Ramsey MAC

The recent visit by HRH The Duke of Gloucester after Warboys was named Cambridgeshire Village of the Year three times in the past 10 years at the national Calor Village of the Year competition, resulted in John Carpenter being asked to display his Lancaster in the parish church under the commemorative stained glass window to the Pathfinders. Robert Neilson accompanied John as chairman of the club, we also had past club chairman Steve  Kessel present in his role of chairman of the parish council. HRH The Duke of Gloucester showed great interest in the model and below are some of the pictures of the occasion.

Craig Cundey has Just started Flying lessons at Connington and has sent in a few  photos also work on the renovation of a  Spitfire down in Devon he has been helping with. see photo`s.

If you are doing an interesting challenge and a member then let me know.

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The Ban on Petrol and Jet Turbine aircraft during the harvest period has come into force until further notice.

All members on our email group list have been informed, if you are a member and have not received this email please get in contact with me via the contacts page.

RMAC Fun Fly Competition – Held Sat 3^rd July 2010-07-05

The competition consisted 3 events:

• Climb and Glide
• Touch and Go
• Team Relay event using a Club Trainer

The weather could not have been better.  Slight breeze in a very favourable direction with good clear sky and some cloud.  In short it was one of the best flying days of the year.  The turn out to the event was a bit disappointing but we went ahead to plan.

Climb and Glide

The Climb and Glide really sorted out those who had engines that would not stop.  Usually we want them to keep going!  Result:

1^st Craig Cundy – Time 7mins and 5 seconds (Aircraft Ripmax Nova Trainer with OS46LA engine.  A superb effort all round.

2^nd David Wilk (guest of Craig Cundy) 4 min 18 sec

3^rd Nigel Cundy 4 mins 17 secs

Jamie Harrold (junior club member) should be mentioned here as he used a Low wing model not ideal for this type of comp.  He had never tried anything like this before and achieved a notable 2mins and 59 seconds.  Very well done.

Simon Webb never did get his engine to stop and had to give up.  I nearly lost sight of my own Limbo dancer.  Next time I will try binoculars.  I was 4^th with 4 min 10 sec.

Touch and Go

Great event and very enjoyable.  We had put 2 chalk circles on the field.  Scoring was as follows:

5 points touch outside circle

10 Points for touch in the Outer Circle

15 Points for touch in the Inner Circle

20 point for a touch on the Bullseye

Ist           David Wilks using an electric Foam “Fun Cub” secret weapon.  He scored a Total of  14 Touch and Go’s Point Count was 200 including 1 bullseye.

2^nd Peter Snow using a Limbo dancer.  Total of 15 touches and score of 180 points.  (I got the most touches as consolation).

3^rd Jamie Harold using his low winger.  Total Touches were 10 with a score of 100.  (1 For a first time effort Jamie has to be congratulated on a really superb performance.

Team Event

This was won by Craig Cundy and Jamie Harrold

Overall Winner

Declared as Craig Cundy

Best Placed A Cert Flyer was Jamie Harrold

Overall Conclusion

A fun day which what it was all about  Those who did not come along missed out.

Link to PHOTO`s

SCALE DAY

20^th June 2010

As to be expected on the day before the summer solstice the weather started off drab, windy and a little cool.  However, nothing daunted our gallant team of barrier erectors were hard at work by 8:15 a.m. and a steady stream of cars began arriving to gradually fill the (temporary) car park.  By the time of pilot briefing it was clear that the event had attracted a bumper entry this year and the contest director was forced to announce that in order to have two rounds of flying the number of manoeuvres to be flown by competitors would be reduced from 10 to 8, thereby reducing the flight time per round.

Two types of competition were actually being held although the same two (unfortunate) flight judges and flight scoring system was used for both. Those who so elected could have their models statically judged and the combined static and flight score would comprise the F4c competition whilst those with flight scores only would compete in the unsurprisingly named ‘flying only’ competition.

Flying started at 10a.m. and proceeded at a brisk pace with competitors lining up and preparing to fly in the flight order on the scoreboard.  The wind was a little blustery but not so strong as to cause problems and there were few moments of high drama. However there was one casualty when Terry Manley’s beautiful Blackburn Kangaroo lifted off and promptly misbehaved itself to the point where it stalled in and tore its nose off.  This was a beautiful and well-detailed model of an unusual aircraft, which was generally expected to do well.  However, its owner had earlier responded to my enquiries as to its handling by stated that, to put it politely it was a bit of a bitch!  He was later heard muttering that it was going in the bin, but then we all say that after a crash.

Richard Scarborough giving his Yak 9 a bit of a seeing to in the grand style enlivened the lunch break.  I have never seen a WW2 war bird do things like that!

After lunch the weather began to improve along with the start of round 2.  By the time the event concluded we were in full sunshine, the wind had gone and the temperature was balmy. One excitement was the sight of Richard Crap’s Huge PT22 coming in to land with one undercarriage swinging loose after a bracket failure on take off.  The touch down and one wheel slide across the grass was magnificently real but sadly is not on the scorecard.

All in all one of the best scale competition at our field for some years with some fantastic models, including one that will be going to Poland later this summer for an International event. If you missed it you missed a great day

Oh, and in case you were wondering, I came nowhere important but had a great competition!!

Photos herewith are worth a thousand words and capture the event in all its glory, including the results.  Enjoy.

Link to photo`s

If you wish to enter the members only area you need a password which will be sent to you if you email rmacinfo@ramseymac.org.uk with your name and bmfa number and it will be sent to you if you appear on our members records.

This a members and guests weekend organised by members of the club and endorsed by the committee.

Fun flying competition          schedule list up on notice board.

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The club was invited once again to attend Ramsey Church Fete which we were happy to accept, the afternoon although poorly attended when measured by previous years  ended in us raising £60 to church funds from the chuck glider game. It is also worth mentioning the memory of John Stokes which more than once came about in conversation.

Thanks goes to Phil who brought along his aircraft for display and to those who made up the gliders, especially Mike Luscombe skills of building the “Rolls Royce” of Gliders. 

The new hut is now installed and the benches and table returned and ready to use , although there is still a second phase to fit a panel fence between the two cabins and to grass the area uncovered by the re-alignment of the new smaller unit, the aim is to fit an extension to the transmitter shelf on one side and to give a wind break to the other (BBQ) area.

The new hut will also be lowered as part of the second phase, the larger cabin has also been subjected to a refit with the store enlarged with new shelving fitted to give us a better storage facility, the addition of a workbench in the area recovered from the removal of the now redundant toilet section will give an emergency repair area out of the wind etc.

The bench area will have containers to hold (1) found items left behind by members and(2) one for surplus items for passing on (freebies) also it would be nice to have some items that could be used for on site repairs so if you are cleaning up the workshop please consider this.

The larger hut will continue to be the primary cabin and will keep the windsock and notice boards although there are first aid kits in both cabins.

Thanks to all who have helped in any way.