What an amaizing day!

After coming away from the Crest 2 weeks ago thinking that I was lucky enough to have been at a race that probably wouldn't be repeated for a few years, the race this weekend delivered record time after record time.  Conditions were'bigger' and tougher to even be on the hill.  Although I have to say I didn't fly it as well as 2 weeks ago Frank and the other Willow pilots demonstraighted just how fast they can go.  The willow could certainly handle the air better than I could.

Congratulations have to go the the sub 30 club pilots and especially to Martin for his 26second flight.  Just 2 hundredths of a second outside the record- thats about 6 inches at the speeds he was flying.

2 weeks to get ready for the champion of champions race- get your entries in- I will start to update the entry list this week.

The Trophy's coming on!

With a huge thasnk you to Adam for his help and the picture curtesy of Frank the Champion of Champions trophy is here!

3 weeks to the final!

airtronics servos and arms

Air tronics servos

  I’ve received my latest batch of airtronics servos.  They’re certainly my choice for the Willow wings.  I also have some spare carbon servo arms with this shipment.  As with most things you don’t need lots of these at any time so I’m selling them in pairs- £2 per pair.

  I’ll add a spare arm to each servo whilst I have them. So a servo plus spare arm is £40.

final round of the Northern League

Saturday sees the final round of the Northern Winter league.  based on the best 2 scores from 3 counting races, the top 15 possitions are shown here.  There are a number of pilots qualifying through different leagues and I've marked these- It's looking good for a tight finish to the season.

1	Mark Redsel	1,000.00
2	Martin Newnham	971.24
3	Rich Bago	964.15
4	Simon Thornton	960.32
5	Paul Garnett	949.04
6	Paul Upton	940.22
7	Pete Gunning	935.35
8	Tom Foreman	896.53
9	Mike McCracken	890.04
10	Frank Hulton	884.62
11	Mark Treble	859.12
12	Keith Wood	845.44
13	Ronnie Lampe	807.64
14	Jon Edison	803.42
15	John Tideswell	569.68

a few pics of the record breaking day

It's never easy having the time to take pictures with shuch a small field but..

Mike did his best to slow down for the camera

Tony's Energtic was going to be launched with or without his permission

Phew- went well then!

Number one- but for how Long?

About a minute!  That's the grin of a record holder

Champion of Champions

The leader boards are up for each league now.  Please can you confirm your league if you think I'm wrong and for those who have qualifed contact me to confirm your emtry

A PB for me and national record for him!

  I’ll down load the pictures later but it’s a rare thing to be happy to see the month in law arriving.  Her arrival on Saturday cleared to house of mice and meant that I could be off to race on the crest on Sunday.  After a later start and trek through the fog to set up the course we were ready for what promised to be a bog day.  My first round followed my usual pattern of half a round of slow and then 5 legs of ballistic air.  Then round 3 and I finally managed to hold on to some good air for 10 legs and a sub 40 recorded. After years of plugging away with other people’s models, to do it with my own is very sweet.

  The big boys were showing some real style on the slope with models ballasted up to the legal maximum and some truly classy smooth flying mid and low thirty flights were becoming the norm.  Stefan held the slope record for about a minute with a 30.06 before Abbo seemed to put a jet in the back of his Caldera and ripped up a 28.75.

  Huge thanks have to go to AJ, turning up time after time to make sure the comps happen.  

  What a day!