Dumfries Model Flying Club celebrate more than 100 years of aviation history
dailyrecord.co.ukDumfries Model Flying Club celebrated more than 100 years of aviation history with a special Scale Day event at Mabie last weekend.
Scale models of full-sized military aircraft spanning both World Wars and the Korean War were shown and flown, along with various civilian types.
The range of models included some which were scratch-built from plans, the result of many hours of skilled workmanship. But not all model flyers possess such skills, so some models are purchased as almost-ready-to-fly kits, requiring just an hour or so of assembly out of the box.
In each case the main issue is the degree of scale accuracy – not only in the static representation of the real aircraft, but also in the way they are flown, and some models are easier to fly than others.
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