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14September

The History of the Hobart Model Aero Club as recalled by Garth Wilmot

Screen Shot 2017 09 14 at 3.10.27 pm I will start with the story of my early involvement in HMAC as I recall it.

After meddling with solid scale models and some rubber powered model with limited success I was introduced to control-line models in 1948 by a work colleague, the late Lawrie Baxter.

19April

Peter Barclay's Memoirs of an Aeromodeller

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In 1948, my classmate, Colin Borthwick and I had heard about this new Control Line flying at Balmoral oval, right opposite the beach and naval depot. Colin later became a leading light in the Queensland “Vintagencia”, flying R/C assist old time free flighters, before sadly dying of kidney failure in about 1996.