1:25 SCALE PRECISION CARD ENGINEERING MODELS OF CLASSIC AIRPLANES

"If you think that card models are not for the serious enthusiast, then these models should change your minds. A great deal of care has gone into their preparation, and it shows"

Aeromodeller magazine Vol 59 No 703 Aug 1994

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Hooton AirCraft break new ground for card model miniatures by combining precision paper engineering techniques with high quality etched, moulded and machined metal, vac-form moulded and formed wooden components. Many hundreds have been sold world-wide since their introduction in 1993 to considerable critical acclaim, gaining endorsements from the National Aeroplane Collection at the Royal Air Force Museum at Hendon, the Shuttleworth Collection, the DH Moth Club and other aviation museums and organisations.

Jason kit -contents may vary

They use a unique inside-out form of construction, with inner armatures skinned with gloss coated Astrolux self-coloured cards with cutting, scoring and embossing directions on their inside surfaces. These give a superb finish to the models, with an amazingly realistic representation of wood and fabric airframes.

The accuracy of pattern outline and simple step-by-step assembly instructions allows even modestly skilled modellers to produce a generally good, but always superbly finished model. Many of the kits have been built by experts, and their large scale gives the opportunity for considerable "expert tweaking" to the highest exhibition standards.

Most of the kits have etched metal parts, vac forms for difficult 3D moulded components, resin-cast or hand-built metal exposed engines, carved pine propellers, wire and rigging cable, moulded wheels, and comprehensive decals. All the kits contain illustrated step-by-step instructions, histories of the type and of individual aircraft, and a handbook detailing special card modelling techniques. Some of the kits include specially prepared colour 3 or 5 views, and include some original photos.

Caernarfon AirWorld DH Rapide kit -contents may vary

Hooton AirCraft prepare special ranges of models for sale at museum shops depicting aircraft in the particular museum's collection. Examples of these are our Shuttleworth Model Collection, Model National Aeroplane Collection (RAF Hendon) and the Model MMSI Collection (Museum of Science and Industry at Manchester). We welcome enquiries from Museum Curators and Retail Managers.

We also prepare kits in special colourways for individual customers to depict your favourite example of an airplane from our range and have produced one-off kits of most of the UK private owned Moths,Tiger Moths and Rapides! We have even made up the models in fictitious colourways - more than one customer has models of our Moths in Liverpool and Everton Football Club liveries! These make great personalised gifts for the aviation enthusiast. Please send us details for a quote - normally we charge £10 ($20) on top of the normal kit price to prepare individual schemes.

Comper Swift kit -contents may vary

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USA.............Send orders with $$US payment to:

Joseph Bloom

908 22nd St NE

Canton

OHIO 44714

USA

UK.............Send orders with ££UK payment to:

Hooton AirCraft

Administration

15 Percy Street

Liverpool L8 7LT

UK

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Hooton AirCraft © Peter Richardson 1997 e-mail par@cct.u-net.com

Hooton AirCraft were conceived by Peter Richardson in support of a madcap enthusiasts scheme to develop a Museum of Popular Aviation at Hooton Park in the North West of England.

A much younger Peter Richardson with own design Nordic A2. This aeroplane won the SMAE Junior glider Championship back in 1956! Peter was Norhern Junior Champion that year winning Junior Rubber and Glider and third place in senior open rubber.

Hooton Park was once famous as the home of the Liverpool and District Aero Club which, in the golden years of aviation between the wars was the most popular aero club in Britain outside of London. Hooton Park Aerodrome was the home of the Comper Aeroplane Co, makers of the world-beating Comper Swift; the Pobjoy Aero engine Co, who, during the 1930's built an amazing 2.6 litre 7 cylinder radial engine of almost 100 h.p.; the Martin Hearne Company, which besides operating airlines before WWII, during the war as No 7 Aircraft Assembly Unit put together over 7,000 aircraft imported into England under lend-lease from America and from the Dominion factories in Canada. Hooton was also selected by Edsel Ford to be the European centre for the production of the Ford Trimotor, three of which were assembled by Comper's, but a dearth of European sales precluded further production.

Built in 1917, originally as a Royal Flying Corps training aerodrome for American and Canadian pilots, during the 1920's and 30's the aerodrome was reopened for civil use, and was commissioned again for military service in 1937, when it became the base for 610 Sqdrn, soon to go to war and serve with honours, first in the Battle of Britain, when Chas Storrer - who later was to serve as the Squadron Commander - became one of the first allied aces. Later 610 Sqdrn was commanded by those other aces, Douglas Bader and Johnnie Johnston. 610 Squadron was finally disbanded in 1958, and Hooton Park closed as an aerodrome, only to reopen some four years later as General Motors mammoth Ellesmere Port Vauxhall Car Assembly Plant.

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