Dave Wigley’s scratchbuilt Beaufighter (facing page) takes off for another amazing, scale-like flight. This is its first year on the contest circuit. Dave, “Mr. Top Gun” (above left), props up his 85-pound Beaufighter. Bombers such as this B-25 (above right) are a popular modeling subject and are plentiful at Top
Gun. Mac Hodge’s 21-foot wingspan B-29 and X-1 (below left) were back and put on a great show as always. Curtis Switzer brought his Curtiss B-2 Condor (below right) back for a fourth year. His model has won both the Pro-Am in 2010 and the Pro-Am Pro in 2011.
Kyle Goodwine’s B-17 Flying Fortress (above left) is sitting with all four engines running, awaiting its next mission. Kyle’s B-17 model (above right) has
FLYING MODELS
been around for quite sometime and was refinished. He kept the four glow engines which performed flawlessly during the event.
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