Linden DJ wows flyers and spectators with his model planes

The plane being taken out of its garage bound for the Industrial Area Dyke

Around Linden he is known as `Movements’, the name of the sound system for which he is one of the most beloved DJs in town, but one would be mistaken to assume that music is his only passion.

Troy Roberts has a passion for building and flying model planes. Unlike most other local and Caribbean flyers he builds his own planes and holds the Caribbean record for constructing the largest model plane. On Sunday, flying enthusiasts from around Guyana, from Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados converged at the Industrial Area Dyke in Mackenzie to witness the flying of an 18ft, 4ft wing span model plane.

Sunday’s activity was described as a semi-launch and is the first in the history of Linden. Roberts’s ‘Supa’ all-Styrofoam electric engines made of batteries and a motor, shone from among a group of models powered