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Model aircraft day has Blackbushe crowds flying high

By Tim Tonkin
May 21, 2010

IT WAS chocks away at Blackbushe airport last Saturday as model aircraft enthusiasts gathered to watch a day of aeronautical displays.

Models of varying sizes and speeds took to the air during the daylong celebration, which saw modellers, and families alike turn out to enjoy the occasion.

The event, which was organised by the Thames Valley Scale Airtow club (TVSA), was the fourth of its kind with organisers pleased with the turn out.

Over 1,000 people descend on the airport including a group of aircraft model enthusiasts from Germany who brought with them a selection of planes never flown before in the UK.

Exciting

One of the most spectacular sights on the day was that of the DG 1000 jet engine model, which, with a wing span of nearly nine metres, was rather hard to miss.

Speaking after the event TVSA member Andy Schafer said he’d been very pleased with the how things had gone.

He said: “It was the best day we’ve ever, a fast and exciting day of flying and aerobatics.”

For more information on aircraft modelling and the TVSA go to www.tvsa.scalesoaring.co.uk.

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Agreed WERF44,

This happens again and again. If we dont know before the event, why do we need to know after? It's like reading last weeks TV mag, 'this is what you could have watched'!

Kip, Southwood, Farnborough
20/06/2010 at 07:52

Why do you keep reporting on this type of event once it has happened? If you let people know this is GOING TO HAPPEN then maybe there would be more to report on? I would have loved to have known this was going on but yet again I am being told too late, just like the anniversary of boxing you reported on a month ago, I knew nothing of this until after the event..............useless.