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Road to Top Gun: Hawker Seafury

Road to Top Gun: Hawker Seafury

This year Bill Freeland (Owner) and Greg Foushi (Pilot) are dedicating their Top Gun 2019 Pro-Prop entry to honor Walt Carnes (its builder), who passed away last year. (Flight shot by Carl Layden) Walt was a great modeler, Top Gun Competitor but most of all a great guy!  Walt’s passion was model airplanes and once […]
Road to Top Gun: Cessna L-19 Bird Dog

Road to Top Gun: Cessna L-19 Bird Dog

Our good buddy and Team Hitec pilot, Roger Niolet, of Sarasota, FL. will be competing in the Pro-Am Sport with his 1/4-Scale Cessna L-19 Bird Dog. Built from Vailly Aviation plans Roger will be flying it with a Hitec Aurora 9X Transmitter and a Hitec Optima 9 receiver. The Bird Dog is powered with a […]
Road to Top Gun: Hawker Siddeley Gnat

Road to Top Gun: Hawker Siddeley Gnat

Traveling all the way from the Island of Malta (Republic of Malta), Brian Busuttil will be competing this year at Top Gun with his Hawker Siddeley Gnat T.1. The Gnat is going to be a Team entry, and was built by Keith Woods from Scale Composites in the UK. The Gnat is a 1:3.5 scale, […]
The Cold Blue!

The Cold Blue!

A tribute to the men who won the ultimate victory 75 years ago, this movie will be showing in select theaters May 23rd and will be available on demand on HBO June 7th. Featuring extraordinary, never before seen color footage shot by one of the world’s greatest directors, William Wyler, you’ll feel as though you’re 30,000 feet over Nazi Germany, […]
Road to Top Gun: Pietenpol Aircamper

Road to Top Gun: Pietenpol Aircamper

From Sylvania, OH., John Borton is making his first trip to Top Gun this year and will be flying his 1/4-scale 1929 Pietenpol Aircamper in the Masters class. John drew up the plans from the original Pietenpol plans that he downloaded from the web. The model is built using traditional built up balsa and ply […]
Road to Top Gun: Fokker D.VII

Road to Top Gun: Fokker D.VII

Bill Toppa of Lake City, FL is again competing at the Top Gun Scale Invitational this year, and is going to fly a Balsa USA 1/4 SPAD XIII the first time in Pro AM Prop class. His 1/3-scale Fokker D.VII weighs 46 pounds and has a 108-inch  wingspan. Bill’s Balsa USA WW I biplane uses […]
EZ Build WW1 SE5a Scout

EZ Build WW1 SE5a Scout

MAN contributor and prolific model airplane designer Pat Tritle has another great construction article coming. This time it is the famous British dogfighter the RAF SE5a Scout. Electric powered, this parkflyer size WW1 biplane will be in the next issue of MAN and plans will soon be available at the AirAgeStore.com website. Pat will also […]
Road to Top Gun: P-47 Thunderbolt

Road to Top Gun: P-47 Thunderbolt

Mike Hague, (father of Cody Hague also competing), will be competing at his 5th Top Gun this year, in the Pro/Am Pro Prop category with his P-47 Thunderbolt. Starting out as a Top Flite ARF, I have stripped all the covering off and fiberglassed and painted with latex paint. Bomb and fuel tank drops have […]
Scale Engine Cowling Made Easy

Scale Engine Cowling Made Easy

One of MAN’s most popular construction plans are for the 1/3-scale Howard Ike racer designed by Henry Haffke. Several years ago, I teamed up with Henry to help him build and finish his giant-scale version of his popular 1970s era, .40-size Howard Ike DGA-5 racer, the Miss Chevrolet. It included several interesting building techniques, one […]
Road to Top Gun: Junkers Ju 87 Stuka

Road to Top Gun: Junkers Ju 87 Stuka

10 years old Cody Hague, (son of Mike Hague, also competing), is competing at his 2nd Top Gun this year, and will be flying a Ziroli Stuka dive-bomber built by his grandfather Brian Hague in the Pro/Am Sport Prop category. The Ziroli Stuka has a 100-inch wingspan, weighs 29lbs., and is powered by an O.S. […]
Road to Top Gun: F-86 Sabre Jet

Road to Top Gun: F-86 Sabre Jet

Recently married couple Jordan (builder) and Larry Peterson (pilot) from Westland, MI are competing for the first time at Top Gun in 2019. They are competing in Team Scale with their impressive 1:3.7 scale F-86 Sabre Jet. The jet is powered by a Behotec 220, and is guided by a Futaba 18SZ. The plane is […]
Scale Leather Cockpit Coaming

Scale Leather Cockpit Coaming

I am always looking for things I can use in my scale modeling projects. So when I was finishing up my latest project I needed something to duplicate the leather coaming that protects the pilot from the cockpit opening edges. I found that an easy way to make good looking coaming right at a local […]
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