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<-- Look what one of our members got for Christmas
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AGM held 3 Dec 2014 |
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<--The AGM was held 3 Dec - the committee remains
the same for 2015. Steve Thom (left) received his trophy for the IC
fun-fly from Dave Harbour.
Sadly Jeff Barringer could not make it to
pick up the Rookie trophy and Adrian Baseley and Andy Whiting, winners
of the electric fun-fly and open electric glider comps respectively,
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3 Dec |
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<-- sometimes you have to be inventive! |
21 November - Dave
Harbour was presented with a merit award at the BMFA awards evening |
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New Starting Benches - Merlin, Griffon and Olympus
(Merlin is reserved for Dave when
he's in residence - becasue ke made them)
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16 Nov (not ideal
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1 Oct |
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<--- Congratulations to Malcolm Madden (right) who
passed his A-certificate test today! |
IC Fun-Fly 8 Sept |
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Steve Thom (left) won 2 rounds for which he received a bottle of wine
each plus this prestigious trophy for winning the overall competition. |

Ray Cox won 2 rounds but was pipped for first place in a fly-off. |

This what the competitors were fighting for ....
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An impromptu committee meeting - trying to make sense of the rules! |
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Flying on 27 July. |
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< ------ Here we see Alan modelling our summer
club uniform ... OK a group went to Cosford and it rained a bit - well
quite a big bit. (Sorry for putting this picture up Alan, Dave made me
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Rookie round 2 held on 13 July |
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Left - The competitors: L-R John Morse, Mick
Addington, Dave Harbour, Jeff Barringer - Alan Smedley (kneeling)
At the time the picture was taken Alan's plane had
gone AWOL - luckily it was later recovered
Below - Congratulations to Jeff Barringer who won the
round and was the overall winner of the competition - here seen
receiving the trophy from Dave Harbour who organised the competition. |
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Rookie Round 1 held on 15 June |

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Above: The Rookie Round 1 Competitors L-R Mick
Addington, Guy Bowden, Chris Dickens, Dave Harbour, John Morse, Jeff
Barringer, Alan Smedley
Left: Alan Smedley (left) collects his prize for
winning the round from Dave Harbour .
(note the hand over the label - Chateau Netto me thinks) |
Electric Fun-Fly 18
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The Competitors |

Adrian Baseley (left) is presented with his
trophy and goodies for overall winner, from the Chairman John Morse.
Adrian also won round 1 for the greatest number of 8s in a minute.
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Mick Addington won round 2 - the spot landing |

Alan Smedley won round 3 - climb & glide |

Ross Baseley won round 4 - the limbo |
One
that didn't quite make it! |

Some of the spectators enjoying the sun |
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25 April |
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30 March |
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Some of the models made by Giuseppe
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...... and
another one roosting in the treetops ..... (2 Feb) |
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22 Jan 2014 |
25 Jan 2014 |
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5 Jan 2014 |
The first tree landing of the new year .... |

... luckily Bob the Builder Fireman was on
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