scale Dr.I (above left) recreates the 1967 Cole Palen replica at Old Rhinebeck. After 1500 hours of meticulous work, Mike Gross’s 941 Dr.I (above right) was complete and won Best of Show. An AXI motor hides


Gerry Yarrish’s 1 ⁄3 ⁄2 -inch


underneath the scale LeRhone rotary dummy engine in Gene Oshrin’s 63-inch scratchbuilt DH.2 (below left). Just as the real plane, the wings on Mike Plot’s 112-inch Hawker Cygnet(below right) fold back. An O.S. Gemini 160 powers it.


Scott Spinoso hand painted the Solartex covering on his 105-inch Nieuport 28C- 1 (at left, above) with latex. FMalumnus Chris Susicke installed a Himax contra- rotating power system in his 88-inch Wyvern (above). Aleksey Lomov recovered his Top Flite 88-inch P-51 (below) and installed a DLE-55 engine There’s a 3W-85 engine in the nose of Scott Spinoso’s Comp ARF P-51 (at left, below).


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