THE HISTORY OF V.A.R.M.S The Annual Diary 1990 - 2009
THE HISTORY OF V.A.R.M.S. The Annual Diary. 1990 - 2009
THE HISTORY OF V.A.R.M.S. The Annual Diary. 1990 - 2009
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model friends has never seen the like!!!!<br />
John and <strong>The</strong>o successfully undertook two aerotow flights that also created quite a bit of<br />
interest. Again, I suspect it may have been the first time some modellers had seen this aspect of<br />
flying.<br />
<strong>The</strong> State Field is certainly a great venue with plenty of space available all around. <strong>The</strong><br />
Northern Flying Group have done a fine job in getting the area up to a very high standard. Whilst it<br />
is a long way from the population centre of Melbourne, it will be available as a flying field for<br />
Victorian Modellers in the future which is a good thing.<br />
An issue for us is to encourage the VMAA to get an increased height clearance which is<br />
currently insufficient for <strong>The</strong>rmal glider. Also, perhaps funding could be made available for<br />
another site more towards this side of town?<br />
NOTE:<br />
<strong>The</strong> RCGA held the State <strong>The</strong>rmal Championships at the State Field in<br />
May 2008 as a two day event, and also intends to continue doing this in the future.<br />
February 2004 saw the passing of Leo O’Reilly after a long illness. Leo was the founder of Model<br />
Flight (South Australia) and was very involved in many aspects of modelling over many years both<br />
at State and Federal level. Leo was also an associate member (245) of VARMS many years ago.<br />
CAMPERDOWN – March ’04 (Labour Day weekend) Colin<br />
Collyer<br />
Another good Camperdown was enjoyed by many. Scale gliderer’s have very few competitions but<br />
we do have several good scale events. For Victorians, Camperdown is the only slope event and<br />
therefore attracts a different clan and this year was no exception with many arriving long before the<br />
long weekend, but I hear the wind was not booked so very little flying took place until Saturday<br />
arvo. I arrived Friday well after dark and it has just started to rain, and by morning there was quite<br />
a blow and still a few showers about. No flying so I went looking for a little local aerodrome..... did<br />
not find it but I did see some lovely local properties, one in particular suggested that there was a few<br />
bob knocking about. On entering the property over the cattle grid the drive was dead straight and
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