Nick Gibbs 1 Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 Does anyone know of any famous amateur (dead) RC/model flyers in the past? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eflightray Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 I met Howard Boys a few times many many years ago, (1950's -1960's). He was a member of our the local Rugby MESAS club. Rugby Model Engineers Society Aero Section. He occasionally flew some of his single channel RC models at Brownsover, Rugby, and also at Church Lawford aerodrome. There is a tribute to him on the 'antiquemodelaircraft' site. Ray. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J D 8 Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 Actors James Steward and Henry Fonda were aeromodeler's. Pic's of them and aircraft on the web. Edited By J D 8 on 10/01/2019 13:44:50 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiwiKid Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 This subject is quite interesting and has been addressed a few times regarding dead (and not so dead) famous modelers. **LINK** **LINK** **LINK** Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fun Flyer Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 David Bowie, Abbot and Costello, Mike Oldfield. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocker Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 Who can remember Hanner Prattner ( I think that how you spell it but I would not bet on it ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattyB Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 Posted by Rocker on 10/01/2019 15:22:29: Who can remember Hanner Prattner ( I think that how you spell it but I would not bet on it ) Do you mean Hanno Prettner? For me the most famous would be Ayrton Senna... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattyB Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 ...and... Edited By MattyB on 10/01/2019 15:36:25 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Chambers Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 Before Ayrton there was Emerson Fitipaldi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrman Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 Juan Pablo Montoya and Roy Orbison. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J D 8 Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 Probably the most famous. Neil Armstrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Duncker Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 Wow I had no idea there were so many pop stars and racing drivers who flew toy planes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Rocker Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 Yes that the man Posted by MattyB on 10/01/2019 15:34:43: ...and... Edited By MattyB on 10/01/2019 15:36:25 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocker Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 Yes that is him . Hanno Prettner ( nearly spelt it right ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Privett Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 Hanno Prettner used to fly at the Sandown shows in the 1990s. And very good he was too. I have one of the little signed cards that he used to hand out there. It's on my model room wall beside two signed posters from Christophe Paysant-Le Roux who continued the "modelling celebrity" slot in the years at Sandown after Hanno stopped. Ayrton Senna has been mentioned, I have a magazine article somewhere about his model flying - possibly in one of the French mags. Also mentioned earlier was Mike Oldfield. Tubular Bells is probably his best-known album, but his second album Hergest Ridge is named after a hill near where he lived at the time and a model glider appears in the image of the hill on the album cover. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Fairgrieve Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 Mike Brewer. He of "Wheeler Dealers" fame. Kev Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Nick Gibbs 1 Posted January 10, 2019 Author Share Posted January 10, 2019 Thanks to all. I’d be really interested to read the article about Senna, assuming I can understand it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben B Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 Okay not quite so famous- Vernon Kaye used to fly at wormwood scrubs. Paul Daniels flew r/c. Harry Enfield bought a glow heli from the model shop in Camden Town but took it back later! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cuban8 Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 RCM&E did an article on Paul Daniels's R/C modelling, IIRC back sometime in the 80s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Dilly 1 Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 The late, great Derek Piggott, who died on Jan 6th., aged 96. He was a member of Croydon & DMAC and was on the first British post-War Wakefield team in 1948 at Akron, Ohio. During the War he flew Horsas and Hadrians and also Dakotas doing supply-dropping in Burma. He went on to become a legend in gliding as CFI at Lasham from 1953-89. He did the stunt flying for Magnificemt Men and The Blue Max, during which he flew a replica Fokker Triplane under a bridge (actually in Co. Wicklow, rather than France), as well as many other movies. He set a UK altitude record of 17,000 feet flying a Sedbergh, with an ATC cadet in the righthand seat ( and a couple of weeks later was one of those who taught me to fly a T-31 at RAF Detling). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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