issue no. 43 australian model news

December 2016

Issue No. 43

AUSTRALIAN MODEL NEWS

Australian Model News page 2

Contents 3. TREVOR TAYLOR’S AVRO LANCASTER 4. GARY SUNDERLAND 1934 - 2016 6. PINNAROO FUN FLY SOUTH AUSTRALIA 8. FLOAT FLY AT ALBURY 12. SAM 600 AT ECHUCA 16. GRAMPIANS MFC FUN FLY 18. SAM 2001 INTERNATIONAL TOMBOY POSTAL RALLY 21. THE VINTAGE AVIATOR MASTERTON, NEW ZEALAND 24. SCRATCH / KIT BUILT SCALE RALLY AT P&DARCS 28. SAM 600 AT COHUNA 30. AUSTRALIAN SAILPLANE DAY AT VARMS 33. JOHN BENTLEY MEMORIAL SCALE AT WESTERN PORT 36. NSWSAS CLUB SCALE AT RICHMND

COMING EVENTS

WESTERN PORT FESTIVAL 2017

Australian Model News is published bi-monthly to feature model aircraft building and flying and to report on aero-modelling events in Australia and New Zealand. . Contributing material and requests for inclusion on the distribution list may be forwarded to — John Lamont Unit 5, 1326 Main Road, Eltham, 3095 Ph: 03 9431 0044 Mob: 0415 384 823 E-mail: [email protected] Visit the AMN website at - https://sites.google.com/site/australianmodelnews/

With our recent run of bad weather continuing it’s been hard to find events that actually took place but, as usual, many people came up with a variety of subjects and I hope that you find the Xmas issue of AMN to be of interest. We continue to lose older modellers as age starts to catch up with them and aeromodelling in Australia suffered another loss with the recent unexpected death of Gary Sunderland, one of our most enthusiastic and capable members. Scale modelling in particular, in all of its forms, will be the poorer for his passing. Gary’s funeral service, held at the Bacchus Marsh Gliding Club, was attended by a large number of peo-ple who knew Gary through his association with gliding, avia-tion history and aeromodelling and was a testimony to the life of a complete aviator. At the end of another year I would like to thank those who sent reports on events, photographs of models and other items of general interest for inclusion in AMN. Without your assistance I would not be able to cover such a wide range of aeromodelling activities and I look forward to your ongoing support into the future. Best wishes for Xmas and may the weather improve in the New Year. John Lamont

On the Cover. Barry Fitzpatrick’s 1/3 scale Piper Super Cub in a realistic setting at the Twin Cities model flying field.

From the Editor


AVRO LANCASTER

Trevor Taylor’s

Trevor Taylor is a member of the Cohuna club and at the recent Old Timer event at his club he brought out his 1/16 scale Lancaster. Under construction for many years the model is now complete and ready for its first flight. The model had its origins in a plan published in “Aeromodeller” maga-zine for a smaller control line model. Trevor scaled his radio controlled version to 1.96m wingspan with his own design scale retracts, and incorporated working flaps and bomb bay doors. Canopies were moulded on his vacuum former using plastic sheet purchased from Bunnings hardware store.

The Lancaster is powered by four OS four stroke engines, the outer pair are 0.20ci. and the inner pair are 0.30ci. These motors provide 3.6kg of thrust and should produce a more than adequate perfor-mance from the 5kg model. As a precaution and to assess the flying characteristics Trevor made a basic airframe of the Lancaster to the same scale and with the same engines installed. This mock-up has been successfully flown, indicat-ing that the true scale model should also perform satisfactorily.


1934 - 2016

Sunderland

Gary

Gary and I were teenagers in the years immediately following WWII and like many others we were influenced by the rapid development of aircraft in that period. We both became model aircraft enthusiasts but, while I remained a modeller, Gary carried his aviation interest into both his private and working life with a long involvement in gliding and powered aircraft. When I retired I returned to modelling in the early 1990’s and joined the Victo-rian Flying Scale Aircraft Association. There I found Gary, also retired and deeply involved in building and flying radio controlled scale models of WWI aircraft. Over the following years we struck up a close friendship and spent many hours discussing aircraft and competing with our models. Gary was a prolific builder of models and, as well as his large scale radio models, he also built and flew smaller free flight scale models and very small and delicate rubber powered indoor scale models. He travelled widely to com-pete with these models and was recognised as an expert in the field of scale modelling, winning many competitions at club, State and National level. In 1996 he was a member of the Australian team that competed at the World Scale Championships in France. Gary was a very knowledgeable aviation historian with a keen interest in the progress of Australian aviation and this lead to the building of models com-memorating milestones in Australian aviation history. He constructed large flying scale models of John Duigan’s homebuilt aircraft, the first powered air-craft to be built and flown in Australia, Harry Houdini’s Voisin that made the first flight of a powered aircraft in Australia and a Bristol Boxkite, the first air-craft flown in Australia by pilots of the Point Cook Flying School. Now it’s well known that large scale models carry many of the traits of the full size aircraft and these models of early 20th century aircraft followed this trend. They were barely flyable and it was only Gary’s skill and perseverance in the face of

many obstacles that saw them take to the air, fly, and land more or less in one piece. Many modellers will remember Gary as the fellow who always set himself up, usually on his own, at the end of the pits where he would spend an inordinate amount of time assembling a pair of large WWI biplanes with their delicate wing structures and spider’s web of bracing wires. After flying the competition, he would then spend a similar amount of time dismantling the models. Gary was usually the first to arrive and the last to leave the flying site! He had his own system for operating his models and those who were permitted to assist had to be very aware of what they could or could not touch while helping. We were often very apprehensive when Gary was starting his large engines as there were usually electrical cables hanging precariously close to the propeller and he did in fact lose a couple of finger joints to contact with fibreglass propellers. Following a bit of surgery and a quick recuperation he was back as keen as ever. Gary was a world renowned designer of WWI model aircraft and for many years contributed working drawings and construction articles to the UK publication “Flying Scale Models” where his designs dominate their plan listings. For my part he was a constant contributor to newsletters that I pro-duced usually sending an envelope addressed to me but with the addition of a German Air Force rank, I can’t imagine what the postman thought as over a short period of time I achieved every rank in the Luftwaffe! Gary never embraced computer technology and I’m sure that he would still have used a slide rule in his work long after everyone else turned to calcula-tors. His correspondence was always by post and hand written and his photographs were always taken using film, requiring much typing and scan-ning to make it usable in our computer driven age. For most of his modelling life he used older style transmitters until lack of service and spare parts finally compelled him to step into the world of computerised transmitters. He never really came to grips with his new radio transmitter and I received many phone calls asking for an interpretation of the contents of the manual. He once asked what was meant by the instruction to re-boot the transmitter and when I explained that he was simply required to turn it off and then on again he indignantly asked “why didn’t the manual just say that”. Gary was a dedicated scratch builder but as ARF scale models became available, and competitions were modified to allow their entry, the opportuni-ty for more flying influenced him to flirt with more modern aircraft. He ac-quired a couple of Spitfires and Me109’s but these streamlined models, with their higher landing speeds and fragile retracting undercarriages, finally got the better of him and he reverted back to his slow but tough WWI biplanes. In recent times he found some monoplanes that he felt would suit his flying style and after constructing a low wing Japanese Nakajima Ki.27 with a fixed undercarriage he went on to build a shoulder wing monoplane Fokker V.21. His last completed model was a Fokker E.V parasol monoplane and at the time of his passing he was back to biplanes, working on a large Italian Caproni tri-motor bomber. Gary was a prolific designer and builder and once told me that he tried to produce at least two new large radio models each year. To most modellers this would be an enormous undertaking but Gary had his design and build-ing procedures honed to a fine art and was able to achieve this formidable task. He was the most enthusiastic modeller that I have known and will be sadly missed at future events by all who were privileged to have known him. John Lamont


Friday 9th September saw Rick and I load up the bus and head for Pinnaroo, a small Wimmera town close to the Victoria / South Austral-ia border about 2hrs drive north of Border Town. The trip up was plagued by heavy rain until about 100k from Pinnaroo where it turned to showers. Saturday the flying was intermittent due to passing showers and cold wind, this gave everyone time to chat with old friends and make new ones. Sunday saw much nicer weather and thus a lot more flying. Despite the weather all there had a great time and it was good to see so many from various Adelaide clubs supporting this small Wimmera club. Thanks also must go to Model Flight for donating the raffle prizes. Pam and Rick Pimblott

PINNAROO

South Australia 10th & 11th September

A number of flyers set up camp at the field. Brian Locket of Strathalbyn MFC with his pulse jet powered model, scratch built from a home design featured in a Youtube video. Fueled by methanol and nitro-methane the plane can each 190 km/h and has a flight time of 3 minutes.


Adrian Merryweather from Strathalbyn MFC with his ARF JSM “Xcalibur” pow-ered by a Kingtech K-100 turbine.

Allan Maddern from Strathalbyn MFC with his ARF Hanger 9 DHC-2 “Beaver”.

Barry Stiles from the Skyhawks club with his ARF Phoenix “Tucano” powered by a DLE 61 petrol engine.

Adam Coy from the Skyhawks club with his ARF Hangar 9 ASW 20 glider. The model spans 4.7m and is powered by an E-flight 60 motor.

Adam Coy also flew this ARF Hanger 9 Pitts M12 powered by a DLE twin cylin-der petrol engine.

Adric Sommer from the Skyhawks club with his ARF Hangar 9 “Corsair” pow-ered by a DLE20 petrol engine.

Richard and Frank Mudge with their ARF Seagull “Cassutt Racer”. Marty Black of Blue Lake Aero Modellers with his ARF “Scanner”.


FLOAT FLY at

ALBURY

Once again Rick and I were back on the road, this time heading to Albury for the annual Float Fly at Lake Hume, and I am increasingly finding that work is interfering with my hobbies. The weather forecast was not the best but we decided we needed a weekend away and arranged for holidays to coincide with this event and “Mosskosh” at Ararat on the next weekend. Friday saw misty rain for part of the trip and when we arrived at the lake about 2:00pm it was very windy and not much was happening. However there were already a lot of people there including a very large contingent from Sydney and its surrounds. Saturday saw early showers and a light breeze with a slight chop on the water. Fortunately, most took the opportunity to fly in the morning as the weather took a turn for the worst in the afternoon with strong winds leading to white caps on the lake. Sunday dawned a much nicer day with clear skies and only a light breeze. With around fifty pilots registered there was a great variety of planes ranging from small ARF foam electrics to craftsman built scratch planes. All told it was another excellent weekend and our thanks go out to the Twin Cities club for staging the event and to Ken and Rob Sargent from Albury RC Models for their sponsorship. Pam and Rick Pimblott

Photography by Ian Kershaw and Rick and Pam Pimblott.


Les Sawyer from Moira (Cobram) with his VQ DHC-2 Beaver powered by a Saito three cylinder four stroke radial engine. Beaver enthusiasts might like to hear the “Beaver Ballad” at — www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w_v0k57KhE

Trevor Pugh from Greensborough MAC with his ARF Piper Cub powered by a OS 120 four stroke engine.

Lyall Tevelen from MARCS won the Pilots Choice Award with his Hanger 9 “Valiant”, powered by a twin cylinder 40cc RCGF engine.

TCMAC President, Graeme Frauenfelder with his scratch built Piaggio P-136L powered by two Saito 100 four stroke engines.

Garry Oakley from Norlunga, South Australia with his Anderson Kingfisher. Model is powered by a Magnum 120 four stroke engine.


Pilots briefing at the commencement of the event. Homes on wheels parked at the Table Top reserve.

The Greensborough MAC contingent with their models.

Graeme Frauenfelder about to fly. The muddy waterline called for shorts and bare feet or gumboots when launching models.

Norm Thompson with his “North Star”, the freestyle decoration on the model was done by his grandchildren.

Bruce Clark from Moira (Cobram) with his “Eindecker” built from a Flair Magnatilla kit and powered by a OS 56 four stroke engine.

TCMAC member Peter Graeber with his scratch built Sikorski S-43 amphibian. The model is powered by two Turnigy 46/50 500VA electric motors.

No identification for this one but it’s a nice simple model for float flying.


Stuart Dawson travelled from the NSW South Coast for the event. VMAA Education Officer, David Nichols with his Schneider Cup racer.

Again no identification for this group with their Anderson Kingfisher. A group from South Australia including MAAA President Neil Tank (centre).

The gathering at the presentation of awards. Lyall Tevelen receiving his Pilots Choice Award from TCMAC President, Graeme Frauenfelder.


22nd - 23rd OCTOBER 2016

ECHUCA

Unfortunately the weather has been against us this year both for Victoria and NSW, so much so that every flying site has been under water or not available to us including Wangarratta where the Eastern State Gas Champs were to be run by SAM1788 in early October. After consultation with the President of 1788 it was agreed to share our Echu-ca comp with them where it was remarkably dry. The forecast for the weekend was for dry weather but a little bit windy but on arriving at the field on Saturday the wind was already past our call off point of 25kph. We hung around to see if it would drop and agreed to have lunch and check again in the after-noon. No luck, it got stronger so Saturday was called off with the agreement that if Sunday was OK we would start at 8:00am, fly three rounds with two to count for all eight events and we would fly open rounds to get them over more quickly. On Saturday night we went to the Echuca Working Man’s Club and had a very good social evening with members from both Victoria and NSW trading ideas and thoughts. We all went home early as we had to be at the field for the 8:00am start. We got to the field to find it was still windy, but not as bad as the previous day, and started ½A with twelve flyers in both I/C and electric. In I/C a new chap from NSW,, Anthony Vicary, came home first with Kevin Fryer second and in electric a new member from Victoria, Gavin Dunn, took first place with Graeme Gulbin from Ballarat a close second. All flyers in this event were from Victoria. Next event was Burford and the although the wind was picking up speed it was agreed that we would keep flying. This event had six entries, four from NSW and two from Victoria, and we saw a lot of carnage. Kevin Fryer's battery went flat midway through the fly-off and he lost the model a long way down wind. Condo Smith's model was caught by the wind as it was landing and broke the fuselage at the tail. The eventual winner was Lyn Clifford, nobody flies better than Lyn and even he landed out on his first flight. It was windy and cold. Next event was duration with six entries in I/C and only one in electric. Robert Taylor had trouble with his radio getting out of range on his first flight so he put it away to try and sort it out later. Pat Keely landed out in the first round and in the second round his model was on the flight line ready to be launched when a gust of wind caught it. Thanks to Robert Taylor he managed to grab it by the fin and push the prop into the ground to stop the motor but unfortunately it broke the fin and put Pat out of the comp. The event was dominated by the spark ignition McCoy 60’s with Peter van de Waterbeemd’s “Bomber” placing first and Kevin Fryer chasing him into second place with his “Cumulus”, Gavin Dunn was the only entry in electric duration, a sad indictment on the electric flyers, and if this keeps up we may have to drop electric events. The next event was Texaco and by now most flyers had had enough of the cold, windy conditions and decided to leave their models in their car’s. Only three people entered the event and the flyers decided that they would just fly one round, longest flight to win. This again was won by Peter van de Waterbeemd with Kevin Fryer coming in only 22 sec behind him. With no entries in electric this ended the events run by SAM1788 for the Eastern State Gas Champs and the only event left that was ‘38 Antique to be run by SAM 600. Only four entries and a one round fly-off saw Kevin Fryer coming first chased by Rob Taylor second and Lyn Clifford third. Despite the very windy and cold weather, not like Echuca at all, the weekend went very well with good natured camaraderie. The catering put on by Fred West and the Echuca club was fantastic and we have learned that dim sims are terrific for lunch. They also had hot dogs, sausages on bread, fruit salad & cream, soft drinks and tea or coffee. We couldn't have been better looked after, in fact I think some of our members go to these events just for the great food. We were made very welcome by all of their members, so thank you again to Fred and your team. Brian Laughton

1/2A Texaco winners from left - Kevin Fryer 2nd, Anthony Vicary 1st, Peter van de Waterbeemd 3rd.

Burford winners, from left - Peter van de Waterbeemd 3rd, Lyn Clifford 1st, Peter Smith 2nd.

Texaco winners, from left - Anthony Vicary 3rd, Peter van de Water-beemd 1st, Kevin Fryer 2nd.

‘38 Antique winners, from left - Lyn Clifford 3rd, Kevin Fryer 1st, Roger Taylor 2nd.

(Photographs by Graeme Gulbin)


Kevin Fryer receives the David Owen Memorial Trophy from SAM 1788 President, Peter van de Waterbeemd.

Peter van de Waterbeemd receives the Eastern States Gas Champs Trophy from SAM 600 CD, Brian Laughton.

Kevin Fryer launching his 1/2A “Cumulus”. Peter and Carol Smith launch their Burford model.

Brian Laughton launching Peter van de Waterbeemd’s 1/2A model. A “Playboy” coming in to land.


Kevin Fryer with his ‘38 Antique winning “Cumulus”. Pat Keely tuning his 1/2A Texaco model.

Peter and Carol Smith at work. Gavin Dunn’s “Hayseed” coming home after winning Electric Duration.

Peter van de Waterbeemd with his Texaco winning “Lanzo Bomber”. Steve Gullock releases Peter van de Waterbeemd’s “Lanzo Bomber”.

Condo Smith launches his 1/2A model. Robert and Trevor Taylor preparing their “Stardust Special”.


COMPETITOR MODEL ENGINE CC/SEC FLY- OFF TOTAL

1. P. van de WATERBEEMD BOMBER SAITO 65 18 711 711

2. K. FRYER CUMULUS FORSTER 99 24 689 689

3. A. VICARY BOMBER OS 61 4/S 21 604 604

TEXACO

COMPETITOR MODEL ENGINE CC/SEC RD. 1 RD. 2 FLY- OFF TOTAL

1. P. van de WATERBEEMD BOMBER McCOY 60 ign 40 420 420 974 1814

2. K. FRYER BOMBER McCOY 60 ign 40 420 420 853 1643

3. L. CLIFFORD RACER YS 63 28 420 420 322 1202

DURATION



2. R. TAYLOR RC 1 ATWOOD 60 95 615 615

3. L. CLIFFORD CADET ATWOOD 60 114 535 535

‘38 ANTIQUE

DURATION (ELECTRIC)

COMPETITOR MODEL FLY- OFF TOTAL

1. G. DUNN STARDUST 1376 1376

2. G. GULBIN STARDUST 1160 1160

3. K. FRYER ATOMISER 875 875

COMPETITOR MODEL FLY– OFF TOTAL

1. G. DUNN HAYSEED 480 480

1/2A TEXACO (ELECTRIC)

COMPETITOR MODEL ENGINE RD. 1 RD. 2 RD. 3 FLY- OFF TOTAL

1. A. VICARY STARDUST COX 415 420 420 398 1238

2. K. FRYER CUMULUS COX 420 420 289 1169

3. P. van de WATERBEEMD STARDUST COX 420 400 420 232 1112

1/2A TEXACO

COMPETITOR MODEL ENGINE CC/SEC RD. 1 RD. 2 RD. 3 FLY- OFF TOTAL

1. L. CLIFFORD CREEP T-2 38 L/O 300 300 1009 1609

2. P. SMITH OLLIE PB 40 282 300 300 843 1443

3. P. van de WATERBEEMD OLLIE BB 38 300 300 - 421 1021

BURFORD

SAM 600 ECHUCA RESULTS


The Grampians Model Flying club recently held their first ever Fun Fly over the weekend of 22nd and 23rd of October 2016. GMFC is a new club formed in April of this year to create a family friendly club that has plenty of social activities at the flying field as well as away from it. We feel that we have achieved this goal as our membership is growing and we are attracting members in a younger age bracket, which looks good for the future of this club. Well on to the fun fly. The weather in Western Victoria has been ex-tremely miserable for months and the forecast for the weekend was for more of the same. Cold, wet and windy is not what we look for in a Fun Fly so will anyone come? Well the answer was yes! they did come (must be mad), not in huge numbers but certainly enough for us to decide that we will do it again. However, I believe that the club will probably look at a different time of year to hold the event in the future. On the Saturday a few of us bravely had a number of flights in conditions that were challenging but cer-tainly flyable. Later in the afternoon a couple of pilots decided to try out our ridge soaring site with their gliders as the wind was blow-ing strongly although not in the correct direc-tion for really good ridge soaring. They did find the lift that they were looking for but it was quite turbulent and not all that easy to manage. However, they enjoyed it all the same. The rest of the day was spent having some more flights as well as catching up with some ex-club mates and other visitors. Saturday night we decided to head for dinner at the Ararat RSL where you always get a great country feed for a very reasonable cost. The visitors were impressed with what the RSL had to offer and said it is a ‘must do’ when they return. Sunday dawned with a slightly better forecast, the wind and showers still persisted but the wind was not as strong and the showers were

much less frequent. The popular place to be was around the fire pit early on in the morning enjoying a cuppa and having a yarn with fellow pilots, which really is a big part of any Fun Fly. More people started to arrive and a final count showed that we had pilots from seven differ-ent clubs as well as visitors who were very interested in joining our club and taking up modelling. Flying began and it was great to see many different aircraft flying from our field and sampling what we have to offer. One of the first impressions for visitors is that we have a fairly large tree in the middle of the paddock that we use. Not a problem for us as we are all experienced and are not concerned about it, but for new pilots it gave them a little extra to think about. The club will change where the runways are presently mown so that the tree is taken out of the circuit in the future. Flying continued almost nonstop for the rest of

the day with only a brief pause to enjoy the excellent lunch pre-pared by our catering department (a big thankyou ladies) at a modest cost. With all fed we were back into the flying until it came time for our visitors to start packing up and head for home. With the farewells com-pleted it was time to reflect on what a great weekend was had by all, giving us plenty of

hope for the future and for holding more events like this. The Grampi-ans Model Flying Club would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the people that came and made this a great little Bush Bash Fun Fly and to also thank our members that helped with all the behind-the-scenes tasks. The club would also like to thank the local businesses from Ararat that support-ed us, particularly for the purchasing of the little things like food and drink for the weekend. If you are looking for a low cost, low stress, great weekend away with lots of fun and flying keep the Grampians Model Flying Club in mind and watch this space for our next Fun Fly to be held in 2017. Tim Jones

FUN FLY


The GMFC field and surrounding area. There appears to be plenty of space for all sizes and types of model.

This lone tree in the middle of the field will not be in play when the flight circuit is redefined.

The car parking area is not too far from the flight line.

The cool weather called for adequate clothing.

Some camped at the field overnight.


CLASS 36″/44″

CLASS 48″

INTERNATIONAL

TOMBOY

POSTAl RALLY


It is with great pleasure that I report on the 8th edition of TOMBOY RALLY P.C. As usual, the contest starts on the 1st of June and ends on the 31st of May. Our never ending contest is now in its 9th edition, which obviously ends on 31st of May 2017. This year saw a good participation of models: 15 from Australia, 10 from Italy, 2 from France, 1 from Switzerland, 1 from Argentina, 1 from Slovakia and 1 from Great Britain. The participating models were divided into two categories: 1. 24 models in 36/44″ wingspan. 2. 5 models in 48″ wingspan. Moreover, a model was awarded a Free Flight prize and, for the first time, a prize was given also in “Seaplane version”. TOMBOY RALLY 36″ The winner in our “classic” event this time is Brian Deason, a well known and skilled Australian modeller who won in both the 36/44″ and

48″ event, as he also did in 2012/2013. His best flight was on April 11th , 2016 with a flying time of 26min 4sec, surpassing his record set in 2012/2013. For this reason, the president of L’AQUILONE SAM 2001, Paolo Montesi, decided to give a special prize to Brian, who is the first modeller to win both events in two contests. A Nieuport 11 Sterling Kit is going to fly to

Brian! Enjoy your prize with the compliments of all SAM 2001 mem-bers! The second place was shared by Gianfranco Lusso, from Switzerland, and Ray Silbereisen, from Australia, with a time of 22min 35sec. For several years, Ray took part in the SAM 270 TOM-BOY RALLY event held in Oakford field and organized by SAM 2001’s friend, Paul Baartz. Rod McDonald placed 4th with18min 15sec (remember this was Rod’s second best time because his best time was not eligible due to landing out-side of the area) Greg McLure placed 5th with a time of 13min 54sec, Mike Butcher placed 9th with a time of 9min 50sec, Ian Dixon placed

10th with a time of 9min 25sec, Hans Van Leeuwen was in15th

place with a time of 6min 34sec (44″ IC powered), Chris Edwards placed 21st with a time of 3min 22sec and Rod McDonald also placed 22nd with a time of 2min 05sec (EL powered). Kevin Hop-per did not register a flight, but I am sure will do better next time.

Many thanks to all of my Down Under friends. Now, about the other equal 2nd placegetter, my friend Gianfranco Lusso. During the winter months of 2015 he had a health problem due a wrong diagnosis by a doctor, which left him “out of order” up to April 2016. So Gianfranco, deciding that he just had to to take part, packed his Tomboy and drove to Club Modeliste Pais de Gex – France

where he made his best flight. Dete Hasse, from Australia, gained 3rd place with a time of 19min 24sec, with his electric powered Tomboy. A good time, Dete, not the best of ever, but a good time. Stephane Courvoi-sier from France, placed 6th with a time of 12min 25sec. Stephane is a member of CMPDP where he has

always used RTF models for flying but after a look at the Tomboy of Gianfranco Lusso, he decided to build a model in the old fashioned way. I think he actually did a good job and I hope that Stephane will take part in TRPC for many years. Seventh placed was Pavel Rabec from Slovakia with a time of 12min 22sec. He flew on April 30th 2016 at Mocenok airfield with a Cox 0.49 powered model. Pavel made two attempt with his pretty red and yellow Tomboy on a sunny day. Fortu-nately, he found strong thermals and, as the photo he sent me demon-strates, he needed a “helper” to retrieve the model in the grass. Pavel, your dog is…GREAT! Eleventh place goes to an old friend of the contest, Mike Walsh from Australia, with a time of 8min 46sec. He took part in the contest with Jim Hardy who placed 19th with a time of 3min 48sec. Both flew IC powered models. Jim wrote - “Curzio, I have to report a rather dismal result for our members in the Calvert Radio Aero Modellers Society's entry in the Tomboy Rally. Despite the numbers increasing by 50% ( from1 to 2 ) the flight times did not reflect such a dramatic increase.

Entrants were Mick Walsh AUS 29315, SAM 1788 member, flight time 8 minutes 46 seconds, Timer W. Hathaway and Jim Har-dy AUS 9881 3 min 48 sec, Timer P. Nightingale. Thanks for organising a most interesting competi-tion.”

Thanks to you, Jim and welcome to our Tomboy Rally PC. I hope you will have fun with our Tomboy Rally the next year too. I want to give a special thanks to Bernard Deraudre from France (placed 16th with a time of 5min 49sec), who spread the word about our contest among French modellers with a special issue of his bulletin dedicated to OT modellers. Many thanks Bernard from Gianfran-co and myself. And now talking about Italians participating in the competition. Giancarlo Di Chiara who placed 8th is the first in rank with a time of 11min 30sec gained during a F/ F meeting held in Campo Felice (near l’Aquila) where he helped Giancarlo Wessely (12th place), who took part in the meeting with his Lulu. Both found the time to try their electric powered Tomboy.

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Silvano Lustrati placed 13th, Santoni Curzio placed 14th, Ugo Baldari placed 17th, Maurizio Sagnotti placed 18th, Eros Cavallaro placed 21st. And now it is time to talk about a contestant of whom all the other Italian competitors are proud, Simone Baldari. Simone, the son of Ugo Baldari, is six years old and a primary schoolboy who has always shown a great interest in his father’s hobby, so Ugo taught him to fly. Simone has shown a particular interest in his father’s Tomboy 36″ powered by a Barbini B38 diesel which Ugo often allowed him to fly so I thought of giving the Tomboy of my friend Valeriano Tascone, who died some months ago, to Simone. I am sure that my friend Valeriano would have smiled from paradise, when Simone received the model. Go Simone, make this Tomboy fly high!!!!! TOMBOY RALLY 48″ Fortunately this year saw a good participation of 48″wingspan en-trants. I am very happy about it because I think that the enlarged ver-sion of the Tomboy is a great model, very stable and usable in most weather condition. The winner of this edition is Brian Deason (time 37min 08sec) who I want to compliment on this great result, although it was not his best score in this event as Brian won the 48” wingspan event in 2012-2013 edition with a time of 41min 29sec. Second placed was Les Davis (time18min34sec),another Australian modeller and Tomboy Rally’s friend, who tried to surpass ”Superman” Brian, but without success. Good luck for next year Les!

Third place went to Ian Dixon, also from Aus-tralia. Ian was participating in the 48″wingspan event for the first time and made his at-

tempt at Oakford in poor weather conditions. I hope Ian will keep using the enlarged version. Fourth placed was Giancarlo Di Ciara, from Italy with a time of 7min 31sec and then fifth placed Santoni Curzio 6min 48sec. All contestants used electric powered models. DAVID BAKER F/ F SPECIAL PRIZE For the second time the David Baker Prize, reserved for F/ F IC pow-ered 36″ Tomboys, was won by John Andrews, a great F/ F modeller and New Clarion Editor. John flew during a Sunday meeting held on May 15th 2016, where he also participated in the Mini-vintage event with his “Pinocchio”. John gained a time of 3min 30sec “Not too good I’m afraid as the model was damaged before I could do better” he wrote. His 16 years old Tomboy was seriously dam-aged on landing after the second flight. The prize this year is a kit of “Ascender”. Many thanks John. This year I took part in a F/ F

event during the annual Tomboy Rally held near Rome May, 21th 2016 (with a time of 2min 40sec), where I used the oldest of the two Tomboys of my friend Valeriano Tascone. As it was a sunny morning I decided to switch off the radio, fill the tank of the Irvine Mills 0.75, and launch the model nose into the wind. The Tomboy flew steadily, turn-ing slightly to the left, and landed on the grass with no damage. Truly, that flight was the best flight of this year. Many thanks, Valeriano. VIC SMEED SPECIAL PRIZE

Horacio Banus, from Argentina, is the first winner of the VIC SMEED Special Prize, reserved for rise off water models. This special prize was suggested directly by Vic Smeed to Gianfranco Lusso and myself. . Unfortunately the flight was not perfect due an incorrect CG. however he deserved the Special Prize of a T-shirt with the SAM 2001 logo on the front. Your prize was sent last week, so it is going to arrive.

A SPECIAL WISH I want to thank our New Zealand friends of the S.I.G. M.F.N.Z. who are also organizing a Tomboy Postal Contest open to any modeller who is a member of a recognized club in a foreign country. The con-test is for the 36″ wingspan version only, divided into IC and electric classes. The rules applied in the Electric class are the same as SAM 2001 Tomboy Rally in IC class, except that it allows for only a 360 mAH-2S battery. Your best timed flight from 1/1/ 2016 up to 31/12/2016 must be submitted by e-mail to Allen Teal at [email protected]. or to Wayne Cartwright. Finally, as in every year, I would like to give a warm thank you to all Tomboy Rally friends who took part in this years event and also to those who could not attend the contest this year, such as: Stewart Mason, Mick Walsh, Graham Main, Manuel Rojo, Bob Slater, Zdenek Slapnicka and Mark Venter. Good luck to all and have fun with the SAM 2001 TOMBOY RALLY. Gianfranco Lusso and Curzio Santoni


The Vintage Aviator Masterton

New Zealand

In October I visited the Vintage Aviator at Masterton, New Zealand with Kiwi free flighter Paul Squires, as part of a NZ MG Car Club run. The Vintage Aviator is a Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings) initiative and complements the excellent display he has on the south island at Blenheim. Only twenty five aircraft are exhibited at any one time in the Masterton display. There are seventy stored there, all in excellent condition, and all are flown by a team of twelve experienced pilots.

Most planes are reconstructions, not restorations, which means that they are new aircraft built from original plans and using authentic ma-terials. They leave the factory as good as, maybe even better than, those that left the original factories a century ago. They have an inter-national market for their skills in building these extraordinary aircraft. I took a few photos, I hope you like them. Malcolm Campbell

General view of the aircraft on display. Nieuport II Of the Italian Corpo Aeronautico Militare.

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The BE2c was the first British military aircraft. Royal Aircraft Factory FE.2b.

A german Albatros D.Va. Airco DH.9A with a Liberty V-12 engine.

Royal Aircraft Factory SE.5a. German Fokker D.VIII.

Sopwith Camel. This Curtiss F8C Helldiver was built as a prop for the 2005 King Kong movie.


Sopwith Triplane. Sopwith Snipe.

BE.2d with a Lewis gun mounted for the observer in the front cockpit. Fokker D.VIII cockpit.

Lewis gun mounted on the top wing of the Nieuport II. The Spandau LMG 08 /15 machine guns on the Fokker D.VIII.

The pilot’s cockpit on the BE.2d. The French designed Gnome 9B-2 cylinder rotary engine was built under license in Great Britain and powered many of the early British aircraft.


SCRATCH / KIT BUILT SCALE RALLY

at P&DARCS

This event came about through the efforts of Andrew Smallridge and Kevin Chiselett of SC Models, together with the strong support of Ivan Chiselett, the members of the P&DARCS club and numerous spon-sors. Considering the large number of ARF models usually flown these days at large rallies it seemed to be a considerable risk setting up a two day event that was limited to scale models built from scratch or from a commercial kit. Advertising started early to allow adequate time for the preparation of suitable models and while the weather on the opening Saturday proved less than suitable for flying, Sunday although a little windy, was warm, sunny and quite flyable. Forty pilots were registered and sixty two models were presented indicating that, despite the prolifera-tion of ARF’s, there is still a strong interest among modellers in con-structing their own aeroplanes. With the wind reasonably strong but straight down the strip most of the models were flown, the standout being Bairnsdale club’s Brian Hutchinson with his large PBY Catalina and his Hawker Sea Fury with its hydraulically operated folding wings. Mike Farnan of Model Engines resurrected his father Tony’s large scale B-24 Liberator which has not been seen for many years. The Liberator has been re-engined with four OS petrol engines replacing the 0.91 glow plug engines, the radio gear has been updated to 2.4 GHz operation and it flew as well as ever. Also on display, but not yet ready to fly, was the very large model of a Convair B-36 Peacemaker built by Andrew Smallridge, Kevin Chiselett and Ivan Chiselett. Powered by six electric motors in pusher configura-

tion and with four electric turbofans in the two outer nacelles it is ex-pected to fly early next year. It was a successful event despite the less than welcoming weather and may become an annual event in future years. Excellent prizes were given to the winners in the various categories together with a continuous draw among the participating flyers for useful items of modelling equipment.

Brian Hutchinson receiving the Pilots Choice trophy for his Catalina from VMAA President Greg Lepp. Brian also received a Hitec 4-place charger donated by Model Engines.


Brian Hutchinson’s Catalina and Sea Fury. The Catalina is 4.3m wingspan and powered by two DLE35 petrol engines. The Fury spans 2.6m and is powered by a 110cc 3W Twin.

Peter Ralston’s Hawker Typhoon was built from the Brian Taylor plan. The model has a wingspan of 1.8m and is powered by an OS 155 four stroke engine.

David Anderson was awarded the prize for the best diorama which featured a WWI hangar with ground crew working on Lewis guns and running up a rotary engine complete with sound effects. Aircraft are David’s DH.2 in the front with the fuselage of his RE.8 at the rear.

Anthony Mott was another to resurrect an older model, his Blohm & Voss Bv.141 had not flown for many years but performed satisfactorily after a bit of refurbish-ment. Model spans 2.9m and is powered by a 70cc Seidel seven cylinder radial engine.


Mario Schembri’s Miles Hawk Speed Six is from the plan by UK designer Philip Kent. The model spans 2.2m and is powered by an OS 155 four stroke engine.

Shane Orchard’s Messerschmitt Me.109 in Swiss colours is a Derek Micko design. Electric powered it has a wingspan of 2.0m.

Peter Harris’ model of the Smith Miniplane is an own design spanning 1.7m and powered by a 64cc DLA Twin.

Greg Mitchell’s Fly Baby is 2.0m wingspan. David Nichol’s DH. Chipmunk is from a NZ Airsail kit. The model spans 1.9m and is powered by an ASP 61 four stroke engine.

Bob Hulett’s Stinson Reliant is finished in the colours of a Royal Navy aircraft. The model is from a Top Flite kit, spans 2.5m and is powered by a DLE 30 petrol engine.

Neil Addicott’s Grumman Panther is 1.8m wingspan and powered by a 14kg thrust RT Hammer turbine. His Zero is enlarged from a Dave Platt plan spans2.2m and is powered by a 70cc OS seven cylinder radial engine.


Brian Evans’ Handley Page Hampden under construction. A rare bird that I suspect would have many at a loss to name.

Tom Prosser’s Comper Swift is an own design with a wingspan of 2.13m and powered by Saito 180 four stroke engine. His Pace Spirit is also an own design based on an Aeromodeller 3-view. It spans2.36m and is powered by a 44cc Tartan Twin two stroke petrol engine.

The Convair B-36 Peacemaker of Andrew Smallridge, Kevin Chiselett and Ivan Chiselett. The model spans 5.83m and is electric powered.

Terry Pollock‘s DH.87 Hornet Moth and Miles Magister. The Hornet Moth is a Mike Smart design, spans 2.0m and is powered by a Saito 91 four stroke engine. The Magister is from a Dennis Bryant plan, spans1.78m and is powered by a Saito 65 four stroke engine.

Mike Farnan’s large scale B-24 Liberator in flight.

David Anderson (left) was the winner of the trophy for Best Diorama and also a Proxxon Saw Bench donated by My Tool Store.

Anthony Monteleone received the NFG Trophy and an airbrush compressor donated by TT Insurance.

Neil Addicott and his son were happy runners-up for Best Model with their Zero, receiving a deluxe 1/5 scale pilot from SC Models.


5th - 6th November 2016

COBRAM

Once again we were off to Cohuna, one of our favourite flying fields. We don't know how long we will have this site because of the conflict with the full size aircraft, but this time the council closed the airport for full size planes from 9:00am Saturday to 5:00pm Sunday and for this we were very grateful. Saturday morning dawned very windy as predicted by the weather bureau. It was far too windy to fly and our 7 m/sec limit was passed many times over five minutes so it was decided we would hang about until at least after lunch and see what it was like then. Again the Cohuna boys put on a terrific lunch but after lunch the wind got worse so it was decided to call it off for Saturday, start at 8:00am Sunday and try to fly all comps over three rounds with two to count. Sunday dawned calm but very quickly became windy. We got 1/2A into the air and found it to be very choppy which made landing a bit tricky. The pilots did a marvelous job of landing in without damage and this was the start of the Cohuna boys comeback with Lynn Clifford taking first place in I/C and his son–in-law, Gavin Dunn, taking out electric. The next event was Burford and the wind was very unpredictable. Not many entered this event so it was decided to just have a fly-off, the Snake Valley wonder, Steve Gullock, winning with a new model called “Ticlone”? The next event was Duration with eight entries and it was still windy. This event attracted a new member from Bendigo in Stuart Sinclair, the son of one of our old timer flyers the late Graeme Sinclair. Stuart was flying his father’s Dallaire but he was plagued with engine trouble, as Steve would say — “bloody Cox’s”. Cohuna club member Rob Taylor took first place without a fly-off as, with only two in the fly-off, Steve broke his model on landing in the heat and couldn't fly. It’s good to see Rob back on top again after the rotten luck he has had in the last twelve months, Gavin Dunn took out the electric event in a two man race. The next event was Texaco, an uneventful event with no broken mod-els or out landings. Again the Cohuna boys reigned supreme taking out the first two placings in I/C and Roger Mitchell taking out electric. Our last event for the day was ‘38 Antique and with only four entries it was again agreed to fly it as a fly-off. Kevin Fryer was the winner and with no more damaged models we finished another weekend competi-tion at Cohuna. Again we would like to thank all of the Cohuna boys for making us feel so welcome and feeding us so well. Brian Laughton

Competitors in 1/2A Texaco.

Trevor Taylor releasing Roger Taylor’s RC1 in ‘38 Antique.

Winner of the Burford event, Steve Gullock with his Ciclone.

(Photographs by Graeme Gulbin)



1. L. CLIFFORD RACER ENYA 60 18 780 1980

2. R. TAYLOR AIRBORN OS 61 18 774 1974


RD. 1

600

600

600

RD. 2

545

600

600

RD. 3

600

TEXACO

COMPETITOR MODEL ENGINE CC/SEC RD. 1 RD. 2 FLY- OFF TOTAL

1. R. TAYLOR PLAYBOY YS 63 28 420 375 840

2. S. GULLOCK PLAYBOY ENYA 30 25 245 420 DNF 840

3. K. FRYER CUMULUS McCOY 60 ign 40 406 420 826

RD. 3

420

420

379

DURATION



2. R. TAYLOR RC 1 ATWOOD 60 95 653 653

3. S. GULLOCK STICKLAS GB 205 386 386

‘38 ANTIQUE

DURATION (ELECTRIC)

1/2A TEXACO (ELECTRIC)

COMPETITOR MODEL ENGINE RD. 1 RD. 2 RD. 3 FLY- OFF TOTAL

1. L. CLIFFORD STARDUST COX 420 420 632 1472

2. K. FRYER CUMULUS COX 348 420 420 584 1424

3. B. LAUGHTON ALBATROSS COX 420 420 505 1345

1/2A TEXACO

COMPETITOR MODEL ENGINE CC/SEC RD. 1 RD. 2 RD. 3 FLY- OFF TOTAL

1. S. GULLOCK CICLONE BB 38 479 479

2. K. FRYER ATOMISER PB 40 340 340

3. B. LAUGHTON DIXIELANDER PB 40 329 329

BURFORD

SAM 600 COHUNA RESULTS

COMPETITOR MODEL CC/SEC RD. 1 RD. 2 RD. 3 FLY- OFF TOTAL

1. G. DUNN STARDUST 600 600 1472 2672

2. P. MILLER FOX 107 600 600 1351 2551

3. B. LAUGHTON ALBATROSS 600 600 1228 2428

COMPETITOR MODEL CC/SEC RD. 1 RD. 2 FLY- OFF TOTAL

1. G. DUNN HAYSEED 35 490 600 1200

2. R. MITCHELL LIL DIAMOND 35 301 301

RD. 3

600

COMPETITOR MODEL CC/SEC RD. 1 RD. 2 RD. 3 FLY- OFF TOTAL

1. R. MITCHELL BOMBER 600 600

TEXACO (ELECTRIC)

Brian Laughton releasing Kevin Fryer’s Cumulus in ‘38 Antique

‘38 Antique winners, from left - Roger Taylor 2nd, Kevin Fryer 1st, Steve Gullock 3rd.

Duration winners, from left - Kevin Fryer 3rd, Roger Taylor 1st, Steve Gullock 3rd.

1/2A Texaco winners, from left - Kevin Fryer 2nd, Lyn Clifford 1st, Brian Laughton 3rd.


AUTRALIAN SAILPLANE DAY at VARMS

Following the successful event back in April, Geoff Hearn organised another Aussie sailplane day at VARMS late in November. I had two events to cover on that day so I was only able to stay at VARMS for the morning before moving on to Westernport, another 50k’s to the south east. With the weather promising to be fine and warm more models arrived in the afternoon and I will present an additional report by Geoff’ in the next issue of AMN.

A Hearn’s Hobbies “Eagle Mk.II” by Ron Hickman. Ron scaled up the model from 1.8m to 2.6m wingspan and added an electric motor and undercarriage for ease of flying.

Ron Hickman’s Hearn’s Hobbies “Eagle” in flight. A very lightweight structure in this model.

Darryl Cope with his scaled up version of the Hearn’s Hobbies “Eagle”. Darryl’s model is also scaled up from the original 1.8m to 2.4m.


Kevin Howard from Ballarat with his Aeroflyte “Brolga Mk.II”. VARMS president, Col Collyer, with his 150% scaled up version of the Hearn’s Hobbies “Eagle Mk.I”.

Thomas Rawlins with his Geoff Pentland designed “Sunfloat” glider. Geoff designed this model in three sizes, this being the largest version.

Lew Rodman with his scaled up version of the Aeroflyte “Nimbus”. The original “Nimbus” was a small model of around 0.6m wingspan and Lew’s version has been enlarged to 2.3m.


Dion Martin with his scaled up version of the Central Aircraft “Snowgoose”. The model is 3.16m wingspan and electric powered.

Thomas Rawlins with his Hearn’s Hobbies “Whistler” hand launched glider.

The original Central Aircraft “Snowgoose” had a wingspan of only 0.6m. Hang-ing in the VARMS clubhouse among many other vintage gliders is this twice size version

Thomas Rawlins brought two models of this Geoff Pentland design. The large one is a “Sunfloat” while the smaller model is a “Sunfloat Baby”. There is also a small hand launched version of the design.


Western Port MAC John Bentley Memorial

The idea of forming a club in the Western Port area occurred in the early months of 1990 when John Bentley, very soon to retire, came upon Geoff Tuck flying a radio controlled model aircraft on the wide area of the Hastings foreshore and expressed a wish to learn how to fly one of these models. Geoff placed an advertisement in the local paper calling for persons interested in forming a model aircraft club and convened a meeting to be held in the pre–school centre in Has-tings on the 9th of March 1990. With only ten people at the meeting, only three committee members were deemed necessary, they being President Geoff Tuck Secretary John Bentley Treasurer Brad Crossfield The name of the new club was decided on as Western Port / MARCS, being under the guiding hand of the MARCS committee until we got on our feet. Geoff made a representation to the then Hastings Shire Council, actu-ally speaking at a council meeting and asking for some council land that we could use as a flying field. Council duly complied, and our first field was at paddocks on Stoney Point Rd. in Crib Point. Due to prob-lems with other occupants of the flying field area, we had to leave this site and endeavoured to set up another field on Royal Australian Navy land in Somers Road. This did not prove to be suitable, due to the dense prickly gorse harming the aircraft, and Ed Crow came into the

picture, offering the use of some of his leased grazing land in the pad-dock where the club now exists. On April 17th, 1991 it was decided to change the club name to West-ern Port Model Aircraft Club and no longer operate under the MARCS banner. The beginning of 1991 saw the first part of our clubhouse constructed, the metal sheeting being supplied at no cost by Lysaghts in Hastings. A brick B-B-Q was also constructed from donated bricks laid by members. The end of 1991 saw the completion of our club-house up to its current size and complete with verandah, etc. December 1991 saw the club join forces with Flinders Lions Club to put on “THE BIG SHOW”, a huge display of all aspects of our hobby on the Hastings foreshore. It was open to the paying public and raised quite a large amount of money for charity. April 1994 was an other highlight in the club’s activities when a small contingent of members took three identical model aircraft all the way to West. Australia. One model, piloted by Peter Garoni, was flown back to the South Australian border without landing for fuel, thus achieving a new World Record for long distance flight of 493 kms. On the passing of John Bentley a Memorial Scale Day was created and this is the event that I attended at the end of November.

Neville Bird came across from the Nepean club and flew this Tiger Moth built by former Wester Port member, the late David Feather.


Dominic Biviano’s Pilatus PC-21 is a Sebart ARF. Wingspan is 2.1m and it’s powered by a DLE 55 petrol engine.

A nice trio of scale helicopters by Franz Romano.

Brian Holmes’ Fokker D.VII is a Flair kit. Model is 1.53m wingspan and powered by a Saito 80 four stroke engine.

Another Brian Holmes model, this 1/4 scale Fokker E.III is powered by a Saito 125 four stroke engine.

Alistair Cox’s scratch built Percival Mew Gull is 1.8m wingspan and powered by a YS 140 four stroke engine.

No owners name for this Great Planes ARF Super Stearman about to touch down after a nice landing approach.

Wayne Gorsuck built this 2.74m wingspan stand off scale model of the Messer-schmitt Me.321 glider from scratch.

Michael Caddy’s Fairchild PT-19 is a Phoenix ARF powered by an OS 91 two stroke engine.


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Michael Bourn’s large clipped wing Piper J3 Cub spans 3m and is powered by a flat twin cylinder two stroke engine.

Wally Burston also came from the Nepean club with his 1/4 scale Flair kit Stampe SV.4 powered by an OS 120 four stroke engine.


NSWSAS CLUB SCALE

at

RICHMOND

The last NSWSAS event for the year was held at the Richmond model field (NSW) with blue sky and variable winds which changed directions ever hour on the hour. The event was carried over from the day before as winds were too strong to fly. Despite this, scale entries were strong-er than expected and shows signs that scale is very much alive. This was a low key, one day event with a total of sixteen entries. Two classes were run, Advanced and Open, Advanced being to the builder of the model rule with the models from a kit, plans or scratch built , while Open class is more for ARF’S and for the newcomers to scale. Results Advanced 1. Chris White 2. Alf Williams 3. Graham Harrod The flying standard was very good with many fliers achieving high flight scores. Alex O’Connor from the Newcastle area flew in his first contest with an all-black Fokker Triplane built from a Flair kit. Thank you to Bob and Paul who judged all day and the to the Rich-mond club members who gave up their field for the day and cooked at lunch time break. The next event will be in the ACT in February 2017. Chris White

Open 1. Anthony Ogle 2. Benjamin Burrell 3. Graham Harrod

Chris White was the winner in Advanced Class with his large scale Corby Starlet

Alex O’Connor with his Fokker Dr.I built from a Flair kit.


Alf Williams with his new DH.82 Tiger Moth. Graham Harrod flew this large Vought F4U Corsair.

Graeme Brown with his Douglas SBD-1Dauntless. James Price flew his Piper J3 Cub.

Graham Harrod also flew this DHC-I Chipmunk. Bob Pearce with his DH Gipsy Moth.


WESTERN PORT FESTIVAL 2017

The 48th annual Western Port Festival is to be held in Hastings on the Foreshore over the weekend of 24th, 25th and 26th of February 2017 It is about bringing the Western Port community together for what is said to be one of the largest events on the Mornington Peninsula and as part of this celebration of community spirit the Western Port Model Aircraft Club will be putting on its annual display to the public over two days, with the support of other local model aircraft clubs. Friday night, the 24th, after dark night fly…..LED’S abound with the antics of the aircraft and the buzzing of electric motors, a spectacular and almost magical event, especially for the kids, big and small. Saturday, the 25th, the main display. Static as well as flying being the order of the day, Helicopters, Jets, War Birds, Civil Aircraft & RC Tanks, just to make things different. A celebration of not just local community, but also the R/C modelling community. For many the highlight is the mock battle sequence, with ooh’s and ah’s resonating in the air well after the smoke has dissipated. We promise something that has never before been seen on the peninsula. So come along... there is something for the whole family, not just big boy’s and their toys but other exciting events, amusements and activities.

Mark it in your calendar - 24 & 25 February 2017, Melways ref: 154.K9


General Meetings of the Victorian Flying Scale Aircraft Association are held bi-monthly on the first Thursday of the even months at the Field Naturalist Club of Victoria, 1 Gardenia Street, Blackburn. Visitors are always welcome and a highlight of meetings is the presentation of new models as they are constructed, and discussion on building techniques by members.

The VFSAA Calendar of events is available on the VFSAA web-site at http://vfsaa.org.au/

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