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Aviation History
1961
1961 - 0560.PDF
One-sixteenth-scale cut-away model of Comet 4 for Aerolineas Argentinas, by Industrial Leather Products. Below is one of the same maker's solid wood models, a l/24th-scale Mk2l Bristol Freighter for West African Airways Corporation A pair of wing-tip models for copy-milling, by Mastermodels. Machining of the finished Duralumin wing tips, to a plus accuracy of 0-005in, was also done by the company Scale-model Artistry . . . of factory space devoted to the construction of wind tunnel modelsand industrial patterns to AID standards. A director of the com- pany is Mr L. G. Barr, who earlier in his career was one of thiscountry's most consistently successful competitors in national and international model-flying competitions; and it is not withoutinterest that successful participation in the News Chronicle (now Daily Mail) "Get Ahead" television contests helped Mr Barr in thelaunching of his present enterprise. Scale models for exhibition, display and sales promotion com-prise only a proportion of the Mastermodels' output, about half of which is exported. Design and erection of exhibition stands, andthe construction of prototype models of any kind of equipment, are other specialities, together with the production of cast-resin wind-tunnel models of extremely high dimensional accuracy, and equally precise wood patterns for copy milling. That this company maysoon spring out of the "model" into the "modelled" field is implicit in its hint that it expects soon to be involved in the design and con-struction of a man-powered aircraft. Industrial Leather Products Ltd, of Gatwick Airport, Horley.Surrey, is another specialist in display models. (That their name seems at first glance a little surprising in this connection is verysimply explained—by the fact that their business is that of "suppliers of leather, plastic and fabric goods to the aircraft and airlineindustries.") This company frequently produces solid models carved from wood and chooses cast aluminium as the material forproduction runs of presentation models. Cut-away models are usually of Perspex but occasionally vacuum-formed polystyreneand Fibreglass are chosen. Models ranging in scale from \ /200th to Four miniatures for the home modeller: Hovercraft by Airfix Ltd; Camel by Keilkraft Ltd; "Frog" model of the Victor by International Model Aircraft Ltd; and "Aurora" model of the F-105 Thunderchief by Playcraft
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