club scene

Tell us all about your model flying club and report on your activities. E-mail me with some idea of the sort of facilities you have, size of membership, types of model flown, social activities, reports of special events, site availability, guest arrangements, frequency of meetings, location, or anything else you can think to mention. Pictures will also be most welcome, and if you want to send me pictures by conventional post, my address now appears on home page. If your club has a website, let me know the address and ModelFlight will pay you a virtual visit!

are again running a

de-luxe trip

to the

Dortmund Model Show, Germany

leaving Southampton early on

Tuesday 16th April 2002

and returning on

Saturday 20th April 2002

Accommodation at a top 4-star hotel
for just £180, all inclusive!

To book or reserve a place, call Tony Baker

on 02380 233605

continues to patiently wait for ATS to vacate their Thruxton site, near Andover, UK, before the club can officially open. Latest prediction is that ATS will move off to their new location at Draycott around November 1st.

The current issue of RCM&E, with a cover date of OCTOBER and published 14th SEPTEMBER, still reports the ATS move as 1st AUGUST! That's an interesting clue as to just how long a lead-time these magazines have for submission of copy.

If you want to know more about the new club, visit their web site at www.jbmfc.fsnet.co.uk

NEW SLOPE SOARING SITE DISCOVERED?

Earlier this year, a small group from the Test Valley Model Flying Club visited the historic Brooklands Motor Racing Circuit, ostensibly to attend a meeting of the Gas Turbine Builders Association, as reported on ModelFlight #38. Evidence has now come to light, however, to suggest that they may have had a hidden agenda - to explore the use of the site for what some might consider less glorious activities. Here we see Gordon, Neil and Pete, as they called themselves, scaling the slopes of the infamous cambered bend of the Brooklands circuit, whilst our second shot clearly shows 'Gordon' doing a mock launch of a model slope soarer as 'Pete' and 'Neil' skulk off into the bushes to avoid the prying lens of the ModelFlight camera.