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Table of Contents - SEN 1395


  1. Looked to get hooked ?
  2. View from the sub-continent
  3. Are we moving?
  4. Big Al's Update


Looking to get hooked?

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Hello. Was not able to locate an email address in the newsletter archives for Jim Bradley, but was trying to track down some instructions for F1A and F1H towhooks that I wonder might have been manufactured or imported by him in the past? Very new to towline gliders, but looking forward to learning. Understand the general concept of the cartridges, but not the specifics of these (especially the plastic F1H). If instructions are available from anyone, would greatly appreciate a scan! Thanks - Carl Dowdy

View from the sub-continent

 



We fully concur with that vastly experienced Free Flight specialist and FAI administrator Martin Dilly when he says (SEN 1393) that we really do not need to prop up a kind of variation on a time-failed theme by proposing more non-FAI categories. 
 
After having made a come back to Free Flight after a gap of a full three decades, we note that the spectator appeal for the Free Flight classes in south Asia has, somewhere along the route, gone awry. 
 
However, I would disagree with the view that this is because of the fact that Free Flight is not 'attractive' and 'spectator oriented' enough to the present generation. 
 
Recent visits to former eastern European bloc counties and to Cuba have convinced me that once the state authority recognises Free Flight (builder-of-the-model rule in place or not) as a sport and incorporates it in the school curricula, Free Flight would, in due course of time, generate its own followers, and regain its past popularity, especially among school children.  The BMFA education programme may be flawed but it is I believe to be a right start and in the right direction.
 
Certainly, we cannot but agree with Martin Dilly that some Free Flight category models should be made as gadget-free as possible, and as a veteran English Free Flight practitioner recently communicated to me in  personal correspondence, 'buying success' as  opposed to building models can have disastrous effects on the very viability of the sport we so much love and celebrate.
Prasant Banerjee
31 Alimuddin Street
Kolkata 700016
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Are we moving?

 Is there light at the end of the tunnel?

I agree with both Mark and Martin.  Can we get them together to form a new FF Management Team?

Am I invited to the first such combo event at Lost Hills?

Thank you, gentlemen.

John Oldenkamp


Big Al's Update

Walt Ghio    This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

Just a reminder that the Big Al’s contest is on Memorial Day weekend, May 28th to 30th at Lost Hills flying site.  The contest notice is on the Lost Hills web site if you want to down load a copy.  Look under “upcoming events”; http://www.lhffmaa.com/index.html

 

As most of you know who read this web site we have an issue with the farmers at the Lost Hills flying site.  Somebody rode their motorcycle over the carrots and also damaged some irrigation pipe.  You will not be allowed to retrieve you model from the carrot field if it lands in it.  You are allowed to ride the roads between the carrot fields looking for a lost model, just do not enter the carrot fields.  I will have a notice with information on how to retrieve your model when you enter the contest.  This is an important issue and all flyers need to be responsible for their actions regarding a model that lands in the carrot field.  Just remember that you are on their property not the property that the Lost Hills Flying Site owns.  In the past, it was “ok” for use to walk in the crops and retrieve models.  Due to one flyers bad judgment this has been taken away for us.  We all need to be aware of the issues and not cause any more concerns with the farmers.

 

Those who plan on arriving early for this contest must obey the new rules for retrieving models that land in the carrots.  My suggestion is to test fly as far away from the carrot fields as possible.

 

We will not be using the South flying site for this contest.  It is too close to the carrot field.  We will using the existing parking location and then pick the contest location depending on the conditions.  Be prepared to move during the day if we have any drift conditions that will carry the models into the carrot fields.



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Roger Morrell