The last Sunday of 2013 - A good turn-out despite the frosty
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Over 22 members attended the 2013 Annual General Meeting was held at
the Aviator Hotel, Sywell Aerodrome on 4 Dec. |
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 Dave Harbour presented Ray Cox (right) with the trophy for winning the Electric Fun-Fly |
 Jeff Barringer (right) received the trophy for winning the 2013 Rookie Competition |
 Dave Harbour presented John Morse (right) with the Andy Fowler Memorial Trophy for winning the IC Fun-Fly |
Indoor Flying |
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<---<<<This season's indoor flying started with a visit to a gym near Northampton. Dave was ready with his camera when Simon forgot himself for a moment and thought he was playing basketball - you can see the approaching window pole used to liberate the stranded cub. |
IC Fun-Fly for the Andy Fowler Memorial trophy |
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 John Morse receives one of his bottles of wine from Dave Harbour (organisor of the competition) - and to the right, "The trophy now safely back where it belongs", said Morse! |
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Round 2 of the Rookie Competition |
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 Only 5 compeitors could make it on the day |
 Overall Winner Jeff Barringer (right) receives the trophy from Dave Harbour |
 Winner on the day Alan Smedley (right) receives his bottle of plonk from Dave Harbour, the organisor of the comp |
 OK ... I know these aren't Rookies ... but there was a free space and it's a nice picture anyway! |
18 August 2013 |
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 Andy prepares the machine for active duty .... |
 ... and fires her up .... |
 ...has a quiet word with the pilot ... |
 ......while the spectators look on .... |
 at last .... up she goes! .... |
 ..... and ...... back down again! |
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 The unveiling ceremony of the club's new pop-up gazebo. This will be available for all to use once a few technical issues have been resolved. |
The Rookie Comp Round 1 was held on 14 July - Steve took a few
pictures - here they are |
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 Here are some of the competitors |
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The winner - Mick Addington (left) receiving his bottle of plonk from the Chairman John Morse (porker in the shorts) |
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 You're not trying to bribe the judges are you? |
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 A little ceremonial dance before each flight didn't do Mick any harm since he won! |
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 Look behind you! |
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 Dave Harbour, the organiser of the event gives his Rookie a good send off! |
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That's the last of the Rookie pictures? - we've got round 2 to go yet... so there'll be more! |
Early July flying session |
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Just as well that it wasn’t
going any faster, we would never have seen that fin sticking up. |
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June - Ian Wilde demonstrated his tri-copter - includes pictures taken
with the on-board camera |
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| Highlights from the electric fun-fly, held on 19th May. It attracted 11 entrants (results on competitions page) - more pictures will arrive soon. | |
 Chairman John Morse (blue hat) presents the trophy for overall winner to Ray Cox. Ray also won the limbo round for which he was awarded a bottle wine. |
 Guy Bowden receives his prize for winning the "Climb & Glide" round. |
 Chris Dickens receives one of his prizes for winning both the number of 8's and the spot landing rounds. |
 Alan Smedley (organiser) with his clip-board |
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 That's the way to do it! |
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 How not to do it! - these 5 pictures show how the tragedy unfolded |
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Andy gave us an excellent and informative demonstration of what happens when you fly a foamy into a wire fence. Still, nothing that glue won't fix - quite a lot of glue actually! Reminds me of the way we used to make chips ... before oven-chips were invented. |
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Experimental Drone |
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14 April - too windy to fly (just Dave braved it) - so ... mower
maintenance instead |
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NVA at Windmill School Model Exhibition - Raunds |
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Experiment? |
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<--- what happens when you nail a LiPo to a piece of wood - For information only - definitely not recommended! |
A bit of excitement when ravers took over the forest behind the flying
field |
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Enjoying the Sun - 17 Feb (not so keen on the
mud though) |
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Indoor flying at St Neots MFC |
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<----- somebody (.... can't think who?) managed to get their helicopter stuck on the heater - one kindly soul from the host club climbed up the improvised ladder to get it down!
(Photo by Simon Fisher - so it probably wasn't him!) |
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<--The snow didn't stop Ash and Howard! |
Indoor Flying in January |
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 HAPPY BIRTHDAY! - Dave Harbour's birthday was celebrated in the usual way - however the number of candles had to be limited after advice from the fire brigade! |
 Combat! |
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 Looks like the mice thought this was cheese! |
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 Ray's tiny plane gets a hand launch |
6 January |
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< ----- Here we see Michael modelling our new club winter uniform. The cheerful smile due to the fact he managed not to lose his model in the clouds! |
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Simon
Fisher received his prize for winning the "loops in a minute" round. Simon
came second overall.
