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The first round was held at the Bushfields Sports Centre on the outskirts of Peterborough. The hall is a superbly sealed space which has never failed to produce the benign air conditions required for such an important contest.

As per last year the format for the team selection is gathered from a competitors best two round performances from the three scheduled dates. The top competitors score on the day is awarded 100% with all other entrants receiving their respective percentages. This has proved to be hugely successful process always `down to the wire’.

There was a good attendance with competitors, fun fliers and spectators creating a fine ambience. The day was divided into three rounds for two competition flights to be recorded by each entrant. All flights are flown with 0.2grams of rubber, a third motor with a spacer of 0.4grams. 

An early marker was set by Bob Bailey (last year’s trials champion) with a superb 11mins15s, with Derek Richards & Mark Benns posting opening gambits in the early 10mins. John Shaw last year’s GB team member had a brace of mid 8min flights. Round two commenced with Bailey unable to reach the heights of his first flight however Richards & Benns upped their times to close the gap. The stable air throughout the day provided excellent trimming conditions with all of the fliers tirelessly in the air fine tweaking to better their duration for the final round. All improved their times except Bob Bailey who consolidated his first flight with his penultimate attempt.  

Congratulations to all who attended and flew making a splendid long & hard days flying, we look forward to Round Two in two weeks time.

Top 4 placing after Round One

R. Bailey                     100% (22.08- best 2 flights)

D.Richards                  98.34% (21.46 – best 2 flights)

M.Benns                      96.5% (21.22 – best 2 flights)

J.Shaw                        76.72 (16.59 – best 2 flights)

CL Speed results CL Speed Centralised Results 18-10-09 (142)

End-of-season 2009 Team Selection Leagues/Tables:

F2A & Open Speed F2A & Open Speed Leagues at end 2009 Season (167)

F2B Aerobatics F2B League at end 2009 Season (144)

F2C Team Race F2C Table at end 2009 Season (187)

F2D Combat F2D Team Points at end 2009 Season (144)

The BMFA Centralised Control Line 2009 Season has now finished.

It is with great sadness that I have to report Dave passed away in St Clare’s Hospice on the 8th October after a long battle with Cancer. Our sympathy goes out to his wife Margaret and Mark, Dean, NHeil and Sara.
Aircraft with model aircraft predominating were his main interest. Like a lot of aeromodellers of his generation, he was very aircraft minded and discovered Fairlop Aerodrome in the late 40’s that was the mecca for model flying in the London Area up to the mid 50’s. He was a member of the Chingford Model Flying Club, his local club for many years and Anglia MFC at the same time. Who can forget the dinner and dances he organised for the Chingford Club at Chesney’s in Chingford into the early 90’s.
In his late teens he aquired an MG TD, which he later changed to his pride and joy an MGB Roadster with red wire wheels that he was driving when we first became friends. All who flew at Wanstead Flats or Chingford Plains in the 60’s remember him turning up on in the MGB packed with models in the dickey seat wearing his peaked cap to keep his hair immaculate after a trip to the barber. Very suave and debonair but a less likely modellers mode of transport is hard to imagine.
He worked in the model trade over some years at Hobbies Store in London, Aviacolour in Gants Hill, Saturn Models in Colchester then finally for Crescent Models in Burnham on Crouch. He then drove busses for LT until his retirement.
I never saw anything get him down and he was a great person to count as a friend. To this end we shared a set of radio control gear when it was very expensive (approx 6 months wages) in the late 60’s, never having a cross word over who would fly next with it at any given time.
His cheery demeanour to all and sundry will be sadly missed by those who knew him especially his friends in the Essex Quiet Flight Association and Chelmsford MFA plus his many acquaintances in the modelling world.

Brian Austin

Download the Team Racing results from the Northern Gala here F2C Centralised & Northern Gala Results 13-09-09 (155)

Speed Results (already posted on 5th October & no change)

Speed, including F2A, has one more competition before it finishes for the 2009 season.

F2B Results 2009 F2B League (66)

F2B is now finished for the 2009 season.

F2C was not run because of too few entries & the F2C 2009 season is now finished.

F2D finished on 20th September for the 2009 season