRINCE OF DRONES: THE REGINALD DENNY STORY (paperback)

ISBN  9781629334882 “HOW FAMILIAR ARE YOU with the name Reginald Denny? In most cases, it correlates with the generation in which you grew up. For me, he was King Boris and Commodore Schmidlapp in the 1960s Batman, first on television and then the latter from the movie. Syndication introduced me to a man who helped further our hobby and took his final flight before I had even landed, but I wouldn’t have known that then. Reginald appeared in more than 200 films, was an accomplished stage actor, and became a regular TV actor later in his career. However, if he had only been an accomplished actor, you wouldn’t be reading about him in a model aircraft publication. You see, he was also the “prince of drones.” It’s time that Reginald’s story was told, and who better to share the story of a World War I aviator, actor, and hobbyist who had the foresight to believe that model airplanes could be of benefit to the military than his own granddaughter, Kimberly Pucci, who put that knowledge into a