photo gallery

THIS is the page for aero-model pictures - your own, or others you've seen at the club or at a show; they are all welcome if they're nice to look at!

If you're not into digital photography or scanning pictures, why not send some photos by regular mail? It's not too pricey; a batch of five or six photos costs $1.00 airmail postage from the USA, for example. My address is on home page.

All the pictures on this page are thumbnails - click on the picture for an enlarged view

Richard Blindheim's Cub
	We met Richard, from Oslo, Norway, on the 'personal profiles' page of the last issue. Here he is, with 14-year-old son Petter, and the Hangar 9 J3Cub which he listed amongst his fleet of models. It has 2·04 meter wingspan and is fitted with an OS52 Surpass engine. I particularly like the in-flight shot - they're not too easy to obtain! Petter is the family 'test pilot' being more daring and 3-D capable than his more careful father, Richard tells me!

This is Tony Saunders' latest 'plane - the F4U Corsair, a recent addition to the Ripmax Warbird ARTF collection. Tony flies with Test Valley MFC.

The model has a 57" wingspan and comes with pre-painted moulded glass-fibre fuselage, pre-covered built-up wing and tail surfaces, and really does look superb.

Geoff Graham has been busy on the Sandhays Scale Gliding Association website
and has added some new photo collections. There's a general gallery of members' models called 'Atmosphere', whilst 'Picture Post' carries pictures of recent visitors to the field and their models.

On the right, top to bottom, we have Gordon's lovely Chipmunk tug, a Cirius Condor glider and Brian's Privat.

Good news, too, that Sandhays membership is growing nicely.

See more at
http://www.scaleglidingnlincs.org

Competition success for Tom Watson from Sydney, Australia

Tom went to a great scale rally last Sunday, 14th October at the Sydney Radio Control Society field near Vineyards, just west of Sydney. There were about 30 entrants with classes for Normal and Mammoth Scale, both Expert and Sportsman.

Congratulations are due to Tom who got third place in Sportsman Mammoth with his beautiful 1/4 scale Tiger Moth, pictured left. The pilot in Tom's model (right) is from Pete's Pilots in the UK - famous for his realistic little figures.

The event was not a 'Contest' as such, but there were judges who looked for the most realistic flying and static judges who walked round and picked the 'best models'.

The weather was apparently fine but very windy, although luckily the wind was blowing right down the strip, so it was manageable. Tom's Moth handled the wind well and he was able to put in three good flights.

Scale rallies are very popular in Tom's part of the world, as they give average flyers a chance to mix with the experts and not be under any pressure to do a scale pattern. They are supported by local hobby shops who give out prizes - Tom won himself a $20 voucher from one of the local shops.

At Tom's request, the organizers kindly got most of the flyers together for a group photo session after flying had finished, and below you can see the lads all lined up with some very nice models indeed. You will need to scroll the large view of these giant thumbnail images as the figures would have been extremely small indeed if I had reduced the original picture to normal screen width!

It would be great to see more of these lovely models, so if any of you guys pictured above are reading this, how about sending a nice close-up or two together with some details of your model for the rest of us to see - please?

Amongst the model-makers and models pictured above is Ross Woodcock and his Ansaldo. Tom tells me that Ross has won many scale contests with this machine which is almost too good to believe. "This bloke is a master modeller", says Tom. Ross worked for Qantas for many years and he has built lots of the models to be seen in Australian airports, including a Fokker Trimotor (as used by Kingsford Smith) that is hanging in the International Terminal at Sydney. Funny thing, I do recall drooling over a beautiful model at Sydney airport, although I was on an internal flight to Cairns, so I'm wondering if it was one of Ross's.

Tore Loodin sent these pictures from a recent slope-soaring meeting

The meeting took place on 6th October at the Träkvista gravel pit at Ekerö, eight miles west of Stockholm, Sweden. There was little wind about, so except for those with light chuck-gliders and electric gliders, a lot of the lads had to descend into the pit to retrieve their sunken planes!

Three recent appearances at Test Valley MFC, UK
	Left, Neil Scratchley has put the finishing touches to his Contact 140 that first appeared on #41 (right). Apologies to Neil for suggesting we should not hold our breath waiting for him to finish it!
	Left, Colin Grace's Xtreme Lite with a very popular pilot.	Right, Michael Brown's very nice Raptor 30

Derick Veliz has been up with his Wingo camera ship, and sends these unusual air-to-air shots taken at the Northeast Electric Aircraft Technology Fair.

There's more of Derick's photography on hotchpotch and a glimpse at his latest project on work in progress.

	Here is Leon Janeke from Pretoria, South Africa, and his 1:7 scale Harvard Texan AT-6 turned out in SAF colours. Leon is introduced on personal profiles.

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