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fetcheveryone 17th Sep 2010 14:57
The Handley Page Trophy
 
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


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

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.


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