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Society Incorporated (Incorporated under the Association Incorporation Act 1984) Newsletter - May 2007 |
| Warringah
Radio Control
Society Incorporated (Incorporated under the Association Incorporation Act 1984) Newsletter - May 2007 |
Chris Hebbard with jet at Gloucester, lots of open space for safe flight but the field was too rough for landing on wheels |
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The next meeting will be held on Tuesday, 8th May 2007 at Tennis Cove, Eastern Valley Way, starting at 7.30 pm. The next meeting after that will be the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING on Wednesday, 27th June 2007 |
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POSITIONS VACANT Vice President Secretary Registrar & Treasurer 3 Committee Members |
Competition Director - Mark Rickard If prevailing weather conditions make you uncertain as to whether the event is being held or postponed, please check the Website on the morning of the event. |
 GARIGAL
CUP
- April '07 pics by Brian Porman and
Mike Minty
There were 13 entrants (12 fixed wing and
1 helicopter) in the inaugral “Garigal Cup” held at a beautifully prepared
Belrose flying field.
This contest was introduced with the aim of improving flying standards in the Club with a pre-requisite to entry being the holding of Gold Wing status. The programme for the event is the entire Gold Wing test manoeuvers, all the pilots could choose to bring along and compete with whatever craft they chose, and in fact there were a variety of models, tricycle undercarriages to taildraggers, from a pattern and bottom /mid wing planes to a warbird and even the heli. The competitors had to complete a total Gold Wing programme in each direction (left to right and then right to left) in 2 rounds. The judging was done by 4 totally independent guest flyers from the Illawarra Club who pride themselves at being at this time probably the best aerobatics club in NSW, all the judges compete in open competition and in fact Dave McFarlane is 3 times Australian champion.
 George
Atkinson, and his helicopter, even though he could not carry out any part
of the spins (which were worth a total of 40 points in each round, ie total
80 points), collected the second place $100 with 329 points.
Peter Pappas (right), placed third with 319 points, collected the $50 cheque The blank cheques to be made out to the Hobby Shop of choice were being presented when Model Aero Products CEO, Peter Coles, a credible 5th, offered to add 50% in value to the cheques if the recipients shopped at MAP. At the completion of the contest Val Pinczewski
loaned his pattern plane to Dave McFarlane, who proceeded to give a breathtaking
display of aerobatics which left everyone gobsmacked.
Some of the other competitors are pictured:
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MARCH CAPTIONAnyway, here they are: 1. Foreign Aid has arrived! 2. Bloody hitchhikers, GET OFF THE ROAD! 3. Ladies and Gentlemen, keep your seatbelts fastened, we are about to experience some bumps! If you have any alternative captions to the photos we publish, don't hesitate to share your humour with all the Members (the Editor reserves censorship rights!)I |
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Mike thought it must be a copy of a Piper Cub (or vice versa?) and he took a few pictures in case he ever builds another Cub and decides to make it something different. Here is one of the pics:  |
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Pictorial report by Andrew
Moss
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His hand moves to her breast. "Gee, honey, that feels wonderful.", she says. His hand moves to her leg. "Oh, honey, don't stop." she begs. But he stops................. "Why did you stop?" she cries ??? "I found the remote..." |
 ALEXANDER
ADOLPHUS DUMFRIES HENSHAWAlex Henshaw was born in Peterborough, UK on 7 November 1912 and by 1939 he had won the Hawker-Siddeley Cup in 1933, the King's Cup in 1938 and had set a solo record for a flight from Gravesend to Cape Town and back in February 1939.  It
was then that he saw and fell in love with the Mark1 Spitfire and he came
to be involved in the evolution of the Spitfire in November 1939 when he
joined Vickers, in June 1940 he moved to the Vickers plant at Castle Bromwich,
near Birmingham, where 320 Spitfires were produced each month, and he was
appointed chief production test pilot for Spitfires and Lancasters.
Henshaw flew over 2360 Spitfires and Seafires himself, he survived a number of potentially fatal engine failures and continued flying the Spitfires until the end of production in 1948. Alex Henshaw's remarkable personal history is too long to set out in detail (but which can be found easily on a Google search on the InterNet), from time to time Henshaw did scandalise the authorities, such as when he barrel-rolled a Lancaster bomber (the only pilot to have pulled off this feat) and when he flew his Spirtfire down Birmingham's Broad Street flying upside down and below the height of the Council House. His amateur flying was subsidised by a rich father and some prudent investments, and after the war he returned to business.
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 By the way, I've worked out the only advantage of old age ... it takes a long time! |
First Fatal Aircraft Accident—On Sept. 17, 1908, at 5:14 p.m., the Wright Flyer, with Orville Wright and First Lieutenant Thomas E. Selfridge of the Army’s Signal Corps First Field Artillery, took off from the parade ground at Fort Myer, Va., and circled the field four and a half times. Suddenly, a piece of one of the propeller blades broke off and the airplane plummeted to the ground from an altitude of about 75 feet. Orville survived ... Selfrige didn't. |
 WORTH
A VISIT!489A Albatross Road, HMAS Albatross, Nowra. Situated 8 km south west of Nowra and just outside the main gates of the Royal Australian Naval Air Station, HMAS Albatross Genuine 1930s aircraft include 6 Tiger Moths; Gypsy Moth, the oldest flying plane in Australia; De Havilland 89A Dargon Rapide and Dragon luxury passenger planes; 2 Klemm pilot trainers; Stearman bi-planes and many more. During the 1930s Aircraft flew over the North and South Poles and Mount Everest. Significant advances in aviation technology resulted in record breaking and racing aircraft and the 30's saw Australia produce more than its share of courageous pilots than would be expected from its small population. The Museum is open seven days a week all year (except for Christmas, Boxing and New Years Days). Pre-booked guided tours are also available (for groups of twenty or more). The museum's verandah overlooks the historic airfield at HMAS Albatross which has variously served the RAAF, the USAAC, the British Navy, the RNZAF and the RAN for more than half a century. Fundraiser airshows are also organised by the museum (in conjunction with the RAN) each April and October. More info: http://www.museum-of-flight.org.au/site/
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On
Sunday, 11 March a group of heli boys attended the field along with visitors.
The photo below is of the hovering Raptor 50 Titan of Hung Huynh in a low
inverted while Bob Flint, Lawrence Chiu and Benjamin Burrel (visitor) of
SSME Club look on (pictured left)
To
mark the 70th anniversary of the first flight of the R.J.Mitchell designed
Spitfire, in March 2006, the then 93-year-old Henshaw flew over Southampton
in a two-seater Spitfire, taking the controls once airborne.
