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Pete's 2018 Bmfa British R/C Nationals Stand off scale entry with a 1/6th Scale HawkerHurricane 1..

  Once again I entered the  stand off  scale class  Nationals  event  held on the 25-27th August 2018      Barkstone heath Lincolnshire RAF flight training base I took two models my Westland Wyvern  &      Hawker Hurricane  powered by a Laser 150  Having had  its  re maiden   3 weeks earlier following a major rebuild ..  I arrived Friday  late afternoon and found we were to be held at a holding area  awaiting official hand over as training flights were still being flown..  meanwhile the heavens opened after the longest hot summer since '76  .. Sent a text to my wife to let her know i'd arrived safe,  just wrote "i'm here its raining it's Barkstone, "   at around 5-30 the weather improved   and the traffic too  was released ..  got to the scale tent area & erected my Home (Tent)..  after the usual what goes where  fiasco.. I was soon joined By Alex Kennedy.. CD Chris  Allen & Biggles His boxer dog  were already in place  Turned into a really ple