The 2 day event this year was unfortunatly disrupted by the weather, we had drizzly rain on Saturday and high winds on the Sunday, so the competitions and display flying were all cancelled on the Sunday. The only good thing about that is we still have the trophys !!.

However all was not lost, as on the Saturday the drizzly rain stopped mid afternoon allowing a few hours for flying. We had YT International display team put on a good display with their warbirds ME 109s, myself and Mark Owen went up after they came down and flew our Spitfires to the Battle of Britain music and Franny also flew his new Extra. YT also displayed a variety of other models, unfortunatly their september sea fury was damaged due to technical problems.

Imac team displayed their models to their usual high standerds. The lads from Wellingborough club Lee Waples and Brian Cooper also put their models through their paces, remembering the weather was not good for flying we also had very low visibility, 100 feet up and your model would vanish so the standered of flying had to be good.

Malcolm flew his YT International Tiger Cat which looked superb and had a real presence in the air, unfortunatly on his second flight one of the engines stopped causing it to come down in the field which did some damage to the aircraft.

Dispite the weather we had a good turn out of people and the burger stall did a good trade so i would like to say thanks to Richard Russell as he was very busy through out the day.Thanks also go out to the trade stands who turned up,YT International, Imac flyers, the lads from Wellingbourough flying club and everyone who flew trying to make the most of a damp / dull day and the spectators who turned up.

Thanks also must go to the following members of the corby flying club as without their help the event would not get off the ground. Daimon, Jim, Mick Bailey, Chris Harle, Franny, Carl Ward, Martin Scott, Paul Webb, R Russell, Frank Seymore who could not attend, Mark Owen and the 2 young lads which i have forgotten their names. If i have missed anyone out please accept my apologies.

Lets hope next year the weather will be kinder for us.

Thank you all again
Graham Boycott

Jim has uploaded a number of photos taken from the event here. Feel free to add your own photos.

Mick Manning has offered to arrange a minibus/coach to goto this years LMA Cosford show on the 19th & 20th of July.
If you are interested then please reply to this post with your preferred day.
Further details LMA Cosford 2008

June Funday Results

Climb & Glide

This time the climb and glide was done a little differently. Due to the low clouds the climb time was reduced to prevent the loss of any models. We also has a mass launch. Everyone lined up on the patch and headed skywards together, when the time was up everyone had to stop thier engines and glide to the patch as slow as possible. Below are the results. Note that despite not competely stopping his engine Daimon still managed to come last!

Name	Model	Time
Carl Ward	Cougar	2:23
Darren Ward	Cougar	1:43
Mick Hannant	Extreme	1:37
Malcolm Harle	?	1:06
Daimon McMaster	Ultra Stick	1:02

Touch & Goes

This event had the pilots flying one at a time. The goal to complete as many circuits as possible where each circuit includes a touch down on the patch. Nearly all the contestants for this one decided to fly the circuits with them in the center. Both Frannys and Daimons flights included a number of 'interesting' moments.

Name	Model	Circuits
Darren Ward	Cougar	11
Carl Ward	Cougar	10
Daimon McMaster	Ultra Stick	10
Malcolm Harle	?	10
Mick Hannant	Extreme	10
Francis Eady	Trainer	7

Congratulations to the winners and thankyou to everyone that took part.

Don't forget Sunday 1st June for a club funday.

There will be a BBQ and all the normal events ...

Climb and Glide.
Spot Landing.
Touch and Goes
Loops.