Club Chairman 2000-2021

Fixed Wing Rep

BMFA examiner

Secretary of the JMA

Annoys everyone by making it all look so easy.

Equally at home coaching a first-timer via a buddy lead or piloting his own turbine-powered monsters through the clouds, Roger does a superb job as our Chairman. He devotes a considerable amount of spare time to ensuring the grass is beautifully cut too!

Like many modellers, Roger's career in model flying was sparked way back by his interest in building and flying control-liners, although his interest veered off for 30 years or so into the sphere of motor cycle racing, at which he achieved a fair amount of success!

Being an engineer (he ran his own computer network installation business) the technology associated with jet models and the thought of flying jets prompted Roger's return to modelling back in the late 90s and he started jet flying using his own-built Wren MW-54 and Delta 2000 model.

Following this came the adrenaline rush of a couple of Yellow Aircraft Stingrays before going the scale route and a superb F-18, complete with all the complexity of its landing gear and gear doors!

Supported throughout by wife Sue, Roger is based in Cheltenham and, in common with many jet modellers in the South, spends most of his jet flying time at Wroughton airfield, where he is very active in helping newcomers to, not just the jet scene, but any branch of our hobby.

Roger Kilbey