Hello my name is Jim Fox and I have been modelling since I was about 5 years old. That is over 50 years. lol

 

I used to really like pylon racing and won the northern area club 20 pylon winter league for 2 years running using a Sid King model (can't remember the name) and an OPS 20.

I used to fly Heim/Vario helicopters for 10 years coming second in the British Nationals one year.

I manufactured the Jim Fox model range in the Uk making 8 different jets at one point.

GT models Hunter, DH Sea Vixen twin, Hawk DF 1/8th, Hawk turbine 1/6th, Viggen, Gripen, Gnat, Mig 29, Spectre,  I even managed to win the Top Gun UK event twice using the Viggen.

I flew a Mig 29 in the James Bond Goldeneye movie for about 2 seconds, the money and the food truck were very good. That 2 seconds took 2 weeks. I then did a couple of nature programmes for the BBC flying a Mig 29 in one and a Turbine Hawk in the other.

I had a few years off but then moved to Comp ARF in Thailand for about a year gaining valueable experience in the manufacture of composite aircraft.

I now oversee the manufacture of the Fox-Composites range of aircraft to my exacting standards with a skilled Thai workforce.

We make 4 different models but a little photo history first.

My first Viggen, about 1986. I had just won Top Gun Uk and this was in the local newspaper.

OS 91, Ramtec, Spring air retracts.

My first Hawk, based on the Peter Nye model, glass fuselage, foam wings/tail. OS 91, Ramtec, Spring air. Really nice to fly aerobatics and would even knife edge loop. Crashed it at the Babcary deep park Top Gun meeting showing off. Did a low pass behind a hill and the long grass was just a bit longer than I thought.

Komet and Junkers

 

Below is Mark Diggles Komet being hand launched.

This model acheived 340 kph using an 1800 watt motor and 6 cells. It got to 1300 feet, pulled a 24G turn and needs  24kph to stay airborne.

This was checked out using an Eagle tree data logger. The ground speed during the pass was around 360 kph and the comment was "it was a bit scary" seems apt for such a high speed. Alexander Lippisch knew what he was doing when he conceived the original. The model is really nice to fly and glides very well, much like the real one

The full size Komet would achieve 30,000 feet in 2 minutes, it took an ME109 30 minutes to do the same thing. Pity it only had a 5 minute endurance.

You Tube video of a 200 mph pass.