Club Members Models - Chris Hughes
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The model was originally built about 25 years ago as -EBWD which lives at Old Warden.  It was scratch built to 1/5 (72") to my own plans taken from drawings of the full size and numerous photos taken at O.W.it was about as detailed as I could practically make it and had true scale folding wings which are great for quick rigging on the field.

 

 

 

 

 

 

After about 15 years it was getting a bit tatty and the wings required rebuilding, so I decided to turn it into the very first prototype -EBKT which isn't often modeled and had see-thro wing and tail making it look more like a model than most A/C.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The 'quick refurb' took 9 years doing a bit here and a bit there and was finally finished in late spring this year !

The 54"'Firefly' is scaled up 1.5 from the plan supplied with the 1960s Frog kit.

The D.H.Puss Moth is 80" span 80 powered (very low wing loading)

The Hurricane is 68" span, 90FS powered and the scheme is authentic for an early development a/c (my old eyes can't cope with camouflage!) They had bare metal panels and yellow chromate on the fabric.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Racing Sea Fury 'Miss Merced' is 66" span and has yet to fly this year having been re-engined from 80 to 90 to hopefully give more power.

The Denny 'Kitfox' is 72" span and has the authentic 'Junkers-type' flaperons which work quite well.  It is based on makers drgs and an a/c seen at a P.F.A.rally.

The 50" 'Aerobat' is 1.2X the original 1960s control-liner and is an attempt to produce something vintage with a bit more 'omph' than your average cabin floater!

The same goes for the E.D.F.Venom which is a direct crib structure-wise from the 1958 K.K.kit for jetex -but a hell of a lot faster !

 

 

 

 

 

K.K.'Ladybird'

 This was a repro kit I spotted a few years ago and bought in a fit of nostalgia as it was the second powered model I built at the age of about 10!

It was originally powered by a noisy,messy vintage diesel as per the original, but was a pig to fly with no throttle (hence its patched appearence !)

So this year I electrified it and it is much better- hopefully it will return next year recovered and with its rather neat radial cowl back on.

Last modified: September 20, 2011