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Just some Past and present Scale & semi scale models constructed by me, some seen at the Bmfa Nationals

               
 My first  near scale own design The AVRO 707....
 These first Photo's are of some of my early  scale builds & non scale.... Avro 707 built around  Peter Millers 362  Delta wing  Circa 1974 At RNAS  Ford 

 And below on West beach Littlehampton  Brian Wrights  362 is in black behind Dick Cobden , Myself & a very young Paul  Brewer..     

                                                                                  
 My very first Spitfire 63 inch span  built from a Mick reeves kit Super Tigre 61 photo circa early 70s
on west beach Littlehampton ..


 Above a pasadena special  from a Plan by Paul Newell 40 size Pylon racer ...
 Early show line  at Nat's Barkston Heath  1980s

 This photo taken at Dave Bishops Plumpton model show   Circa  late'70s  Photo by Brian Schubert.. 

This T28 Trojan my first entry in clubmans scale At the BMFA nationals Built from the Pica  Kit  Enya 120r four stroke..
  
photo's by Bob Fletcher



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 to the left David Knott & M/ R spitfire  1st place,   My  MidWest Harvard  Supertigre  25 was the power plant  best place 4th Clubman class


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Spitfires  my first  FU-P TB863 Clubman 2nd place & then  F4c entry ..... GZ -? was  Clubman &   3rd place flying only..These are Mick Reeves 1/6th  Scale   semi Kits
 

 Hawker Hurricane From Mick Reeves kit  (modified)  Enya 120f/s   circa 2007/8 ..
photo's Bob Fletcher 
                                        This is how the above hurricane looked  before  rebuild
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 Hurricane UPW  R4118 Built from Dave Knotts  Sketched Drawings  At 1/6th scale.
  I won  with this model  the  2018 BMFA Nationals F4h competition  held at Barkston heath 

                                     
                                                                                                cooling fan used on my Hurricane made by                                                                                                    John Pace to fit the Laser 150 engine ..




       Dakota at  Brean sands  Above.. my Dakota twin super Tigre 90s  when I flew with the Arnhem model flight  team  founded in 1992   from left-right Les Eagle, Colin Hammond, Dave Knott , Standing Frank Hargrave  (no1 Para  at Arnhem was  our leader), Pete Fullard, Mick Galvin & Keith Wright.     pic North Weald  Wings & wheels model show   
 


                                   

 The ESM  T28  was my first artf  purchased  from YT international. at the nat's 2010, this model is powered by a Laser 200v   I flew it in the flying  Nat's only competition in 2011& placed 2nd. Top r/h photo shows the windsock normal windy Barkstone bank holiday conditions  .. 

 Below.. Black Horse models Westland Wyvern  One being modified to stand off scale Both these models have put me on the podium  in area & national competitions,  powered by Laser 300V's 20x10 propellors ..





  The modified artf B/H model Westland Wyvern  2017 above..
My current competition models  std & reworked Westland Wyverns  both have placed  2x2nd  & 3rd
at Bmfa Nationals & 378 got a gold at a area comp 2017.. final photo myself & Dave Knott after the best flight  (highest flight score of the class ) stand off scale  3rd  2015...both photo's Bob fletcher..    

 

     

 compare size of spinners   making the white  one for the  above model below left hand carved blades left & right hand







           





                            Below my  20 cc Black Horse  smaller version of the Wyvern mk 2 guise
                                                                       Rcv sp 120 engine                         

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