Biggles downunder
10-24-2012, 21:16
Well, I guess it's about time that I fronted up to the Adjutant and declared my presence - been too busy taking in the sights and sounds of gay Paree ;)
I have been a fan of WOW since picking up the boxed game from the local games shop (Tea Tree Plaza for the locals).
I have always been interested in things with wings having grown up with a father who was an avid aero-modeller. He is actually in the record books as the first person to fly a radio controlled model aeroplane in South Australia. He was also part of the small team that built the model of the Vickers Vimy that hangs in the display case alongside the real thing at Adelaide airport.
I can (just) remember his win in a national event in 1955 with a free-flight scale Bristol Scout - maybe that explains things!
I can also just remember the occasion he took me to the unveiling of the Ross & Keith Smith memorial where I heard Wally Shiers talk about some of their shared adventures and the fact that they referred to the registration code, G-EAOU, as standing for God 'Elp All Of Us - what I would give to have had a recording device!!
I grew up via the inevitable Airfix route but never got involved in flying models then the early years of marriage and children saw modelling take a back seat.
Modelling has sort of returned, though my wife thinks I am insulating the house with unbuilt kits! My love affair with wings continues as I expand my miniatures collection with a recent foray into the world of Shapeways.
Unfortunately I seem to have little time to actually 'fly' them, but I am a keen follower of the forum.
~Wayne
I have been a fan of WOW since picking up the boxed game from the local games shop (Tea Tree Plaza for the locals).
I have always been interested in things with wings having grown up with a father who was an avid aero-modeller. He is actually in the record books as the first person to fly a radio controlled model aeroplane in South Australia. He was also part of the small team that built the model of the Vickers Vimy that hangs in the display case alongside the real thing at Adelaide airport.
I can (just) remember his win in a national event in 1955 with a free-flight scale Bristol Scout - maybe that explains things!
I can also just remember the occasion he took me to the unveiling of the Ross & Keith Smith memorial where I heard Wally Shiers talk about some of their shared adventures and the fact that they referred to the registration code, G-EAOU, as standing for God 'Elp All Of Us - what I would give to have had a recording device!!
I grew up via the inevitable Airfix route but never got involved in flying models then the early years of marriage and children saw modelling take a back seat.
Modelling has sort of returned, though my wife thinks I am insulating the house with unbuilt kits! My love affair with wings continues as I expand my miniatures collection with a recent foray into the world of Shapeways.
Unfortunately I seem to have little time to actually 'fly' them, but I am a keen follower of the forum.
~Wayne