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World championship F3J  

The 2010 FAI Word Championship for Soaring Model Aircraft (F3J) will be organised by the Comité Départemental d’AéroModélisme du Jura (CDAM 39) on behalf of French Federation of AeroModelling (FFAM) from 31th July to 8th August on the Dole Tavaux airfield.

 http://www.f3jfrance2010.fr/  

UK team

Mark Devall

Colin Paddon

Austin Guerrier

Video clips

Photos
last week I gave the wrong address to Laurie's photo album it should have been

http://www.flickr.com/photos/laurie-hughes/ 

There are some remarkable images on this site, Laurie's 300mm prime lens takes some cracking photos

2010 BMFA British National Championships
Bank Holiday weekend 28-30th August

Paul & Tracy Gurr are planning a GMFC camping trip to the Nats at Barkston Heath Nr Grantham Lincs

Camping is £18.50 /person if paid by the 23rd Aug. £20.00 on the day.
Note; A camping pass allows full access to all events for the weekend with no further charges. Book with BMFA online or by phone.

Paul & Tracy have some tents available on a first come first served basis.

Reg has released the August edition of Modelflight http://www.modelflight.regheath.com/ 

Gloucester MFC

Autumn Barbeque.

Sunday 12th September all day.

All your usual favourites cooked fresh all day.

After the midsummer disaster caused by the lack of Pork & Stilton sausages a pre order for 50 Kgs has already been placed.  

No flying please

Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th September

Please ensure that work has finished before you start flying.

There may be members of the Auto grass club carrying out various task outside these dates & times, please be vigilant and work together to ensure safety for all. It will be necessary to move all our bits and pieces to the container or elsewhere prior to both race meetings. 

Chris Bishop,  Chairman GMFC

SCSA News
The SCSA are to fly a F3J competition against Malvern SA at Fish Meadow Upton upon Severn 15th August,  see http://www.scsa.org.uk/phil/news67.htm#thermal for full details.
There will be a practice session this week or next
We would welcome supporters and help. The comp takes place at a slow place, there would be plenty of time for you  to give flat field thermal flying a try

18th Aug HLG comp Wednesday evening 7.00PM Minchinhampton. Any model that can be hand or bungee launched can be used.. Three bungees will be laid out and a series of tasks set
This is the last of the fun comps for the summer, see last years report http://www.scsa.org.uk/comp09/hlg.htm  
We will go to the Bear about 9.00PM, only 5 people attended the last meeting, we will decide weather to hold the September and October meetings.

Monday
A strong breeze at Selsley, but not a great deal of lift, Bill's Calypso went well and made a lot of noise. Alan flew his MU13
photo: http://www.ebley.plus.com/photo/xxxl-landing-selsley.jpg 

Tuesday
Good lift at Frocester, Tim's Blade was hurtling about
Photo Bryan's Fox

 Wednesday
 We flew at Frocester, but the wind was on Selsley, this made landing a challenge. Tim flew his Easy Glider, the Spektrum receiver lost its signal for a while, but recovered before it crashed, reason unknown.
My Slipstream failed to gain any real height 

Thursday
A strong breeze on Selsley, but on the point giving variable slope lift. A Blade met a MiriJ in the air and came of worst but looks repairable.
I bought a Starlight 2000 3.3M F3j lunch time and gave it a try, it coped OK, but it came without the ballast which it needed to fly well in the strong wind. 

Friday
I went to Frocester where the wind was a little too south to give good lift

Saturday
Smooth lift at Frocester, some thermal activity

photo: Tim's blade

Sunday 
A light breeze at Frocester, with mostly good lift, The wind was light enough for John to fly his Gentle lady, but a bit too strong for my HLG. Bryan flew his scale Fox and foam Discus. Peter's  Sting was the best flyer of the morning, - very fast. Alan King's Sid King Top Line was well suited to the lift, this must be one of the best polyhedral models ever made. My Starlight 2000 was able to keep going when the lift faded.
The wind swung round to Selsley late morning, but we stayed and coped with the landing problems
I had the brief please of flying a Shadow 3.7 metre F3J, this model is a great flyer, easy to thermal and has a good speed range. 

more photos at http://www.ebley.plus.com/photo/?M=D  

Newly listed items

30/07/10

20/07/2010
For sale  

Surplus to my fleet is a Duncan Hutson Sirocco model, (no longer available) some minor work and general tidying up required to get it in the air.

Airframe with air retracts, tank and valve, wing servos fitted (72inch span and has flaps) needs a 60plus 2c or 90FS engine.  

£125 ONO  

Phone http://www.glos-mfc.co.uk/forsale/  on 01453 767670 or 07812 492690

Another airframe for sale, nice looking Cessna 172 with servos fitted in fuz, needs servos in wing.

Suggest a 90 fs would be good in this. 72inch wingspan.  

01453 767670  

£100 ONO

Phone Nick on 01453 767670 or 07812 492690  

12/07/2010
Wanted: decent sized (over 1m) electric foam trainer (not a V-tail) RTF will pay upto £70. Please contact Ben at benpee4player@gmail.com thanks