#model aircraft

[redrcs]

Toys for the boys and girls

[bigglesworld]

Amatuer model flyers. Central Park, NYC. September 11, 1927

[hellfiremodels]

Woa

[opelman]

BGM6 - AMCC Calvisson by Laurent Quérité Via Flickr: Aéromodélisme Calvisson Gard France IMG_7181

[cluttonfred]

FRED plans and Eric Clutton’s books are available again!

Benjamin Mehalic, winner of the First Annual Eric Clutton Memorial Swap Meet & Fun Fly at the Coffee Airfoilers Radio Control Club in Tullahoma, Tennessee, smiles in a May 21, 2022 photo by Jonathan Holt.

While Eric Clutton passed away on February 6, 2022, he left instructions for his friend Jonathan Holt to continue selling his books and FRED plans to benefit the local model aircraft club Eric loved so much.  Plans and books are once again available and you can find the details at https://cluttonfred.info/plansbooks.  I’ll let Jonathan tell the rest:

We had the First Annual Eric Clutton Memorial Swap Meet & Fun Fly that weekend.  Our Club President, Don Cleveland, came up with the idea of “Buy It & Fly It”, which is buy the aircraft at the swap meet and fly it at the fun fly.  I came up with a criteria for judging which included content from the swap meet, effort it took to make it fly and doing it on the least amount on money.  Benjamin won the judging on all aspects.  It was fitting that it was won with a British fighter and a new generation of RC pilot to carry the torch.  It really is a perfect situation.

The young man is a club member that had only seen Eric in passing.  Eric was always gracious with his time and advice with young people in the hobby.  I’m guessing that may have came from his career as a school teacher.  I know you knew Eric from the full-scale aircraft world and so did I somewhat, but in the model aircraft world Eric was all about swap meets and building models from scratch.  He, like myself, took a lot of pride in being able to do that in as frugal a way as possible.  He would have really liked this event.

I agree completely that this is a fitting tribute to Eric in a way that would have made him smile.  Hats off to Jonathan and the Coffee Airfoilers!

[triplak-blog]

Hatchette 1:100 McDonnell Douglas F-4F Phantom

[mindsynthcreations]

Welcome on board!

[nocternalrandomness]

1953 Beech 18 on the water at CAM9

[krisfaeley]

I am so gosh darn happy with my silly little plane!

[thedalekstumble]

Ho-229 Commission for Sovietrainbow! Learned a lot and got to experiment with different ways of approaching a workflow to producing a model! Also a bit of post processing lol

[hellfiremodels]

Odd looking bloke innit?

[the-art-of-dieselpunk-war]

Hayao Miyazaki's Daydream Data Notes (illustrated essays he contributed to the hobby magazine 'Model Graphix' in the 80s and 90s)

[opelman]

BGM6 - AMCC Calvisson by Laurent Quérité Via Flickr: Aéromodélisme Calvisson Gard France IMG_7166

[planeyboys]

wider than he is long

Part of a limited run of stickers!! Still some left as of 07/06/23 

https://www.onehellofatown.com/product/geebee

[lonestarflight]

"A model of the Space Shuttle Orbiter attached to stiffleg derrick, Kennedy Space Center, Florida."

Date: November 2, 1976

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