View Full Version : The Handley Page Trophy
fetcheveryone
17th Sep 2010, 14:57
Does anyone know what this was/is?
Noyade
17th Sep 2010, 21:43
G'day mate. I had a google and kept getting models and Handley Page models at that.
Looks like the guy who made this held the trophy for a while?..
http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/9287/dscn8667tq3.jpg (http://img838.imageshack.us/i/dscn8667tq3.jpg/)
That Heyford was at Scalemodelworld 2006, and won;
Bronze in Category 21 (1/71 and larger aircraft), the Bomber Command Trophy, the Handley Page Trophy and the Ron Rowley Memorial Trophy. It was built by Aris Polyzos.
Vince Unfortunately I lost interest in the trophy because I was surprised to learn from that photo that the Heyford's four bladed prop was simply two props bolted together? Was this a common solution back then?
So I googled more images of the Heyford and sure enough...
But with this photo I lost interest in the props and was more concerned with the dead(?) guy laying prone on the concrete...?!
http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/7278/00091934.jpg (http://img375.imageshack.us/i/00091934.jpg/)
So I stopped googling.
Load Toad
18th Sep 2010, 01:02
He's not dead - he's blowing up the wheels with that big pipe thing. His mates are watching him - very impressed.
He does look like he's just fallen and bought the farm though.