JMA Top Gun Event At Merryfield U.K.
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A two day event to place at the RNAS Merryfield over the weekend, with 'Top Gun' taking place on Sunday.
A very big thank you to Pat Barnes, his team, and the JMA committee involved with organising the event, this really is a great venue. The Judges on Sunday for Top Gun - Dave Tapping, Bert Hazeborg (N.L.) Richard Spreadbury awarded the Pete Nye Trophy Here are a few photographs from Saturday: Steve Roberts CARF Ultra Flash, Matte Smales Hunter, Simon Potter L39, Steve Houghty F16, Tim Jenkison with the Wizzard fitted with vectored thrust - interesting. Alistair Powers. |
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And a few more from Saturday, a number of showers passed through during the day, which made for a moody sky at times.
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And there is more:-
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The clouds are getting ever darker!!!!!!
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Flying continued :-
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Tim Jenkinson's Wizzard with the vectored thrust in action.
Steve Elias was flying his F86, this was Steves model for the "Top Gun" event D.W. from Motors & Rotors flew the "Scale Composites H.S. Gnat in a very scale like manner :- Alistair Powers |
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Couple of interesting models made an appearance at the event, Pyms 91 Ducted Fan powered Gnat, this model is still going strong, and in its 29th year!!!!!!!
D.W.s very original CARF Classic Flash, now in its 11th year, still looks really good, and flies equally well. Alistair Powers |
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A few more from Sunday:-
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Weather much improved on Sunday:-
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And more:-
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Luke Metcalfe's EE Lightning always looks good:-
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Fabulous group of pictures, thanks for taking time to post D |
The Lightning and the Gnat were the stars of the weekend, classic British metal!
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More photographs, and prize giving to follow:)
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A few close ups:-
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And the prize winners for 2017::-
The Top Gun Trophy went to Steve Elias with his F86 Steve Elias also won the best scale with his F-86 Sports Jet award went to Steve Roberts with his Ultra Flash in a really nice Swiss scheme Pilots choice Luke Metcalfe with his EE Lightning The Pete Nye trophy went to Matty Smales with his Hawker Hunter And the R.N.M.A.A special recognition award went to Steve Haughty with his F-16 Well done Guys,all the flying over the weekend was to a very high standard |
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This F.16 looked very nice against the dark skies
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Euro Fighter always looks good:-
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Nice pictures thank you
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Originally Posted by JP-1
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Tim Jenkinson's Wizzard with the vectored thrust in action.
Steve Elias was flying his F86, this was Steves model for the "Top Gun" event D.W. from Motors & Rotors flew the "Scale Composites H.S. Gnat in a very scale like manner :- Alistair Powers |
Yes, it is nice to see this very impressive model of a classic British 1950s jet,flown in a sympathetic manner as befits the full size, the team from Scale Composites should be applauded for getting the model from drawing board to flight status.
The Gnat is not the easiest scale design to model, however even on this pre production example the fit and finish is very good, and the systems seem to be working as designed. A very impressive model to see in the air, even better when the sun is shining on those yellow wings. Alistair Powers. |
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A light hearted moment between the Pilots & Judges:)
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They are getting ready to run
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They are getting ready to run 😃
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