2017 AGM held on 6 December |

20 members attended the AGM |

Mick Addington (right) received the trophy for winning the Rookie
competition |

Mick Addington (right) received the trophy for winning the IC Fun-Fly
competition (clearly Mick's the one to
beat in 2018) |

Dave Harbour (left) received the trophy for winning the Open Electric
Glider competition.
(Mike Smith won the Elictric Fun-Fly
but was not at the AGM) |
November "Mole Patrol" |
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Andy points to where a moles - used to be. |
16 Oct - IC Fun-Fly |

Mick Addington (left) received his trophy for winning the overall
competition. Mick also won the "fastest 15 loops" and "2 loops-2 rolls"
rounds |

Dave Harbour received his bottle of wine for winning the "Climb and Glide" round (above) -
Bob Nicholson won
the "spot landing" round. |
8 Oct - Rookie
Competition |
Mick Addington won the first round of the Rookie competition -----> |

First Mick won a bottle of red for winning Rookie round 2 ....... |

--- then a bottle of white for being the winner the overall comp ..... |

.... then finally, the trophy! |
24 Sept |
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<---- Mike Wilson (left) received his commemorative "Tree" sticker from
Dave Harbour, after landing his glider in a ... erm ... tree!
Luckily with the use of poles, Mike's glider was recoverd. |
15 Sept |
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<--- Summer car park upgrade is now complete - click
here for the action-packed movie! |
NVA exhibited at the Rushden Model Weekend |
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6 August |
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<---- Congratulations to Kevin
Weaver-Pope (left) - here being presented with his A-certificate by Dave
Harbour |
July/August
Summer car park improvements - 40 tons of road planings have been dumped
on the summer car park -
awaiting a man with a JCB |
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<--- 2 July 2017 - John Turner (right) accepts
his prize from Andy Hibbert (the comp organisor) for winning the 1st
round of the Rookie competition |
Electric Fun-Fly 14 May |

This is what was at stake - selected wines (selected from the "on
special offer" shelf) and a prestigeous trophy
(made by Dave Harbour from solid stainless steel) ........ |

.... Mike Smith was somewhat pleased to learn that it was he, that had won
the trophy ....... |

.... and here he is being presented with said trophy by the club chairman
John Morse. |
Congratulation to Mike for a sterling
performance.
Mike swept (sorry) into the lead after winning the spot-landing
and climb-and-glide rounds for which he walked away with bottles of
wine. |

Mike Wilson won the ring-drop round ....... |

..... and Guy Bowden won the limbo round with 4 passes under the tape,
no mean feat. |

The competition was expertly organised by Andy Hibbert (left) who stood
in for Alan Smedley (aka Captain Pugwash) who was otherwise
occupied sailing his yacht round Britain. Andy seen here having his
calulations being scrutinised by experts, while others did
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......... running repairs. |
8-9 April - ModelEx at Windmill
School, Raunds |
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Thanks to all those that brought models to the
club's display! |
26 Feb |

Malcolm is consoled after re-kitting his Acrowot |
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Mick's Limbo Dancer - one of many currently in production |
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Above - "the few" huddled for warmth
Left - nothing glue won't fix |
5 Feb -
despite the mist, the hardy few were there! |
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First pictures of 2017 |
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< ----- Mike Wilson has mastered the art of
making and flying autogyros |
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There's plenty of room for more! |
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