Combined Meeting - CLAG/Brimbank - held at Knox on Sunday Aug 28th 2011

Despite the forecast of gale warnings, a good turn up with a variety of models and skills. We managed to get continuous flights up until early afternoon before the winds finally ended the day. A number of flyers took the opportunity to discuss their models and their flying, and get a few tips from the more experienced.

A few highlights, apologies to others, my fading memory with limited re-call capacity.

It was great to see Matthew Shears deviate from the mania of combat to the relative gentile contrast of aerobatics. Matt had a new, very neat own designed model powered by a healthy Brodak 25. Matt put in a good number of flights in both the calm and windier periods and showed that his model is well balanced and very capable of excellent performance.

Doug Grinham flew his tried and trusted Jazzer with Retro 60 eee-awing (Doug’s description) happily at a very leisurely 5.6 to 5.7 sec lap. This design has to be one of the most enduring Aussie stunt designs, has seen many variations over the years, and have found themselves in the hands of many Aussie pilots, a most refined design, quite an icon indeed.

Mark Ellins flew his very impressive Yatsenko model, Peter Koch had a superbly running OS 40 FP powered (Brodak) Oriental that handled some very rough conditions quite comfortably. Alan Matthieson-Harrison took advantage of fine tuning a very neat flying Thunderbird (Mk1). Dave Lacey had a neat tissue and paint combo Dolphin, and Gavan Opperman flew a trusty (elderly) Stalker powered model (name of which escapes me Gavan). There were other flyers and another circle operating also.

Next CLAG-Brimbank contest event Vintage Stunt and Combat, Knox Nov 6.


Report and Photos courtesy of Craig Hemsworth