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Posted: August/09/2015 at 9:09am  Quote
 
I dont know how many people from RCSB made it to the N.A.M.F.I in Owatonna MN. the smmac club that hosts the event , the field is owned by MR Tim Johnson
who has a hart of gold with a field that has a great runway
but this was one of the most memorable shows that I have been to. so many people dedicated to the hobby and to each other, as far as helping each other out. I my self am new to the scale war bird community and I cant get enough its awesome
I am going to post some pics of the event and if there is any one with more pics please chime in. with people coming in from all over the U.S. it was great seeing old friends and making new ones 





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Posted: August/11/2015 at 10:15am  Quote
 
here are some pics of the event


canopy's as far as you can see



Paul Winterton and Patrick from south Dakota , the guys that I pitted with, Paul had the only R2 gee bee a very good flyer



Jeff Q. with some of his squadron



Gains Smith and Howard Davidson with there new Skyraiders if any one is looking to build this size Skyraider get a hold of Gains he has all the info on plans and contacts for parts



Mark Sours with his awesome P-47



John  Baligrodzai with his well detailed Zero



Gary Owen Left and Todd Davis right with there fleet from the dark side they represented the Luftwaffe very well Todd had a siren on the Stuka that worked well



the boys from Fond-Du-Lac brought some impressive birds Doug Yaroch ,Joe Mayer,
and Mark Johnson

 

we only had one serous crash that went in across the road thankfully  no one was hurt



Chad and his wonderful Wife Rebecca where there from Balsa USA  to help any one that got the WWI bug or just need some balsa for the next project




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Hey,  I'm trying to make contact with Doug Yaroch who was given as the builder of his scratch built B17 shown in the September Model Aviation.. Now I see the same B17 in this thread. I emailed Bob Johnson who is one of the authors of the article but have not gotten any response as yet.

I read in that article that Doug Yaroch scratch built his B17 in memory of his father who spent 12 months in a POW camp after he was shot down. That same exact text applies to the B17 I scratch built in memory of my Dad who was shot down on May 19, 1944 and spent 12 months in POW camps or marching between them. Well I know all the names of my Dad's crew and the markings on Doug's plane told me that he was not in the 570th BS with my Dad but there were 588 B17 on mission 106 (8th AF 358) escorted b y 155 P-38s, 182 P-47s and 363 P-51s. So assuming that Doug has rounded off the days to 12 months, and my Dad was a POW for 11 days short of 12 months, our Dads could have been shot down on the same mission... may have even crossed paths in a POW camp.

I presented my Dad's story as a speaker at the 2016 AMA EXPO.


So if anyone out there knows Doug, please pass my email address on to him.  mikeleggett1@yahoo.com

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Mike:

Doug’s call sign on this forum is A-D-Aero

The replica of his Dad’s Shining Hour is a heavily modified Wingspan 1/9 scale.

If you need further assistance getting in touch with him, I will ask his permission.

Keep the Faith!

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Posted: September/26/2020 at 10:39am  Quote
 
Thanks Mark,  we have made contact through email.  His Dad got shot down a week later on another mission.  It was a big war.

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