The project Thunder is about the airfield where remote control planes can fly near to the small airport “Gastone Novelli” ; here registered people at the group G.A.R. are allowed to train and practice.
A great advantage offered by the aircraft models is that they allow hobbyists to take a “divine” point of view, a sort of illusory “eye of god”, that puts in apparent condition of superiority who created the model in question.The activity of production & “customization” of the pieces produced in series, reveals the appearance of great competition among amateurs, in particular, in the “game” of Airplanes-modelling individualism coexist with a sense of belonging to the hobbyist’s group, in fact it makes no sense spectacularly “customizing” their own aircraft-model, not either to perform in risky stunts, if not for their audience of faithful “playmates”.
A sort of magic circle is being created, like a club or a tribe, with their own language, with a code of rules that you are forbidden to break or you are out from the group.Â
The first priority is being the best “simulator” among the others.
The aircraft-models are personalized and fun representations of real aircrafts and really close to the airfield the real airport is operating, and with its activity it considerably resizes the ambitions of modelers who can compete with regular airplanes, winning in skill, chromaticism and absence of risks to the pilot.
The control of the vehicles becomes virtual as simulated on a smaller scale, and the more the object is miniaturized and seductive the larger are the hobbyist’s vanity and his ambition to be well considered as a champion, even if just for a few minutes.
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