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<---- John Turner displays a selection of his
trophies after winning Electric Fun-Fly and the Rookie comps,. It was close, but due to
his regular attendance at the competitions, earned him the
"Champion of Champions" award as well
<----- Dave Harbour won the I.C. Fun-Fly
competition and came 2nd in the "Champion of Champions" table - being
pipped by only 2 points by John Turner.
30th November
<---- Maiden flight of Jeff Barringer's excellent
Sopwith Pup
18th September - I.C. Fun-Fly
Some of the contestants and associates pose for a photo
<--- Dave Harbour (left) was the overall
winner of the trophy and also won the "15 loops and the "climb ad glide"
John Grosbvalds won "2 loops, 2 rolls".....
.... and Bob Nicholson won the "spot landing"
31 August
Howard Robinson (left) has the honour of
joining that exclusive club of those that managed to get their model
stck in a tree ......
..... and so does Dave Brown.
<------ in August we had some very hot weather
and it wasn't only the sheep that took shelter under the trees!
7August - second round of the Rookie Competition
All those that took part
15th May - BMFA's World Record Attempt
NVA's sporting team of record holders
Above - The action video
Right and below -
below a selection of pictures (play "spot the planes")
15th May - The Electric Fun-Fly
Alan Smedley (right) organised the comp here
seen awarding Mike Wilson with his prize for winning the "Ring-Drop"
round.......
........ and John Turner for the spot landing
.....
...... and John Grosfields for the "Climb and
Glide" .....
...... and Alan Smedley himself for the Limbo
(see pictures below) Here Alan is prending to hold the trophy for the
overall winner - that was John Turner who received the trophy at a later
date.
Neil Dubal won the prize for most entertaining
crash. Sorry Neil, but it has become a
tradition - you was lucky, one year it was pork scratchings !
Above - John Turner receiving the Elec Fun Fly trophy, sometime after
the event
Below are a few pics taken on the day
Dave Harbour won the Champion of Champions
comp 2021 and in his modest way wanted eveyone to know....
......he looks less happy here ..... I can't
think why .....
.... ah! .....
..... that'll be why
An old timer - (he's got the
stop-watch- geddit?)
May/June
Congratulations to Dave Brown (left) here seen receiving his
A-certificate from Andy Hibbert .....
..... and a few weeks later Guy Bowden (right) receives a well-earned
tree sticker from Dave Harbour
April
<-- Dinis Cachao (right) receives his first,
and well earned, tree sticker from Dave Harbour
Progress in producing replacement starting benches.
The design and development team contemplate
the options ....
Prototype well on its way ....
... here ...
... and here seen being modelled
Almost there - watch this space for the Mk II
Flashback (c.2014)
Guy Bowden recently came across an old video taken on board his Laser
150 powered Pitts biplane. It was taken with and "old fashioned" (i.e.
large) video camera taped o the wing - enjoy!