Tom Hutchison Free Flight Picture Gallery This past week a photograph was posted on Facebook showing Roger Simpson, Pierre Chassenburg and Tom Hutchinson. The photograph is part of a collection of photographs from Tom. Tom along with being a well-known designer of several models from the 60’s and 70’s was also a person who loved to take photographs at contest. Tom passed away in the early 80’s and his collection of photographs was given to Bob Stalick for using in National Free Flight Society publications. After I had set up the FAI Power web site with the help of Joe Mekina, Joe made contact with Bob to see if we could use the photographs on the FAI Power web site. Bob agreed and Joe then took time to have them scanned in. As Joe and myself are busy with several different projects in our somewhat busy lives we agreed to take some time trying to identify the flyers in the photographs. Because neither one of us made the time when this site was created some time ago, Joe then decided to just make a web site using the photographs without identifying the pictures on the website. At this time we have not posted any of the photographs on the FAI Power web site where we take the time to include information such as names, locations and dates. Perhaps as time and interest permits we will do this someday for both this website and the one for FAI Power. I had viewed the web site this past week and saw that only 203 visitors had visited the site. This made me thing that a lot of free flight flyers did not know about the web site. If you like looking at models and competitors from the past take some time and visit the 499 pictures posted on this web site: picturejoe/tom-hutchison-picture-gallery/ The collection includes contest from Taft, 1973 Pierre Trebod, 1971 and 1973 World Champs. Very young looking Eugene Verbitsky, Peter Allnutt, Ken Faux, Doug Galbreath, Thomas Koster and many others are in the photographs. Also, you will notice that not all the models look the same. Back when the competitor’s built then own designs. The website is set up to view the 499 pictures quickly by displaying clickable low resolution thumbnails with a maximum pixel width or height of only 200 pixels. However, clicking on the thumbnail gives a “half-size” higher resolution picture. These “half-size” pictures can be considered by some to be high resolution, on the order of 1350 x 2000 pixels. If you really want to view a true high resolution version, perhaps to zoom in on a detail, simply replace “half-size” in the URL in your browser with “full-size” and the high resolution on the order of 2700 x 4000 pixels will appear. Use your browsers back button to return to the thumbnails. Enjoy! Posted by Roger Morrell for Walt Ghio and Joe Mekina
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 01:35:03 +0000
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