No 34
May 5, 2001
Hi
friends,
NORM
KIRTON has sent a full report on the Australian National Championships
which finished just one week ago as I put this issue on the web - you
can't get much more up to date than that! Although the report will
obviously be of special interest to all Aussie model pilots, I hope that
you will all find it interesting to read about a huge 7-day competition such
as this, covering so many disciplines within the model flight world - I
certainly did. Norm has a huge gallery of pictures of the event which
includes models of shapes and sizes that I didn't know existed and I
have selected just a few to accompany his report, which is on club
scene. Thanks, Norm, for all the work you put into the report and
setting out the full results, and congratulations on your own successes
in the competitions.
If
you have a particularly nice picture of aviation interest - model or
full-size - that you think would look good on the new opening cover
page, please send it to me. If it's not one of your own photos, though,
please make sure I won't be infringing copyright if I reproduce it on ModelFlight.
I don't
believe in fairies, luck (good or bad) or things that make other things go bump in the night, but
there might just have been a gremlin or two loose on our flying field recently!
Six out of the nine of us who were flying had problems of varying degrees - Dean
stalled his Tiger Trainer on its maiden flight, Neil crashed his beautiful new
Cap 232, Chris's Comet destroyed its wing on a tree that got in the way, the
ailerons on Pete's Cub locked up (just saved by Martin who landed it on rudder
only), Tony's delta wing took several nose dives and Colin stamped on his
Prankster and, although I can't swear to this, I believe I saw our venerable Chairman
abort a take-off as he detected a set-up problem just in time! I managed a
decent flight with three fairly good take-offs and landings - I must have been
lucky!
Regards to all,
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The
background image on the opening screen is another of
Argentinian aviation artist Carlos Adrián Garcia's paintings -
this one is of a Mentor. Click the mini-pic on the left if you want to get back to the cover
page or the thumbnail on the right if you would like to view the
image. There is a link to Carlos' website on the links and post box
pages of this issue. These images are ©Carlos A Garcia and must not be
reproduced without his permission. |
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