"Winter Draws On" is a small handbook about safety procedures for flying in cold weather and uses a Disney modified Gremlin called the "Spandule" as the main character. [from Van Eaton Galleries'
"Collecting Disney 2016" auction catalog]
In this book for the first time is pictured a close relative of the Gremlin, the ‘Spandule’. These little fellows inhabit the air space above 30,000 feet except in the winter time, when they come down to lower altitudes and have been known to play around on the ground. Although not mean at heart, these little guys are forced by their very nature to do a lot of things to get a pilot in trouble. Whenever an airplane enters their domain they pounce aboard. They like to test a guy out. If he is on his toes they probably won’t bother him much, but if he looks sound asleep or a little thick between the ears they are almost sure to plaster his wings with ice, load down his propeller, and do all sorts of tricks that can be real serious. If you know where to look for Spandules and if you keep a close watch for the first evidence of their handiwork, you can usually avoid a run-in with them. This book will help you do that. The life-like pictures of Spandules which appear in this book were created by Walt Disney at the invitation of the Flight Control Command.
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article by Jim Korkis for more details on this booklet.
