The club has been invited to attend the Welland Gliding Club at their site on the evening of the 6th of August. We have been invited to go and fly at their site and meet the members. There will be a BBQ provided afterwards. The club have an event week at this time each year. The Club is on the Thrapston road near Brigstock. Details of how to get there are on their website www.wellandgc.co.uk. the event will start at 6.00 pm.

Hi all,

I would like to thank all those who attended the 2 day event this year we had a good turn out, and all the members at Corby club who helped to put this event on.
The weather gods were with us this year, we were graced with warm sunshine light winds and blue sky. Saturday saw a lot of good flying with display pilots performing some brilliant aerobatic displays. All pilots were making the most of the weather and it was constant flying all day.

Day 2 Sunday

The good weather continued for us and the first of the competitions the A comp started at approx 11.30am. This was flown over 1 round with 4 set manoeuvres, we had a good turn out with some good flying from some pilots who had only passed their a test a short while ago.
In third place was Lee Drewnicki second was Tony King from the Ogees club and in first place was Daimon Mcmaster


The B comp was up next again 4 set manoeuvres flown over 1 round so engines had to be on song as there is no second chances, in first place Lee Waples, second Brian Cooper both from the Ogees club and third place was tied between, Chris Harle and Carl Ward both from the Corby club.


We had a short break for lunch then went straight into the pre 1950 scale aerobatic comp. This was flown freestyle to music and for 4 minutes. We had a variety of aeroplanes several Spitfires, Mustang, Me108 to name a few. To see so many Spitfires in the air even though they were only models was nostalgic and the evocative shape of this icon left a lump in the throat, as the Spitfire was a symbol of hope and defiance in those dark days of 1940. Some nice flying was done by all competitors but the eventual winner was Brian Cooper flying a Kyoto 72 inch Spitfire powered by a 28cc petrol engine, second place was Graham Boycott flying a YT International 72 inch Spitfire and in third place Gary Pope flying a 72 inch YT International P51D Mustang.


The final comp was the aerobatic freestyle flown to music for 4 minutes, again the standard of flying was high and flown to a variety of music. The winner of this comp was the same person who won it in 2007 and probably would have won it last year 2008 should the weather have allowed it to go ahead. So the winner is Lee Wales from the Ogees club, second place was Brian Cooper again from the Ogees club, and in third place was Carl Ward who put his aircraft through some very nice flying.

So to sum up, the event went well the weather was lovely the standerd of flying was high and there were no accidents.
I hope everyone had a good time, thanks to Richard Russell who did yet another good job on the burger stall and for doing such a good job of cutting the grass, to Paul webb, Mick Bailey, Daimon McMaster, Carl and Darren Ward for putting up the new tent, to the pilots from the Ogees club who always come and put on some brilliant flying displays and took most of the silver ware too, to the IMAC pilots who once again put on some brilliant flying displays and if I have missed anyone please accept my apologies.
I wish everyone safe flying and hope to see you all next year.


Graham Boycott

More pictures from the event can be found here.
Thanks to Tony for the fantastic pictures.