"Dave" wrote in message
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"Richard Lamb" wrote in message
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Eye of the beholder, I guess.
Richard

and

ChuckSlusarczyk wrote:
"A small object, usually built to scale, that represents in detail
another,
often larger object." rather fits the bill.

I disagree about that.

1.. An object for children to play with

Barring the notion of children, This looks good to me.

As I said to the indignant OP, it's a silly arguement. I think they're
toys,
and I don't think they are models of anything except perhaps in the most
general terms. I think they are an interesting curiousity, entertaining.
The
operator is clearly talented. I offered up "miniature aircraft" as
appropriate. So, as soon as I see a full size aircraft that is a copy of.
I'll change my opinion.

It does remind me of the paroxysms of rage that came from the character of
the German engineer in the original "Flight of the Pheonix" and that image
came immediately to mind whan I read the original complaint.


When I was a kid, our U-control models were called "models", and the
precision replicas that people of all ages bought or built were also called
models. And it seemed that all of them miraculously became toys when you
were yelled at.

Clearly, however, if a "full size" copy of one of the smaller aircraft was
built, then the larger craft must be the "model"...

Just my 2¢

Peter