SEN issue 1117 - 22 July 2007

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Big Bird Down Under


Big Bird Down Under
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Hi Roger,
A report from Down Under
20 years ago the Brisbane Free Flight introduced a Coupe d'Hiver event called the Big Bird Contest with a beautiful porcelain stylised bird mounted on a wooden base as a perpetual trophy.  This event has been run each year attracting close to 20 entries on many occasions.  This year there were 16 entries.  The event is run as close as possible to Bastille day in accordance with this class originating in France.  This year we were faced with cold windy conditions with wind speed between 5 and 7 metres per second.  The sponsors of the event are Pieta deVisser and his wife Julie.  Julie contest directs the event and always makes a cake, provides tea and coffee and on occasions provides champage (to drug the opposition - I speak from experience).  High quality prizes and are awarded to 6th place.  This year the deVissers produced stickers for each competitor to mark the 20 year anniversary.  Competitors are also issued with competition numbers to wear on the day.  From our point of view this is the top Coupe event in Australia and certainly attracts the largest field of competitors in this category.     Fittingly, Pieter won the event this year which is just reward for the 20 year's devotion to running this class.  The Big Bird rules encourage BOM and specify no gadget models (no VIT,A/R,WW delayed prop etc) except for a DT.  First round is a 3 minute super max with 120 seconds counted and the remaining 60 seconds kept in reserve to decide a flyoff.  Results are as follows:

Big Bird 15th July 2007
Place Name           1   2   3   4   5 S/Mx Total
1 Pieter de Visser 120 120 120 120 120 60 660
2 Malcolm Campbell 120 120 120 120 120 54 654
3 John Lewis       120 120  87 120 120 60 567
4 George Baynes    107 120 120 120 120 0 564
5 Darren Jones     120 120 120 120  77 60 557
6 Bill Jones       120 120 120 120  69 60 549
7 Ben Lewis        120  77 120 120  91 60 528
8 Mark Armour      120  72 94 120 120 60 526
9 Des Slattery      85 120 120 70 95 0 490
10 Albert Fathers  120 116 48 45 83 50 412
11 Ron Munden      85 72 120 58 58 0 393
12 Van Richard-Smith 50 118 120 45 59 0 392
13 Di Richard-Smith 95 34 67 81 48 0 325
14 Sonya Burfein      0 28 68 120 0 0 216
15 Graham Maynard    31 0 0 0 0 0 31
16 Brian Taylor       3 0 0 0 0 0 3
Cheers
John Lewis (BFFS President)

 

Roger Morrell