Control Line Aircraft Society of NSW 2010 State Championships Results and Pics

[Warren Leadbeatter]

Control Line Aircraft Society of NSW 2010 State Championships

What an excellent weekend it was and well worth the 230km trip for me and my family. Although I wasn't the only one to come a long way. Russell Bond made a far greater 1370km trek from South Australia to fly F2B.

The weather was perfect and it couldn't have been better in fact for this time of year. The field was moist but firm and no mud puddles like last year. The temps were from around 2 deg C to about 18 deg C.

I am very pleased with my improvements since changing to electric flight.

Results and pics follow...

F2B Expert
Judges: D. Simons & J. McIntyre

1st Mark Batty, Profile Sukhoi, OSLA46, 1019.48 pts
2nd Murray Howell, Yetsenko Shark, Retro 61, 1017.38 pts
3rd James Batty (son of Mark Batty), Profile model, Brodak 40?, 941.28 pts

F2B Advanced
Judges: P. Turner & B. Hoffmann

1st Robert Graham, Genesis, ST46, 899.58 pts
2nd W Swane, modified o/s Nobler, ST46, 878.56 pts
3rd Warren Leadbeatter, eVector, Turnigy SK3542, 872.86 pts

Classic Stunt
Judges: P. Turner & B. Eather

1st Reg Towell, Thunderbird MkII, ST46, 520 pts
2nd Frank Battam, 57 Nobler, ST46, 480.5 pts
3rd Warren Leadbeatter, 57 Nobler, Fox 35, 465.5 pts

Vintage Stunt
Judges: R. Towell, W. Smith

1st Frank Battam, Jamison Special, 309 pts
2nd Dennis Percival Barnstormer, 290 pts
3rd, Don Keyssecker Lil Duper Zilch, 284.75 pts

[Warren Leadbeatter]

Pics

[Paul Taylor]

Very Kewl Warren!!!

Nice photos!

I hope you still burn some castor.

[Warren Leadbeatter]

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[Michael Boucher]

Hi Warren, Cool P-38, do you have any information on it?  Did you get a picture of the profile SU-26?  Thanks for posting this. Mike

[Warren Leadbeatter]

Yes Paul!  My 57 Nobler that I fly in Classic runs a Fox 35 with 29% castor oil!

Michael, the pic IMG_2457 is the profile SU-26, (basic looking model, excellent pilot) the P-38 or Mosquito or whatever it is belongs to Matt Spencer and runs 2 x OS 35s, wingspan is 2 metres and it flies anticlockwise. Sounds great and flies well.

Vintage Pics....

[Clancy Arnold]

Congratulations Warren, 3rd in F2B Advanced and 3rd in Classic.  Keep that up and they will boot you up to Expert!

Not a bad days work (FUN).  I enjoy looking at pictures of planes to see the color schemes that others have came up with.

Clancy

[Dennis Adamisin]

CONGRATS Warren, all & all a good days work.  Thanks a bunch for the pix too - lots of good looking birds.

[Warren Leadbeatter]

It was actually held over 3 days guys. We just had our Queens Birthday Long Weekend. (formerly known as Cracker night, because we used to have bonfires and fireworks to celebrate the Queens Brithday, but that's not allowed anymore lol)

Saturday was F2B Expert and Adv, Rounds 1 and 2, Sunday Rounds 3 & 4, and Monday was Classic and Vintage Stunt.
While we were flying aerobatics, on Saturday on the same field was Vintage Combat and  Slow Combat while on Sunday we had F2D combat, plus Vintage Team Racing as well.  

At one point on Sunday while my daughter was demonstrating her skills flying our Electric Baby clown, there were 3 x Vintage team racers on one circle, 2 x F2D Combat models battling on another, plus an Expert F2B flyer on the third circle all in the air at the same time.  It was great!

By the way, Bruce and I are still the only two competing with electric powered models, but there is lots of interest among the other fliers, so maybe next year will be different.

Here's me flying in High Definition in round 3 I think.



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Cheers

[mike hartung]

Great post Warren, thanks very much.

[john e. holliday]

Thanks for the great pictures and the little video clip.  And Matthew has given up on the Folkerts?  Or is there two of them?  Beautiful flying site also.

[louie klein]

Great report! Who says C/L is dying.---"dead stick" LOUIE 

[M Spencer]

The Folkerts!  John. would you like a picture of the Crate of Aeroplanes . 1200 bucks to trash a years work. definately extortion . Shouldve stuck to motorcycles ? .

Id look a bit silly trying to fly what was left, tho therel be another built and maybe one for a sixty one day. All crates of competion grade balsa accepted gratefully !

The white device in pic is the Yak 1. The car took priority over sorting the P-38 ,just test flights there. Attrocious score in part the FP40 (mk 1). will reengine 21/40.