Issue No.34 AUSTRALIAN MODEL NEWS - B.R.C.A.C

AUSTRALIAN MODEL NEWS

Issue No.34

June 2015

Australian Model News page 2

Contents

3. IVOR F. STOWE 1925 - 2015 4. VICTORIAN CONTROL LINE AEROBATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS 8. AUSTRALIAN MASTERS 10. SCALE FLYING AT YARRA VALLEY 12. SAM 600 AT CANOWINDRA 14. GARY SUNDERLAND’S SOPWITH TABLOID 16. WAGGA WWII AND MILITARY SCALE 18. MODEL ENGINES “SCANNER CHALLENGE” AT BENDIGO 20. TWIN CITIES AUTUMN SCALE RALLY 23. TONY SMALL’S PARTENAVIA P.68 24. 68TH NATIONALS RADIO CONTROL SCALE 27. SAM 600 VICTORIAN/STH. AUST. STATE CHAMPIONSHIP 30. AUSTRALIAN FREE FLIGHT SOCIETY CHAMPIONSHIPS 33. MODEL ENGINES FLY- IN 36. VICSCALE AT P&DARCS

COMING EVENTS

RICHMOND SCALE RALLY 2015

VMAA TROPHY 2015

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Our late Summer / early Autumn weather wasn’t always as good as we have come to expect but three events that I attended through April / May were blessed with near perfect flying conditions. Despite the fine weather the attendance at all three was much less than expected given that two were high profile annual Fly-In events and the other a scale flying competition, open to all modellers. There may be other reasons for this poor attendance but my feeling is that aeromodelling has changed and, where model-lers were once prepared to travel to events to participate or compete, they now prefer to take their model to their local field, have a few flights, and return home rather than travel a longer distance to another field to fly with strangers. This reluctance to travel deprives modellers of the opportuni-ty to meet and enjoy the company of fellow enthusiasts and encourages the “closed shop” attitude of some clubs where visitors are made to feel less than welcome by the strict lim-its on the number of times a visitor may fly at their field with-out being required to take up membership. Why not give some thought to widening your horizon, spreading your wings, and taking the opportunity to meet new people at different venues. You might find it to be an enlightening and very pleasant experience. John Lamont.

On the Cover The Me.323 “Gigant” by Ken Thomas and Mark Collins.

4.6m wingspan and powered by six OS 46LA engines.

From the Editor


Ivor Francis Stowe was the first-born to Beverly and Harry Stowe of Birmingham England on the 10th June 1925. Apparently it was a long and painful labour, a fact not overlooked by either mother or child. The family migrate to Australia in 1927 settling in Doonside. Doonside at this time is a largely rural area and Ivor’s domain is the Doonside creek and the “pump hole” where he builds and paddles tin canoes fashioned from galvanized sheet and packing case ends. At about this time he is given a Women’s Weekly Cabin model (a small rubber pow-ered model aeroplane) and this triggers a life long obsession with aeromodelling. He is enrolled at Parramatta High along with Arthur Cooper and it is here that he meets Vera. Although his parents are conscientious objectors, after completing his matriculation and with the war in the Pacific ramping up, Ivor tries to enlist in the RAAF in 1943. He is rejected because of his childhood medical history but finds no such prejudice in the Army. The first his mother knows of this is when she sees him in uniform on Doonside railway station. Whilst undergoing training he is involved in the recap-ture of escaping Japanese POW’s at Cowra and on completion of his training is then deployed to Borneo in 1945. He steps off a boat on his 20th birthday on Labuan and is saved from being shot by a sniper who has already killed two of the company. A three month stint in Japan as a medical orderly follows the Japanese surrender and eventually he is demobilized in June 1947. At sometime during 1946 Ivor and others form the Doonside Aeromod-ellers Club.

In 1948 Ivor enrolls in Teachers College and studies to be a Physical Education instructor. He woos and marries Vera in 1949 and builds a house on a 5 acre block halfway between Doonside and Blacktown. Two children follow, Sand in 1950 and Tahn in 1952. Ivor attends Sydney University part-time and completes a BA in 1955 but also reapplies to the RAAF. He is offered appointment as a Pilot Officer in the Permanent Air Force but does not take up the commis-sion. Instead he becomes an English / History teacher, teaching at Granville Technical School, Westmead and Blacktown Boys High. His relationship with the Dept of Education is “difficult”, telling me at some stage that his file had been annotated in large letters “never to be promoted”. During this period he and Vera become very involved with the Black-town Swimming Pool Committee which is raising money to build a 50 metre public swimming pool. Also during the 60’s Ivor and the Doonside Blacktown Aeronautical Technicians Society (as they had become), who meet twice a week, build a 34’ x 18’ club house at the rear of the Kildare Rd property. Ivor attends and competes in nearly every National Championship (more than fifty in total) and hundreds of children and adults are exposed to model aircraft and aeromodelling through his various programs. A record unlikely to be equalled. Believing his only chance of promotion is to retrain as a school coun-sellor, he completes a MA in psychology and agrees to do country service in the far west of NSW at schools such as Wentworth, Hay and Booligal. This is followed by a western Sydney appointment and he eventually becomes a District Guidance Officer. He collaborates with well known model engine manufacturer Gordon Burford to produce the Doonside Mills in the early 70’s, the first of a couple of such projects. Also at this time he decides to publicise spelling reform (SR1) by changing his name by Deed Poll to Ivor F. This period sees him run in the first of his forty-two City to Surfs and put himself up for election at both state and federal elections, becoming Australia’s “most unsuc-cessful” candidate . The ABC crowns him their bicentennial “eccentric” in 1988. He is a serial contributor to the SMH Column 8, a cryptic crossword addict, “annoys the mouth organ”, a reciter of poetry and collector of model aeroplane magazines and engines. Ivor was always passionate about any cause he adopted and was first to put his money where his mouth was. Such causes as buying a fly-ing field at Pitt Town ( the only modeller owned field in the Sydney basin), establishing state school scholarships for meritorious / disad-vantaged kids, which he funded by working after retirement, and the production of 500 control line models to teach kids to fly, are but a few examples. No doubt there are many today who were inspired by his enthusiasm and energy, his spring was tightly wound, and the world is a better place for his having been here. Vale Ivor F. Tahn Stowe

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VICTORIAN CONTROL LINE AEROBATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS

2015

Held at Knox MAC in Melbourne over the Easter weekend the F2B section of this event was also a qualifying round for the selection of the team for next years World Championships in Perth and drew com-petitors from South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales. Three aerobatic competitions together with Team Racing and Combat made for a busy two days. Fortunately the weather was fine and the breeze light on both days, allowing the close battle for the first three places in F2B to continue into the fourth round when Mark Batty flew a commanding fourth flight to confirm the first place that he had held from the start.

PJ Rowland and Murray Howell were the other contenders and also held their places throughout to finish second and third respectively. Classic Stunt provided a tight finish, Frank Battam taking first place by the narrowest of margins from Tony Bonello with Adam Pogue placing third. Vintage Stunt was won by Maris Dislers with his Gordon Burford de-signed “Wombat” biplane from David Nobes with his refurbished “Guided Whistle” and Ken Maier flying a “Ringmaster S1”.

Mark Batty’s winning model in F2B is a Andrev Yatsenko “Shark” powered by a Discovery Retro 76.


Tony Bonello’s “Firecracker” flown in F2B. Reg Towell’s semi-scale “Sea Fury” flown in F2B and powered by a Saito 72 .

Winners in F2B (left to right) - PJ Rowland 2nd, Mark Batty 1st, Murray Howell 3rd.

Peter Anglberger’s F2B “Classic” by Yuri Yatsenko is electric powered. A nice semi-scale “Mustang” flow in F2B by Adam Pogue and powered by a Saito 72 four-stroke.


Tony Bonello’s placed a close second in Classic Stunt with his “Caprice” . Peter Koch flew his Brian Horrocks designed “Larakin” in the first round of Classic Stunt despite taking a nasty prop strike on his finger while starting.

Dave Lacey’s new “Jamison Special” powered by a K&B Torpedo 35. Adam Pogue flew his Bob Palmer designed “Skyscraper” in Classic Stunt. Model is powered by a Super Tigre 46.

Maris Dislers’ 2.5cc Oliver Tiger diesel powered “Wombat” designed by engine manufacturer Gordon Burford in 1949 for his GB 5cc diesel engines.

David Nobes’ ”Guided Whistle” looking like new again and powered by a glo-plugged Atwood 49.

PJ Rowland’s “Thundergazer” powered by a PA 75 and flown to second place in F2B.

Doug Grinham’s own design “Starcraft” is electric powered and flew in F2B.


(Doug Rochlin photo)

(Doug Rochlin photo)

Tony Bonello’s “Firecracker” flying in F2B. Maris Dislers’ “Wombat” in flight.

Adam Pogues’”Mustang” in F2B. Andrew Nugent flying his “Nobler” in Classic Stunt.


The 2015 Australian Masters event was held this year for the first time at Charles Kingsford Smith Model Aircraft Club (CKSMAC) at Pitt Town, New South Wales. Fantastic facilities and perfect weather made for another memorable Australian Masters. 43 entries were received from Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania with F3A and Expert classes being best represented. This year also saw a return of the Trans-Tasman Trophy for the first time in around 8 years. The New Zealand team was made up Hamish Galloway, Ross Craighead, Anthony Hall, James Danby and Brian Dooley with Noeline Craighead as Team Manager and Ewan Gallaway assisting. Hamish Galloway competed in the Masters class and the remaining four New Zealanders competing in the F3A class. The re-sult was calculated by adding the first four normalised scores of the New Zealand pilots and comparing them with the best Australian pi-lot’s results from the same classes. Thanks to Glenn Orchard in Masters and Russell Edwards, Jason Arnold, Ron Schultz and Tom Bloodworth in F3A, Australia won the Trans-Tasman Trophy by the narrowest margin of 83 normalized points. Thanks to Noeline Craighead and Bill Bloodworth for their work to get the Trans-Tasman going again this year. Let’s hope we have another soon. In a first this year, the APA committee decided to include the Masters on the 2015 F3A World Cup Calendar. The F3A World cup is a series of 14 events mostly in Europe, that is open to all pilots and works on a points system where the winner is the pilot with the most points at the end of the season. The Masters Class was also the World Cup event this year. Congratulations to the winner Glenn Orchard, with Bill Bloodworth second, and Aaron Garle third. Glenn and Bill’s work pre-paring themselves for the World Championships in Switzerland was evident with some high-class flying on display and very close scoring. Glenn won five of the six rounds. However both pilots scores were never more than 9 points apart, and three flights were less than one point apart. Whilst no international entries were received apart from our New Zea-land guests, the APA Committee believe that in the future as the World Cup grows in popularity, and into Asia, we will hopefully see some international participants attending in the future. Thanks to the Charles Kingsford Smith Model Aircraft Club and the New South Wales Pattern team for their work organising the field and catering. Jason Sparks

AUSTRALIAN MASTERS 2015

Glenn Orchard, winner of the APA Masters, with his “Acuracy” model by Naruke Tech Service and powered by a Plettenberg Advance electric mo-tor.

NZ Team from left, Hamish and Ewan Galloway, Anthony Hall, James Dan-by, Noeline and Ross Craighead, Brian Dooley.

The Australian F3A team for the 2015 World Championships in Switzerland. From left, Bill Bloodworth, David Gibbs (TM), Glenn Orchard, Dennis Travassaros.


Models and pilots ready to fly. Chris Henry’s Sebart “MythoS” in the foreground with Henry Hutchinson’s “Cyclone” and David Gibb’s Sebart “MythoS”.

Flight judges from left, Henry Hutchinson (Vic), Scott Kay (Tas), Ron Schultz (Vic), Jason Arnold (NSW).

The flight line at Charles Kingsford-Smith MAC.

The pit area at Charles Kingsford-Smith MAC.

APA President Russell Edwards and National Contest Director Jason Sparks with the trophies.

From left, Jason Sparks (National CD), Russell Edwards (APA President), Jason Arnold (NSW), Glenn Orchard (Vic), James Danby (NZ), Tom Blood-worth (Vic), Noeline Craighead (NZ, International Judge), Ross Craighead (NZ), Hamish Galloway (NZ), Anthony Hall (NZ), Ewan Galloway (NZ), Brian Dooley (NZ).

Russell Edwards, Glenn Orchard with his trophies, Jason Sparks.


SCALE FLYING at

YARRA VALLEY

This day was a second attempt by the Yarra Valley club to run the Haydn Hampson and Frank Curzon Memorial events together with a regular club competition. Unfortunately the low number attending on the ANZAC weekend put an end to the two major events so the day became a fly-for-fun and club competition only. Despite the small number it was a successful day with a reasonable turn out of models of all types. The Haydn Hampson and Frank Curzon events will be scheduled for another date later in the year.

Daniel Goudge’s VQ Models ARF Yak 9.


B-25 “Mitchell,” Ju.87 “Stuka” and a “Minimoa” glider by David Jones. All are ARF’s and electric powered.

The Warbird entry for the club competition.

A Fokker D.VIII by Mark Holly would have qualified for the Frank Curzon Memorial event.

The Civil entry for the club competition.

Graham Jenner’s ARF foam Hawker “Hurricane” by Dynam is electric powered and had one of the best engine sound systems that I have heard.

The electronics card and the speaker in Graham Jenner’s “Hurricane”. There are three sound options including a RR “Merlin” and a jet turbine.

A little cool but a good day for flying. Philip Singh’s Avro“Lancaster” and Graham Jenner’s Hawker “Hurricane” made a fine pair at almost matching scale.


Once again Easter was upon us with the long trip to Canowindra to fly in the biggest old timer event in Australia, five days of meeting old friends from all over Australia whom we see only every twelve months . First day of competition was Thursday with free flight at 7:00 am and processing of models, c/l Phantom racing, antique glider, Tomboy scramble to fill in the day. Unfortunately old man weather had other ideas about our flying on that day, free flight was cancelled because of the strong wind, c/l Phantom went ahead, glider had two rounds be-fore it was called off because of wind and Tomboy was cancelled. In the glider event Col Collyer found that there was no radio contact after launching his model but after a fairly long chase we found his model only slightly damaged. Kevin Fryer and Brian Stebbing both flew in the Phantom event with Kevin winning class 4 and Brian winning Class 5 and the Phantom Trophy by beating the previous best time by a massive 10.24%. Day 2 saw the wind blowing again and we started Nostalgia at 11:00am in very blustery conditions. Victoria had four flyers in this event — Col Collyer flying his Ramrod, Kevin Fryer flying his Spacer, Steve Gullock flying a Playboy and myself flying my Alan King “Flying Pencil”. By the time of the fly-off the wind was very choppy and bor-dering on call-off speed but we agreed to continue the fly-off with good results for Victoria, Col coming in first, myself eighth, Kevin tenth and Steve fourteenth. The next event was 1/2A but this was called off due to the high winds. The SAM1788 AGM was held that evening and they now have a new president and treasurer. Easter Saturday dawned relatively calm so we got into Burford straight away with the hope of running 1/2A later in the day, if we had time, but

by the time the third round was over the wind had come up. It also started to rain and didn't stop until 5:15pm so another day was lost. That evening was the BBQ at Paul Farthing's shed, put on by the local rotary club, and good food and friendship was had by all present. Easter Sunday dawned dry and calm so the Burford fly-off was held at 8:30am then into ‘38 Antique, unfortunately we Victorians didn't fare too well in this event. It was now time for the Grand Prix of the air, Duration, and it was agreed that it should be flown over three rounds with the best two to count to try to get three full comps in while the weather was good. There were twenty-nine entries, the highest num-ber of all the events. This comp is renowned for high revving motors but the first four place getters used two antique engines and two four-strokes, the first two-stroke did not appear until ninth place.. Texaco had twenty-seven entries and the weather still remained good. This event was also flown to two out of three rounds, with nineteen flyers in the fly-off, but the main tussle was between five flyers which included our Kevin Fryer, Steve Gullock and Brian Stebbing. After forty minutes in the air the winner was Dave Brown from NSW with Brian Stebbing second, Kevin fourthand Steve fifth. After the late finish we still had the presentation night to go to and this was a lot of fun. I left at 8:00am on Monday morning but I believe they tried to hold 1/2A, 2cc and Standard Duration in less-than-good conditions. Steve Gullock placed third in Standard Duration and 2cc was not flown. All in all I considered this to be the most disappointing Canowindra that I have attended, but we can’t control the weather. Brian Laughton

CANOWINDRA

2015

Dave Sampson starting his Bomber with the assistance of Steve Gullock. Colin Collyer with his Nostalgia winning “Ramrod” powered by an OS40H.


O/T GLIDER Model Score 1. J. QUIGLEY DG 42 293 2. J. RAE Fugitive 286 3. D. PATON Archangel 268 NOSTALGIA Model Engine Score Fly Off 1. C. COLLYER Ramrod OS 40H 840 818 2. G. MANWARING Spacer OS 40H 840 489 3. J. HARDY 1944 Swayback OS 40H 840 445 GORDON BURFORD Model Engine Score Fly Off 1. P. SMITH Faison Taipan plain (T) 900 925 2. M. WALSH Calypso Taipan plain (T) 900 776 3. M. MOORE Fleebo Taipan BB 900 587 ANTIQUE Model Engine Score Fly Off 1. M. WALSH Westerner Anderson Spitfire 1200 1121 2. P. SCOTT Record Breaker Forster 99 1200 1037 3. B. STEBBING RC 1 OK Super 60 1200 988 DURATION Model Engine Score Fly Off 1. M. WALSH 1942 Stardust Spl McCoy 60 840 729 2. D. HOWIE 1938 Bomber 85% Saito 56 4/S 840 664 3. P.J. SMITH 1941 Playboy115% McCoy 60 840 612 TEXACO Model Engine Score Fly Off 1. D. BROWN 1938 Flamingo O&R 60 1200 2195 2. B. STEBBING Rambler OS 40 2/d 1200 1925 3. D. McKENZIE Bomber Saito 56 4/S 1200 1883 1/2A TEXACO Model Score 1. P.J. SMITH 1941 Lil Diamond 570 2. P. SCOTT Baby Burd 564 3. P. VAN WATERBEEMD 1941 Lil Diamond 495 STANDARD DURATION Model Engine Score Fly Off 1. P. SMITH Playboy Magnum 36 600 1056 2. P. VAN WATERBEEMD Bomber 85% K&B 40 600 973 3. S. GULLOCK Playboy OS 40H 600 660 CHAMPION of CHAMPIONS D. PATON

Kevin Fryer’s “Cumulus” Duration model, powered by a McCoy 60 spark ignition engine.

Brian Stebbing’s record breaking Keil Kraft “Phantom”.

Don Howie with his Saito 56 4-stroke powered 85% Lanzo “Bomber” took second place in Duration.

Kevin Fryer assisting with the tuning of the OK Super 60 in Col Collyer’s Texaco model.


Gary Sunderland’s

SOPWITH TABLOID

Some 45 years ago I bought a set of Hungerford wire-spoked wheels, at great cost for the time, but only recently decided to use them on a model. Wheels are usually covered with canvas to decrease drag so only a very early aeroplane would be correct to scale with bared spokes. Drawing up a scale model does show up a lot of detail which may not be obvious. Harry Hawker based the Tabloid on Sopwith’s existing “three seater” using its nose and wide fuselage, back to the front cock-pit, with its two side-by-side seats. It had a fore and aft elevator lever, topped by a control wheel to work the wing warping. The controls were mounted at the centre and could be operated by either occupant. The remainder of the design was scaled down with no rear seat, a small tail and single bay wing bracing. The result was a spectacular improvement in performance with the same 80hp Gnome engine and Harry Hawker brought the prototype to Australia to show it off. The Tabloid cockpit was a tight squeeze for two occupants and Harry likely enjoyed helping young ladies into their seat, a problem compounded by the proximity of the top wing trailing edge. After the prototype all Tabloids had a small cut out section above the cockpit to aid entry. Most of the early Tabloids had forward skids, as on the prototype. These can be a problem on free-flight models, which usually “arrive” rather than landing gently. For this reason I chose to model RFC No. 1214. This aircraft was built originally for harry Hawker to fly in the Gordon Bennett race but the war got in the way. It was fitted with a 80hp Le Rhone engine, as shown by the air intake tubes in the sides, and it featured a simple undercarriage. Most of the early Tabloids had an aluminium top decking to behind the cockpit. For some reason No.1214 had plywood decking, with a windscreen and a head fairing aft of the cockpit. Some early Tabloids were fitted with a Lewis gun to frighten the ene-my but, when mounted on the top wing it was impossible to re-load. In contrast old 1214had the Lewis gun and armoured airscrew from a Morane, which may have been more useful. Unfortunately there is no record of 1214’s gun ever being used in anger. Another detail on all tabloids is the fixed centre section on both top and bottom wings extending one rib bay outside the fuselage. I avoid-ed this on my model as, being a free-flighter, it would be likely to dam-age. Some paint over the “join” hopefully will give the appearance of the original. Later Sopwith “Scouts”, which was their official name, were fitted with ailerons, which will interest r/c modellers. Unfortunately the lower wings were moved forward, to give no stagger, and a rather ugly rec-tangular form tailplane was also fitted, with two sets of tailplane struts. A couple went the Dardanelles but never flew over Gallipoli. They

were generally inferior to the Bristol Scout and soon replaced by the re-designed Sopwith Scout (“Pup”) in service. As a model, the relatively long nose (the “Pups” top wing leading edge is over the engine!) does help with the trimming, although the tail sur-faces are a bit small. At 1/8th scale, a wingspan of 0.98m and pow-ered by a PAW 1cc diesel engine the final weight came out at 850g (2lbs) so flight is nice and slow and it looks good in the air.


The original Tabloid, which was first flown by Harry Hawker on No-vember 27th,1913 was a two-seater single bay biplane with a side-by-side seating configuration, unusual at the time. The equal-span wings were slightly staggered and used wing warping for lateral control. The rectangular section fuselage was a conventional wire-braced wooden structure with the forward section covered in aluminium and the re-mainder, aft of the cockpit, covered in fabric. The control surfaces were of fabric-covered steel tubing and the undercarriage had a pair of forward-projecting skids in addition to the wheels. The most distinctive feature of the design was the engine cowling, which almost entirely enclosed the engine, cooling air being admitted through two small slots at the front. The prototype was powered by an 80 hp (60 kW) Gnome Lambda rotary engine and in a trial flown by Harry Hawker at Farn-borough the Tabloid reached 148 km/h (92 mph) and took only one minute to reach 366 m (1200 ft) while carry-ing a passenger and enough fuel for 2½ hours. A production order from the War Office was placed early in 1914, and a total of 40 were built. The aircraft's speed made it an obvi-ous candidate for entry to the Schnei-der Trophy competition, and accord-ingly a floatplane adaptation was prepared, to be powered by a 100 hp Gnome Monosoupape which T.O.M. Sopwith personally collected from Paris. This was initially fitted with a single central float, but on its first taxying trials with Howard Pixton at the controls the aircraft turned over as soon as the engine was run up, and remained in the water for some hours before it could be retrieved. A heroic effort was made to make the water-logged machine airworthy, and, lack-ing the time to prepare a new set of floats, the existing float was simply sawn in half down the middle and thus converted into a pair of floats. After a satisfactory test flight on 7 April the aircraft was shipped to Monaco, where the competition was to take place. The competition, which was a time trial rather than a race, was easi-ly won by Pixton. So clear was the superiority of the Sopwith that the competitors who were to start after him did not even bother to take off: Pixton had completed his first cir-cuit in around two thirds of the time taken by the fastest of aircraft which had taken off before him. After completing the twenty eight cir-cuits required at an average speed of 139.6 km/h (86.75 mph), he opened the throttle fully and completed two more laps at a speed of 148 km/h (92 mph), setting a new world record for seaplanes. The first order, for twelve aircraft, was placed in November 1914. Like the race winner, these were powered by the 100 hp Monosoupape and only differed in minor detail from the racer. Later production air-craft were fitted with ailerons in place of wing-warping, had an en-larged fin and were fitted with a Lewis gun firing upwards through an opening in the wing centre-section. In all 160 were built.

No original Tabloids or Schneiders survive today but full size replicas of each are displayed at the RAF Museum Hendon and Brooklands Museum. Single-seat variants of the Tabloid went into production in 1914 and 36 eventually entered service with the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). Deployed to France at the outbreak of the First World War, Tabloids were used as fast scouts. Some naval air-craft were armed with a Lewis gun on the top wing, firing over the propeller arc. One other aircraft used a Lewis gun firing through the propeller arc with deflector wedges mounted on the propeller blades.

The Tabloid was also used as a bomb-er. On 22 September 1914, Tabloids mounted the first raid by British aircraft on German soil, and in their most fa-mous mission two RNAS Tabloids flying from Antwerp on October 8th,1914 attacked the German Zeppe-lin sheds at Cologne and Düsseldorf. The Cologne target was not located, the railway station being bombed in-stead, but the shed at Düsseldorf was struck by two 9kg (20lb) bombs dropped from 183m (600ft) and the Z IX destroyed. During 1915 attempts were made to use Schneiders to intercept Zeppelins over the North Sea, launching them from seaplane carriers including HMS Ben-my-Chree and Engadine, but these were largely unsuccessful, due to heavy seas either making take-off im-possible or damaging the floats. On 6 August 1915 a Schneider took off from the aircraft carrier HMS Campania using a jettisonable dolly. A single Sopwith Schneider fighter seaplane was acquired by Captain Shiro Yamauchi, during an inspection tour of England, during 1915. While in Imperial Japanese Navy service it was designated Yokosuka Navy Ha-go Small Seaplane.

General Characteristics Crew: one Length: 6.96 m (22 ft 10 in) Wingspan: 7.83 m (25 ft 8 in) Height: 3.05 m (10 ft 0 in) Powerplant: 1 × 100 hp Gnome Monosoupape 9-cyl. rotary engine Maximum speed: 140 km/h (87 mph, 76 knots) Range: 510 km (315 miles, 275 nm) Service ceiling: 2,100 m (7,000 ft )


WAGGA WORLD WAR II AND

MILITARY SCALE

Phil Crandon’s NA Harvard was voted “Model of the Meet”.

This Westland Wyvern ARF is electric powered with front prop powered and rear prop free wheeling.

1/4 scale Bristol M1 by Tom Panagiotopoulos.

(Photographs by Gary Sunderland)


Flying Only 1. Anthony Ogle - F4U Corsair 2. David Tennant - P51 Mustang 3. Anthony Ogle - Fokker DVIII WW1 1. Simon Harvey - Fokker DVII 2. Ben Tennant - Fokker DVII 3. Jamie Zambelli - Fokker DVII WW2 1. Alf Williams - Fieseler Storch 2. Anthony Ogle - F4U Corsair 3. Phil Crandon - NA Harvard Military 1. Peter Goff - DH82 Tiger Moth 2. Craige Bryson - Sopwith Triplane 3. Tom Pana - Bristol M1 Highest Static 1. Peter Goff - DH82 Tiger Moth 2. Alf Williams - Fieseler Storch 3. James Price - SE5a Highest Flight Score Anthony Ogle - F4U Corsair Model of the Meet Phil Crandon - NA Harvard Best WW1 Jamie Zambelli - Fokker DVII Best WW2 Anthony Ogle - F4U Corsair Best Military Craige Bryson - Sopwith Triplane Best ARF Steve Miller - P47 Thunderbolt People's Choice Award James Price - SE5A Tim Smith Memorial Trophy Peter Goff - DH82 Tiger Moth Craige Brysob’s Sopwith Triplane.

Alf Williams presenting his Fieseler Storch to the static judges.

James Price’s SE5 won the “Peoples Choice” award.

Rick Pimblott has moved on from a WWI “Eindekker” to this WWII “Hurricane”. Simon Harvey’s 1/3 scale Fokker D.VII, in the white colour scheme of Herman Goering, placed first in the WWI category.


Bendigo Sunday May 3, was the place and day for the third Model Engines “Scanner Challenge”, conducted by Bendigo Radio Controlled Aircraft Club at their Marong field for Model Engines Aust, on a almost perfect autumn day, cool to start followed by a warm sunny day with very little wind, the sort of day we dreamed of as ideal for this years Scanner Challenge. Interest in the entries was at the maximum of twenty-four to start with but it dwindled down due to work commitments, distance and a couple on the sick list, which left us with sixteen, but this sixteen certainly weren't going to miss out on the fun, laughter and enjoyment of this, the Third Scanner Challenge. By 10am every thing was set and ready to go. A big welcome to Ben-digo went out to the pilots, followed by the briefing on how the Chal-lenge was to be run. Next we had the group photo before the racing commenced (there is an obvious reason), the flight order was read out and it was time go and have some fun racing. The race is for ten laps from a standing start and the models are released at one second inter-vals without any streamers or ribbons attached to the tail. We are having racing fun, not aerial combat. The pilots are graded into heats from past performances, the fast-est four in heat 1, next fastest four in heat 2 and so on, this helps to keep the speeds of the aircraft at some sort of similar race speed, making the races more exciting for both the pilots and the specta-tors alike. It works because they all like the excitement. Three rounds or twelve races were completed before the lunch break and it could be seen that the most experienced pilots settled down and flew nice lines while the less experienced and newer flyers took some laps before they could settle down and get into some sort of groove. The more they raced the better they flew. During the lunch break, three of the pilots put on a demonstration race with their Seagull “Nemesis”. At 2m wingspan with 35cc petrol engines this is the new class known as F2 or “Nemesis 35” class. The pilots say this is the nicest flying aircraft they have, just a dream to fly. With lunch over it’s back to the Scanner Challenge and we are ready to race again. In Heat 1, Jay Everitt and Les Davis were dicing for eight or nine laps to reach the finishing line first, very exciting stuff.

In Heat 2 Andrew Ward was faster than the other three pilots but those three pilots had all the fun as their speed was very close and with positions constantly changing it was great to watch. Heat 3 saw Gary Schmedje and Brodie Hunter chasing each other around and around but Brodie just couldn't get passed Gary, no matter how hard he tried. There always has to be one heat that stands out from the rest and it was Heat 4, here we had Jack Andrews and Lucy Simkin racing to-gether, all the boys had been ribbing Jack not to get beaten by a girl. Lucy was just as determined to try and beat Jack, and in the last heat of he last round in happened ads Murphy kicked in with a mid-air be-tween the two at the turn on the bottom pylons. Jack's aircraft went straight to ground with bits everywhere while Lucy's model, without any tail feathers, climbed up to 100 metres did a nice wingover and headed straight down for the dirt some distance down the field. Winners of the Model Engines prizes. Heat 1. Les Davis re-presented to Jay Everitt Geelong. Heat 2. Andrew Ward CHAMPS Heat 3. Gary Schmedje Bendigo Heat 4. Jack Andrews Bendigo Lucy Simkin also received a Model Engines prize for her wonderful tailless flight. Les Sawyer won the raffle. (very tinny) Thanks must go to the light marshalls Jordan, Declan, Noel and David, the canteen staff Alan, Ken and Andy, Graeme (race starter) and to Roy for the pics. These people give up their day so that we can race and have lots of fun with our Scanners! Thanks also to Model Engines for giving the Bendigo Club the oppor-tunity to conduct these Scanner Challenges on their behalf, it brings so much fun, laughter and enjoyment to these pilots, and they just love it. Les Davis

3rd MODEL ENGINES “SCANNER” CHALLENGE

BENDIGO 2015


Scanner pilots start your Engines ! Note starting pegs used for safety

Les Davis ( top) and Jay Everitt in a close battle. This went on all day.

Andrew Ward (L) about to be presented with the Model engines prize. Andrew clocked fastest time and easily won Heat 2.

Scanners about to be released, one second apart, by Les Sawyer, Lucy Simkin, Jarrrod Tippins and Tony Brenham.

Nemesis 2m size, the new Large Scale racing class, flown in a demo race in the lunch time break by Brodie Hunter.


TWIN CITIES AUTUMN SCALE RALLY 2015

Ian and I travelled north to Albury, once again, for the Twin Cities Autumn Scale Rally. This was the seventh year of the event and, as we have come to expect, the weather was magnificent both for flying our models and for some socialising with our nearest neighbours in New South Wales The 20 entries and 35 models were not quite as large numbers as in previous years but those who came were able to enjoy clear sky and excellent weather. It was not difficult to slot in at the flight line and sel-dom were there more than two or three models in the air at any time. There were modellers from Melbourne, Sydney, Wangaratta, Euroa and Canberra and there was Laurent Higuero who came all the way from Katoomba in the Blue Mountains of western NSW.

Laurent came with a van full of models and a trailer full of camping gear and set up camp at the field for four days. He was seldom out of the air and when I called David Balfour on monday morning to check on a few details he was still getting in a few more flights before starting on the long trip home. At the risk of becoming repetitious I have to say again, this is a great event at an excellent field and is usually blessed with fine weather. It’s a laid back approach to scale flying and I recommend it to all scale enthusiasts.

Laurent Higuero received the judges award for best model with his “Spitfire”.


One of Laurent Higuero’s many models, this Ryan had a few engine problems but flew well when these were sorted out by another of the interstate visitors.

Laurent Higuero’s campsite at the end of the carpark.

David Balfour’s DH.27 “Derby” The “Derby” in flight.

The “Derby” was a large aircraft and makes an impressive model. The Lewis gun and the gunner are connected to the rudder controls and trav-erse as the rudder moves.

Bill Pearce from the Greensborough club in Melbourne returned again this year with his ARF WACO biplane.


The overcast on Saturday gave way to blue sky and warm sunshine on Sunday with a light breeze on both days.

TCMAC member Adam Dakos flew this ARF Me109 by Hangar 9. Model is 1.7m wingspan and powered by a Saito 125 four stroke.

Chris Henry’s Tucano and Spitfire are large models and fly with great presence. Robert Karghin’s ARF “Chipmunk” and DH.110 “Vampire”.

Trevor Pugh from Greensborough MAC flew his Stearman and a new CAP 232. Both models are ARF.

This nice DH.82 “Tiger Moth” by TCMAC member Des Piltz was constructed from a Pilot kit . At 1.45m wingspan it’s powered by a OS 61 four stroke.

More of Laurent Higuero’s models with his winning “Spitfire” at the front.


PARTENAVIA P.68

Tony Small’s

The Builder has completed the model for the Client and test flights have been carried out. The model flies well and everyone is satisfied with the outcome of this combined effort. A great success for the Builder, the Client, and the Technical Advisor.

The Builder, Barry Kilpatrick and the Client, Tony Small, with the finished model.


68th AUSTRALIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS RADIO CONTROL SCALE

at TINGALPA

Lynn and I had the good fortune to be able to attend the 68th Nation-als scale events held from April 12th -15th at the Tingalpa field just south of Brisbane. We arrived there on Saturday for registration and were warmly welcomed by the MAAA secretary, Kevin Dodd, and the event organisers, Darryl Gunst and Tyson Dodd who promptly signed us up and loaded us down with a goodie bag containing many useful items. I also purchased a very nice polo necked T-shirt to commemorate the occasion although coming from NSW it’s going to be dicey to wear the maroon colour too often, especially when the State of Origin match is on! The competition started on Sunday with Large Scale static judging in the morning followed by the first round of flying. Some very impressive models, ranging from WWI biplanes to modern F16 jets, were on dis-play. This event ran very smoothly throughout the day with no major holdups. A couple of major incidents occurred, the first when P. Symes’ Mig 15 crashed on take-off and the second when Chris Patter-son’s F16 turbine powered model flamed out over the trees. The mod-el clipped the trees and disappeared into the bush to be retrieved relatively unscathed after landing in 1.5m high grass! A model that attracted much attention was Luke Cullen’s large P- 47 razor-back “Thunderbolt”. With a massive wingspan and a five cylinder Moki radial engine up front it certainly made its presence felt. The big four blade propeller on the front wasn’t just for static either, it was used in flight and very much gave the impression of a real aircraft. To me, that’s what scale flying is all about. Monday saw the completion of Large Scale and awards were present-ed at the end of the day. Tuesday and Wednesday saw a combined event with both F4C and Sport Scale flown. We had near perfect

weather although at times the cross wind was a challenge when land-ing. Again there were many ups and downs through the day and unfor-tunately my “Stuka” didn’t make it through, crashing badly in the third round. There was a good cross section of pilots competing from Queensland and NSW with the Mig15 being one of the stand out aircraft. The Warbirds were the stars of the show and my favourites. All in all we had a terrific time, the 68th Queensland Nats was a fan-tastic event run exceedingly well. We had near perfect weather and the field and strip were immaculate. So hats off to the organisers for a grand event and to the TMAC for the great welcome and facilities that they supplied. Our compliments to the canteen staff who supplied great food at a very reasonable price and to everyone who was in-volved with the 68th Nats. We travelled over 1600km to attend the Nats and had an amazing time. We met lots of lovely people, learned many new things, and can’t wait for the next Nationals.

The sad ending for Stuart’s electric powered Ju.87 “Stuka”.

(Report and photographs by Stuart Dawson)


Luke Cullen’s large razor-back P-47 “Thunderbolt” won Large Scale. Powered by a Moki five cylinder radial engine.

Tyson Dodd’s T-33 “Shooting Star” in flight. Placed second in Large Scale.

Will Sipma’s Sopwith Pup modelled on the RAAF Museum’s aircraft. Ray Perrin’s Staaken Flitzer Goblin gained the highest static score in F4C but did not fly.

A Mig 15 by Tyson Dodd. Graham Harrod’s DHC Chipmunk flew in Large Scale.

An unusual aircraft by P. Andresen. This SPAD A2 flew in Large Scale. The SPAD A2 in flight.


COMPETITOR MODEL SCORE

1 G. HARROD PT-19 STEARMAN 4845.5

2 C. PATERSON MIG 15 3631

3 R. PERRIN FLITZER 0


1 L. CULLEN P-47 THUNDERBOLT 2390

2 T. DODD T-33 2299

3 C. PATERSON F-16 2295


1 L. CULLEN EXTRA 260 2313

2 M. RYAN P-47 THUNDERBOLT 2255

3 T. DODD MIG 15 2212.5

F4C

LARGE SCALE

SPORT SCALE

RESULTS

P. Griffiths’ Yak 54 flying in Sport Scale. Harry Glover’s “FlyBaby” taking off in Sport Scale.

Another Chris Paterson jet. The F-16 placed third in Large Scale. Chris Paterson’s two seat Mig 15 placed second in F4C.

Graham Harrod’s PT-17 took first place in F4C.

Noel Stuart’s GeeBee ‘Y’ flew in Sport Scale.


VICTORIAN / SOUTH AUSTRALIAN STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS

2015

This is the first competition since November 2014 that has been a pleasure to fly in. I arrived about 4 pm Friday and found six people had already arrived and were flying, so I pulled out my latest model, an electric ½ A Albatross and had two twenty-five minute flights in lovely calm conditions. The next morning found us with a light wind about 5m/s, flyable but not comfortable, so we flew 1/2A. At times they were a bit of a handful but we got through without any major damage. The SA chaps taught us a lesson taking out first, second and third places. We flew electric 1/2A at the same time and for the second time in a row this event was taken out by Max Heap in a healthy field of six contestants. By now the wind had started to subside and all the contestants had arrived. To our surprise we had seven chaps from SA and, from Can-berra, Grant Mainwaring on his first trip to our Cohuna flying field. I think this was part of a plan by the SA chaps to beat us and as the days went on that’s what they did, they thrashed us, but in a very sporting manner. The next event was Burford and of the twelve entries only four were from Victoria, not a good percentage considering that this was our competition. Again first and second went west of the border with only one Victorian getting close to the front. Next was Texaco with twelve entries, seven of these being from Victo-ria. This event went well into the afternoon with the fly-off completed after the sun had gone down below the horizon. It was a long fly-off with the winner taking over thirty minutes and again two of the first three place getters being from SA. Dinner that night was at the motel with the usual delicious spit roast and lots of fun. Next morning we woke to a very cold, heavy, frost but no wind and the wind remained like his for the rest of the day. First event was Duration with all of the fast climbing models going for their life in the lovely weather conditions. Unfortunately during this event we accepted a new member into “THE SILLY OLD BUGGERS CLUB”, a club which had two members, Graeme Gulbin and myself. We qualified when we needed medical attention at the 2014 Roy Rob because we stuck

parts of our bodies in our rotating propellers. Our newest member is Max Heap who stuck his thumb in the prop and needed three stitches at the hospital - welcome aboard Max. Getting back to the comp, Victorians took two of the three placings with Max Newcombe from SA taking first place. In the electric duration the finish was a laugh as there were only two entries, both put max’s in on their first flight but both crashed on landing on their second flight. Roger crashed in the designated landing area and Laurie crashed out so neither had a model left but Roger was declared the winner as he crashed in . A gourmet lunch put on by the Cohuna boys to satisfy the starving flyers. After lunch the last event was ‘38 Antique and we had nine entries with three from Victoria. This was flown a little earlier than the previous day’s last event and flown in dead calm. It was beautiful to watch and listen to those un-muffled old engines. Again it was won by a SA mem-ber but at least Victorians got the next two placings. So another State Champs is over and on reflection it would have to be one of the best as far as weather and interstate contestants are con-cerned, if only we could order weather like this all the time Brian Laughton


COMPETITOR MODEL ENGINE Sec/cc Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 F/O TOTAL

1. M. HEAP STARDUST 600 600 920 2120

2. B. LAUGHTON ALBATROSS 600 600 902 2102

3. C. COLLYER PLAYBOY 600 600 860 2060

1/2A TEXACO ELECTRIC


1. R. MITCHELL BOMBER 600 600 1068 2120

2. G. RYAN RC 1 600 600 906 2106

3. S. GULLOCK POLLY 600 600 720 1920

TEXACO ELECTRIC


1. R. MITCHELL BOMBER 420 420 647 1487

2. L. BALDWIN PLAYBOY 420 420 L/O 840

DURATION ELECTRIC


1. C. BRITCHER STARDUST Cox 420 420 420 826 2086

2. D. MARKWELL STARDUST Cox 420 420 420 803 2063

3. B. BRITCHER STARDUST Cox 420 420 420 714 1974

1/2A TEXACO


1. B. LAUGHTON BOMBER OS 60 15 600 600 600 1873 3673

2. D. MARKWELL BOMBER OS 61 15 600 600 600 1664 3464

3. P. KEELY AIRBORN OS 60 15 600 600 586 600 1511 3311

TEXACO


1. M. NEWCOMBE BOMBER McCoy 60 28 420 420 420 785 2045

2. R. TAYLOR CUMULUS YS 63 28 420 420 420 614 1874

3. L. CLIFFORD RACER YS 63 28 420 420 420 546 1806

DURATION


1. C. BRITCHER CRESCENDO PB 40 300 300 300 534 1434

2. D. MARKWELL CRESCENDO PB 40 300 300 300 523 1423

3. B. LAUGHTON DIXIELANDER PB 40 300 300 300 505 1405

BURFORD


1. B. BRITCHER RC 1 Atwood 49 128 572 600 600 600 875 2675

2. B. LAUGHTON RC 1 OK Super 60 120 600 600 906 2106

3. L. CLIFFORD RC 1 Atwood 49 128 600 600 600 606 1806

‘38 ANTIQUE

Rob Taylor’s Cumulus takes off in Duration.

Roger Taylor receiving the Fred Stebbing Electric Trophy from Gary Ryan.

Brian Dowie confirming that the wind speed is actually zero.


Duration winners, from left — R. Taylor (Cumulus) 2nd, M. Newcombe (Bomber) 1st, L. Clifford (Racer) 3rd.

Dave Markwell was apparently concerned that he might not be seen on the flight line.

The spit roast dinner at the motel. The South Australian competitors.

The flight line at Cohuna. ‘38 Antique winners, from left — L. Clifford (RC1) 3rd, B. Britcher (RC1) 1st, B. Laughton (RC1) 2nd.

Texaco Electric winners, from left — S. Gullock (Polly) 3rd, R. Mitchell (Bomber) 1st, G. Ryan (RC1) 2nd.


The Australian Free Flight Society

Championships 2015

Those who had arrived early at Narrandera, and went out to the field on Thursday – the day before competitions were due to start – were greeted by perfect conditions. The wind was light, the grass was short, the ground was firm and there were no swampy areas to slither through. Everything looked set for a really good contest. Out trimming were the three Chinese flyers, two New Zealanders and Australians from all States. At 2am the next morning the rain started. It continued for the whole day ac-companied by strong wind. A problem with the Narrandera field is that the ground is not very absorbent so the rain doesn’t sink in. It just makes the surface as slippery as ice and stops cars getting to the flight line. A few flyers visited the field on Friday morning but nobody drove past the gate. The AFFS AGM was on Friday evening. A pretty good meeting, the main outcome being a complete change in the AFFS executive, very pleasing. Any organization becomes stale if there are not new people willing or wanting to do some work. By Saturday the rain had eased but it was still windy (like very windy, more than 10m/s = ~40km/h). The lack of flying did allow a bit of tourist type activity. We visited the local forest near Lake Talbot with Adia Wang and Lusong Yung. They saw koalas and a herd of roos. In the afternoon a few people drove out to the field in Matt Hannaford’s 4WD truck and Phil Mitchell’s 4WD Kluger. They returned with all the equipment that had been set up on the field on Thursday, tents, stooges, bikes….. and reported that the flight line was barely accessible with big tires and 4WD and for ordinary cars might not be for days. A meeting was held at the RSL (in the dining room) and it was decided to try and fly all the events on the Tuesday. This allowed all of Monday for the field to dry out and although some were doubtful if this was enough time the forecast was for the wind to continue (good for drying) and the next two days to be at least partly sunny. Tuesday turned out to be a pretty nice day. A bit breezy with the wind around 3 - 4m/s at the start rising to perhaps 6 in the late morning and then decreas-ing in the afternoon, but no rain! It was busy - crammed with the entire five day AFFS program. It had been decided to run the FAI events (F1A, F1B, F1C) to just five rounds and after the first one the round time was increased to 1½ hours to allow time for retrieval. Naturally entry numbers were small because it was difficult to fly multiple events in the wind. Roy Summersby however man-aged the three flights in both Open Power and Vintage Power and as a result was (again) Champion of Champions.

A few models that went a long way in lift were mislaid (Phil Mitchell’s A2 did 12 min./~4km after D/Ting at 3 min.) and a couple were lost, including Wakefields belonging to Craig Hemsworth and Gary Goodwin. This is still quite mysteri-ous as we searched for some hours the next day and later Craig searched from a light aircraft. Possibly both models failed to DT and in the strong lift and wind could have gone many 10’s of km. Even with the 1½ hour rounds it was hard work. The Chinese flyer Yunsheng Wu returned from a very long retrieve with ten minutes to go before the end of the last round, calmly put in a new motor and launched with two minutes to spare, maxing to get into the fly off with Vin Morgan, Paul Rossiter. The AFFS dinner at the Morundah Hotel was up to its usual high standard. Check the pictures. As there was a flyoff we had to go out to the field again on Wednesday (the moving-to-West Wyalong day). Conditions were pleasant at 0730, similar to the day before, with the wind ~3m/s. Vin seems to have got a bit more professional in fly-offs and had two models ready. He wound one motor, left it in the half-tube (insurance) and then wound another very hard. He used the second motor and had a reasonably good flight of 5:34 in the cold air. Wu got 4:24. Paul had a prop-start failure because the start line was caught up and although he re-launched successfully one blade was off pitch so the climb was not very good. The down side for Vin was that when he drove down to fetch the model it had been tasted by cows. The bite mark on the motor tube is not a problem and the chewed tracker antenna can be straightened but where the apparently tasty numbers had been licked off the wing the ribs were broken and there was some tail and fin damage. So of to West Wyalong where the weather was considerably better for the Southern Cross cup. The wind on Thursday for F1B and Open Power was very light, less than 2m/s and coming from every direction. It made lift-picking tricky and only Paul Ros-siter made the full seven rounds without mishap. Yunsheng Wu was brides-maid again dropping just 8 seconds in round five and Vin was third with 155 in round 4. Leigh was a bit unfortunate, she had dropped 2 rounds but only by small amounts and was looking at third place until the last round where a good launch into terrible air gave her a 96sec. flight. Too many advisors!

(Report by Leigh and Vin Morgan with photographs by Malcolm Campbell)


It was a bit breezier on Friday for F1A, F1C and Open Rubber. Actually it started reasonably calm but, as Willy Weather predicted, the wind came up around 11:00. Contest Management had reduced some of the earlier round times so by the time the wind arrived we had completed round 4. Round 5 was reduced to a 2 minute max and the contest was stopped after round 5. At the end of the 5 rounds Vin Morgan and Lusong Yang in F1A, and all three F1C flyers, Roy Summersby, Terry Bond and Gary Pope were still clean. For the fly-off the next morning there was light drift to the SW so we moved to the west side of the field. Unfortunately, for the F1C flyers (who went first) the wind swung round to be more northerly so both Terry and Roy ended up in the trees. For F1A the start position was moved further north so both Vin and Lusang Yang landed in the field. The shorter F1A flights helped. The presentation dinner - a BBQ spit cooked lamb, vegetables cooked in camp ovens, and damper was rather different to the AFFS dinner but just as good. We sat around a huge fire and chatted. Extremely pleasant. Paul Rossiter launching his Wakefield in F1B.

Leigh Morgan launching in F1B at West Wyalong. Terry Bond (rear) and Roy Summersby , first and second in F1C.

Terry Bond launching his folder in the F1C fly-off.

Adrian Bryant, the provider of the field. Gary Pope launching in F1C.

Phil Mitchell’s F1A on tow. Lusong Yang with his F1A model.


F1A 1 2 3 4 5 FO TOTAL Phil Mitchell (AUS) 180 180 180 180 180 900 Malcolm Campbell (AUS) 155 180 180 180 180 875 Antony Koerbin (NZL) 180 180 138 43 180 721 Albert Fathers (AUS) 0 180 180 180 180 720 Craig King (NZL) 144 180 0 180 134 638 Lusong Yang (CHN) 180 18 69 28 0 295 F1B Vin Morgan (AUS) 180 180 180 180 180 334 900 Yunsheng Wu (CHN) 180 180 180 180 180 264 900 Paul Rossiter (AUS) 180 180 180 180 180 140 900 Craig Hemsworth (AUS) 180 180 180 0 0 540 Matt Hannaford (AUS) 180 180 109 0 0 469 Leigh Morgan (AUS) 141 180 180 0 0 321 Donna Gray (AUS) 118 123 73 0 0 314 Gary Goodwin (AUS) 20 111 180 0 0 311 F1C Yuan Gao (CHN) 180 180 180 141 180 861 Gary Pope (AUS) 180 180 0 180 180 720 Terry Bond (AUS) 180 180 0 180 0 40 Roy Summersby (AUS) 180 0 0 0 0 180 F1J Des Slattery (AUS) 360 OPEN RUBBER Jim Christie 360 P-30 Tim Hannaford (junior) 281 Joshua Hannaford (junior) 180 OZ DIESEL Roy Summersby 711 Des Slattery 61 COMBINED VINTAGE Roy Summersby Swiss Miss 540 Des Slattery Stomper 98 HLG/CLG Peter Lloyd 175 Malcolm Campbell 106 Bill East 37 AFFS CHAMPION 2015 Roy Summersby

F1A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 FO TOTAL Vin Morgan (AUS) 180 180 180 180 120 0 0 285 840 Lusong Yang (CHN) 180 180 180 180 120 0 0 234 840 Antony Koerbin (NZL) 180 180 176 180 120 0 0 836 Matt Hannaford (AUS) 169 180 170 180 120 0 0 819 Craig King (NZL) 180 180 180 0 120 0 0 660 Albert Fathers (AUS) 146 180 180 88 0 0 0 594 Malcolm Campbell (AUS) 97 119 0 0 0 0 0 216 F1B Paul Rossiter (AUS) 180 180 180 180 180 180 180 1260 Yunsheng Wu (CHN) 180 180 180 180 172 180 180 1252 Vin Morgan (AUS) 180 180 180 155 180 180 180 1235 Terry Bond (AUS) 180 180 148 180 180 180 180 1228 Leigh Morgan (AUS) 180 170 177 180 180 180 96 1163 Donna Gray (AUS) 168 156 180 132 180 180 131 1127 Matt Hannaford (AUS) 176 180 162 130 180 180 109 1117 Albert Fathers (AUS) 167 168 180 165 155 180 59 1074 Craig Hemsworth (AUS) 180 129 180 110 180 165 82 1026 F1C Terry Bond (AUS) 180 180 180 180 120 0 0 486 840 Roy Summersby (AUS) 180 180 180 180 120 0 0 397 840 Gary Pope (AUS) 180 180 180 180 120 0 0 229 840

AFFS CHAMPIONSHIP 2015 SOUTHERN CROSS CUP 2015

The house at the West Wyalong field. The Chinese flyers, Lusong Yang (F1A), Yunsheng Wu (F1B), Bruce (Dongmin) Hao, Yuan Gao (F1C) and Adia Wang.

The bonfire at West Wyalong.


MODEL ENGINES FLY-IN 2015

The early forecast for the day looked promising and that’s the way it turned out — a fine autumn day with warm sunshine and a very light breeze. This event is open to Phoenix and Seagull ARF aircraft, any aircraft driven by an OS engine or electric motor and any aircraft using Hitec or Multiplex radio equipment, which effectively means that almost everyone can take part. Attendance was reasonable but not as good as might be expected on such a fine day for flying. The falling attendance at these major events seems to indicate that it is getting harder to lure modellers away from the comfort zone of their home field.

The Model Engines crew brought their usual squadron, as can be seen in the title photograph, and with some nice prizes for the pilot’s draw and other modelling items sold at auction to benefit the club it was a highly successful day. Lots of flying and no serious losses. Highlights of the day were the demonstration of new Seagull ARF models of the Westland Lysander, Focke Wulf 190 and Stinson Reli-ant, together with another flight of the Ken Thomas / Mark Collins Me.323. The jets of David Law, Ken Mollison and Neil Addicott put on a fine display of high speed action and Stephen Green kept everyone on their toes with his Cassutt Racer and some low level flying.

Models in the pits, with plenty of space for more.


(Brett Reaby photograph)

A new model from Seagull this Focke Wulf 190 was flown by Neil Addicott. Model spans 2m and is powered by an OS GF40 four stroke petrol engine.

Another new model by Seagull, this Westland Lysander was flown by Mike Farnan. Model has a wingspan of 3m and is powered by an OS 50cc five cylinder four stroke radial engine.

Yet another new one by Seagull, this Stinson Reliant was flown by Cliff Fiddes and is electric powered.

A Flying Legends Hawker Hunter flown by Neil Addicott. 1.8m wingspan and powered by a 14kg thrust jet turbine.

David Law also flew a Hunter but with a slightly different colour scheme.




(Brett Reaby photograph) (Brett Reaby photograph)

The Hunter pair closing up their formation. Chris Warren launching a ducted fan version of the Me. 163 rocket plane.

Brian Evans’ “bitsa” constructed from the remains of a Maxi Lite and powered by a OS 40cc petrol engine.

David Law’s DH. Vampire in flight.

Gary Sunderland, probably discussing the finer points of WWI aircraft. Gary’s Bristol Scout has been around for a long time and still performs well.

Stephen Green’s Cassutt Racer powered by an OS Gemini 300. Rod Mitchell came up from Warrnambool to fly his Lockheed PV2 Neptune.


VICSCALE at P&DARCS

CONTESTANT MODEL RND 1 RND 2 TOTAL

S. MALCMAN CLIPPEDWING CUB 2200.5 2299.5 2352 1

R. GAUMANN PIAGGIO P.149 2172 2236.5 2278.5 2

G. WHITE EXTRA 300 1023 2241 2272.5 3

J. FINOCCHIARO J3 CUB 2031 2110.5 2196 4

T. GRIEGER GEE BEE 1918.5 2103 2174.3 5

G. SUNDERLAND FOKKER V.21 1842 1875 1912.5 6

W. WHEELER BN ISLANDER 1512 1566 1700.3 7

T. DE HAAN PIPER L4 1516.5 1630.5 1696.5 8

RND 3

2404.5

2320.5

2304

2281.5

2245.5

1950

1834.5

1762.5

CONTESTANT MODEL STATIC RND 1 RND 2 TOTAL

D. FINDLAY DH FOXMOTH 2745 2479.5 2581.5 5275.5 1

N. WHITEHEAD CT-4 2672.5 2353.5 2341.5 5020 2

RND 3

0

0

FLYING ONLY

SCALE

Following the trend of recent events at P&DARCS it was again an excellent day for flying but few elected to attend. The patchy sunshine and occasional bit of blue sky could not make up for the frigid air but with everyone dressed for the weather the competitors enjoyed the perfect flying conditions despite the cold air.

Bill Wheeler had problems with his 1/4 scale Druine Turbulent so he brought out his backup model — a foam, electric powered, Britten-Norman Islander and flew it into seventh place.

Roly Gaumann put on his usual polished performance with his Piaggio but could only gain a second place on this occasion.


Gary Sunderland and Anthony Mott contemplating a start-up with Gary’s Fok-ker V.21. The model is now powered by an OS BGX-1 two stroke in place of the previous OS 200 four stroke and has a more spritely performance.

The Fokker V.21 lifting off.

Anthony Mott took time off from his work on a new duration model to fly his Fokker E.III but unfortunately he neglected to turn off the onboard ignition system after charging and checking the batteries on the night before the event. No glow, no flying!

Noel Whitehead’s CT-4 back in pristine condition after it’s eventful flight at the State Field where the canopy swung open in flight, damaging the canopy hing-es and necessitating the replacement of some rear decking and the large fin strake.

Tony Grieger ready to fly his large Gee Bee, assisted by Gary Sunderland. The Gee Bee in flight. Placed fifth in flying only.



VICSCALE Victorian Flying Scale Aircraft

Association The Special Interest Group

for Scale Modelling in Victoria.

General Meetings of the 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 presenta-tion of new models as they are constructed, and discussion on building techniques by members.

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

THE GARNHAM TROPHY

Following the article on the Garnham Trophy in the April newsletter Howard Gostelow sent this picture of his 1983 Trophy winning Keil Kraft “ACE”. Built in 1982, Howard still has the model and it takes to the air occasionally.

Garnham Trophy Winners 1934 Feb K. Ellis 1934 Nov H. Halmshaw 1935 Nov K. Ellis 1940 A. Smith 1941 W. J. Wilson 1942 E. O. Gregory 1943 E. O. Gregory 1945-46 P. H. Renkin 1947 G. E. Mallet 1950 H. Forrest 1953 A. King 1954 C. Stones 1960 S. O'Connor 1962 J. Kenyon 1964 J. Gregory 1983 H. Gostelow 1984 C. Collyer 1985 J. M. Fullarton

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