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The final event for the year on the Oxford MFC calendar for FF competitions had a bit of a mixed (to say the best) forecast but we decided to go ahead and take advantage of the lighter winds earlier in the the day.

The winds produced some turbulence from the trees on the other side of the Thames but we needed to be up against the river to give us as much room across the meadow for the 60s max, even that proved to be on the limit by lunchtime

Star of the day was undoubtably Steven Middleton a newby to FF having flown RC for many decades. FF appealed so he bought an ex Jim Paton Etienvre Coupe and entered it in the Coupe d'Hiver class using a motor given to him by another club member. 3 maxes saw him take a well deserved win and his 2nd place with his own SAMS E20 in the E20 class was perhaps even more impressive. I hope we'll see a lot more of Steve

Some pics

Autumn Comp

Stephen Middleton with his Etienvre

The wind meant retrievals we long as I found with my own Etienvre

Bill and Trish Dennis prepare the Coupe

more pics

Martin Bennett with Colin Sharman's Classic A1

My small fleet- Piper Clipper and Etienvre

Paul Thomas with his E20

Simon Rogers with his Classic A1

more pics

 David King winds his Scale Duration model

Pete Browns models for the day

Charlie Jeffreys' Sea Nymph and Pjerri ( now missing in action)

I have some video I'll post shortly too

It's good to see Jim Paton's model doing well in new hands, keep up the good work !! Speaking of Jim, he died a couple of months ago and unfortunately I could not attend his funeral but understand that it was well attended by the aeromodelling fraternity.


Peter

Hi Peter yes there was good turn of Aeromodellers at his funeral. It's also comforting to know he spent his last morning doing what he loved flying his models on Port Meadow

There's a video now on Youtube which gives a flavour of the meeting

Thanks for putting up the video showing flying at Port Meadow, it brings back fond memories. I haven't been over there for yonks and dragging a wheelchair over there is not much fun ! Another one gone ah well.

Peter

Peter if you do fancy coming to one of our competitions we do have a car on the meadow which is available to ferry people and models from the carpark to the flying site and back on demand. We can arrange fetchermites as well or just come and chat