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ver fifty years ago, both the One Eighth Air Force and the Scale Squadron of Southern California began a tradition of hosting a spring Warbirds & Classics event for scale aircraft. Although these original fun scale fly-ins ushered in the era of scale competition with the vision of Harris Lee, who founded the U.S. Scale Masters in 1980 and Frank Tiano, who founded the Top Gun Scale Invitational 10 years later, they continued to be