Article by Brian Malin
A look back at 60 years of competition.
Photoed above, Phil Hartman, founder of Blue Ridge Models, with his HLG.
Also featured in the January 2015 issue of Model Aviation.
At dinner one evening in 1954, my father, a master sergeant in the Marines, announced he had just gotten new orders and we were moving. Little did I know that it was to be the start of a life with model airplanes.
At Opa-locka Naval Air Station in Miami, Florida, my dad ran the motor pool and his orders were to organize the GIs with Jeeps to retrieve Free Flight (FF) model airplanes at…
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