Gents, because I have some time to spend, Friday I can continue covering the wings, I did create some
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We did talk sometimes about the Award the Concourse d’Elegance Ed did win with his Faithfull Old Taurus in 1963 during the Internationals in Belgium Genk.
Concourse d’Elegance, after we see the Award from Lufthansa in 1963 in Genk Belgium. Would we find this kind of award also in another country somewhere on the world??
It is important for us, modelers to see if the Internationals are important for worldwide promotion of our hobby.
Here we have something to prove and I have done an independent, completely neutral research.
TEST
I did blindfold myself with a big map of the whole world punched on the wall in front of me.
With a needle I did make a punch in the map (Dutch: steekproef) to give me a random location, maybe township, in a random country somewere on our globe.
Result:
“Mount Darwin” a township in “Rhodesia”!
Never heard about that place: “Mount Darwin”!
Where for the hell could be that country?”Rhodesia”!
After some research I did find an example that people also there, in the middle of nowhere, Africa!, did know about a concourse d’ elegance for model airplanes:
READ
ORIGINAL: Extracted from the May 1970 Ndege which was made available by Johnny Ness.
Aeromodelling Success • April 1970
It is inevitable that some of those who spend their days flying or servicing aero planes should often spend their evenings tinkering with aircraft models. It is doubtful whether 'tinkering" is quite the right word to use when describing the hobby of Senior Technician Eric Bell, but there is no doubt that amongst aeromodelling enthusiasts, he's one of the keenest. Eric has been at the glue and the balsa wood since he was nine years old, but it is only during the past year that he has branched out into the field of radio-controlled models. However, he developed his building and flying skills to a sufficiently high pitch to qualify for the National Team. Together with three colleagues from the Mashonaland Model Club, he represented Rhodesia at the South African Radio-Controlled Model Championships which were held in Pretoria at Easter.
Flying his $600 models at speeds of up to 100 mph, Eric scored outright victories in two individual events, gained a third placing in the 'Concours d'Elegance', and was adjudged 4th over all in the National Champion¬ships. The secret of his success? "I owe it all to Flight Lieutenant Rich Brand", he said, "He has taught me all I know about radio control, and most of my aero planes are built from his designs. He was also non-competing Manager of our team at Pretoria, and he gave us a lot of coaching."
Flight Lieutenant Brand is, of course, an ex-South African Champion in the event-nice to see the ‘Old Hand’ still in there, helping along the younger generation.
Thanks Johnny
It is nice to see again that already in 1970, 7 years after Belgium, all modelers were connected. But we already did know that, read the post 301 Page 13, Ed Kazmirski's Taurus.
I think he would prefer Zimbabwean (although perhaps not these days) That's a bit like calling a Canadian an American - they don't like that at all !!!
Yes, the Panzer of course was designed by Rich Brand who was a pilot in the Rhodesian Air Force before he emigrated to the US.
Ray
Ohh, and then again things becomes clear:
Calling a Zimbabwean a Rhodesian, that's a bit like calling a Canadian an American??
Canadians and Americans I did read about them also before, 20 of them in Detroit.
The Detroit Invitational.
Did Rich Brand ever win the Detroit Invitational’s?
More to come, especially questions!!
One thing we already know, first places only for Taurusses!!
Second point never change the sequence of facts.
Cees