The Lawton Area Fun Flyer Society’s first model airplane show held recently at Central Mall in Lawton was deemed a “great success” by LAFFS club president Ken Isaac. “We had steady traffic all day,” Isaac said, “with people waiting to use our three flight simulators and a lot of questions about the models, particularly the jet turbine model displayed by Brent Brennan, and the big Russian Yak 54 owned by Jerry Chinnow.

Club member, Larry Kruse, who coordinated the event, said there were over 400 people voting on their favorite for the “People’s Choice Award”, many of whom had direct connections with the full-size versions of the military models on display.

The first place winner with over one fourth of the votes was a twin engine WWII Mitchell B-25 bomber with a rotating gun turret, retractable landing gear, and bomb bay doors that opened and closed. The model was owned and displayed by Ken Isaac. The model had previously been featured on the internet R/C Universe web site.

Second place finisher was Jerry Chinnow’s huge Russian Yak 54 aerobatic model with a wing span of 122”. The model was powered by a 19 horsepower twin-cylinder engine running on gasoline.

Third place winner was a one-third scale Pitts Special S-2S aerobatic biplane shown by Paul Phillips. The model spanned 68” and was powered by a Zenoah G45 (45cc) gasoline engine.