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42 Victorian State Thermal Titles - Brigg's Field 27 April 1997, A smoothly run event with 27 entrants having a good days flying in very good conditions. Five rounds were flown with the best four to count towards the final score as per the Aus. Open Thermal Rules. 1st Tim Mellor 4000 pts, equal 2nd Gerry Carter & Max Kroger 3997 pts.(See Contests) May 1997 - Runways laid down at Brigg's Field for the initial introduction of Power (Internal Combustion) aircraft. 1 June 1997, Open Day at Brigg's Field with almost all forms of model aircraft flown on the day, Aero-towing, Electric flight, Helicopters, Competition gliders, Sport power and Chuck gliders, all flew at the field during the day. Over 100 people enjoyed the day with VARMS providing a barbeque lunch. The Power field strips, Glider area, Hut surrounds and car-park are now serviced by a recently purchased ride-on mower. L. S. F. Tournament - Jerilderie - 7/8/9 June 1997: 1st Alan Mayhew (VARMS), Winning Team - VARMS (Tim Mellor, Alan Mayhew, Des Bayliss, Gerry Carter, Scott Lennon, Greg Voak). HITEC TROPHY OPEN EVENT 1. Max Kroger 1919 1. Rod Watkins 4931 2. Des Bayliss 1855 2. Gerry Carter 4884 3. Jim Robertson 1516 3. Alan Mayhew 4853
1997 - 98 The Committee President Tom Wickers Secretary Max Haysom Treasurer (Vacant) & Barry Dundas Contest Director Peter Cossins Editor Alan Connelly Fund raising Committee Members Jim Robertson & Site Liaison Graham Partridge /John Gottschalk July 1997 saw the 50th Nationals (for 1996/97) held at Darwin N.T.: Thermal 1. Rob Benton 2. Brett Solanov 3. Graham Roberts F3J 1. Rob Benton 2. Alan Mayhew 3. Brett Solanov HLG 1. Ray Pike 2. Theo Merrifield 3. (Miss) Kieren Pike 43 September 1997 - World F3B Championships - Ankara, Turkey. The team to represent Australia was Gerry Carter & Tim Mellor from VARMS, & Greg Voak (W.A.). The following excerpt from Gerry Carter's very complete and detailed report is included to demonstrate some of the things that can happen during International competitions. "The first days practice was not good, I managed to destroy another glider (leaving two, one new, one borrowed) and an hour later Gregg did the same thing, destroying a brand new Calypso Cobra. Tim gave his model its maiden flight without mishap and sorted out some problems with his winch which had been run, but never used to launch a model before. The second days practice at this field was safe. No mishaps. Greg elected not to fly. The first Official Practice day at the Official field arrived. Winches were set up downwind and pilots were routinely towing around to the other side of the turnarounds and launching back into wind, something we had heard about but never done or even seen before, however, we tried and got better as the day progressed." October 1997 - State Slope Championships held as a Pylon only event. The U-2 - A Postscript To commence this topic with a nostalgic trip back into time: Aspectivity 201 April '89 reports that at the March General Meeting a 'Club project" was initiated by Jim Robertson, being the building of a PSS Lockheed U-2 with the following specifications: Wing Span 4480mm 14ft 8in Length 2210 7ft 3in Root chord 490mm 1ft 7 1/2in Tip chord 130mm 5in (from Aspectivity 294 - October 1997 - Author anonymous) For relatively new members or those lucky enough to have forgotten, the U-2 was a VARMS Club project to build a biggish scale glider trainer! This was way back in the early nineties or should that be the roaring early nineties, as it needed a roaring gale on the slope to fly. And she flew. Like most democratic committee/group projects the various compromises made in its design and constructions resulted in it exceeding its design weight of 25 lbs by, I am reliably informed, some 23 lbs. The two amazing things though are that it was eventually finished, a TAD overweight, but finished, and the thing flew! Flight for the U2 though was fraught with a fair degree of peril and some comedy. The nominated pilot was usually on Rohypnol (at least) and the launch crew, the runners, grunters and heavers, looked like a bunch of caber tossing sumo wrestlers trying to run in step whilst grunting and heaving the beast into the air. Resurrection Whilst at Tom's (Wickers) factory cadging a bit of welding a month or so ago the subject of
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