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2006 VMAA Trophy
Doncaster Aeromodellers
-- taking it to a double hat trick -- 6 in a row with wins in 2001, 2002,
2003, 2004 and 2006, and an equal first place in 2005!
There were many highlights as always,
so let me touch on them with the results.
Saturday saw four events flown in some
rather chilly weather (what did happen to Autumn??). The results were:
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ARF Scale Aerobatics
-- 2nd place to Daniel Travassaros. A great effort by Daniel who
has developed some consistency in securing 2nd place in this event,
and 1.5 bonus points for being a junior (so outscoring all the rest
of the team!).
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Fun Fly
-- 1st place to Cliff McIver. Despite many concerted efforts to
beat him, Cliff continues to remain king of this event and underpin
the team results.
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Fun Scale
-- 1st place to Noel Whitehead. Our regular competitor on a world
scale delivered a stunning performance (and regained his traditional
position as number 1 after a slight slip last year).
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Helicopter
-- 3rd place to David Ankers. This was a new event this year and
very closely fought across a number of rounds. Well done to David
in his first VMAA competition for DAC and for a great result.
This left us feeling good, but both
Latrobe and PARCS Clubs were hard on our heels and we needed to continue the
quality of flying into the Sunday. And that is what we did:
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Club Racing -- 1st
place to Dennis Travassaros in his first appearance in this event.
This is a great event to watch and a real adrenalin kick for the
pilots. Dennis came through in spades under stiff competition from
an experienced and talented field. A cool, calm approach won the
day!
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Musical Landings
-- 1st place to David Gibbs. After writing off our traditional
model last year, we innovated this year and flew an electric powered
foamy! The risk paid off and it withstood a bit of a battering to
outlast all others and take the day!
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Old Timer Duration
-- 3rd place to Kevin Fryer in another very tightly fought
competition against his old arch rivals. After turning up for the
last two years and having weather prevent the event being flown, it
was great to get in a four rounds of flights.
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Most Unusual Model
-- 3rd place to Fernando Monge. After being denied its flight last
year through bad weather, the eyeball got to do its thing and did it
well. While the flying was excellent, we could not compete (or did
not want to compete) with the spectacular demise of the winners (see
gallery below).
Late withdrawls meant we did not
participate in either the Seven Cell or Thermal Glider events -- leaving
them wide open for our strongest competitor in the form of PARCS. We need
to do better here next year guys!
Congratulations to all who competed
and to the VMAA for organising a great event.
Seven in a row in 2007?
David Gibbs
(Click
on photos for enlargement)
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A flying car (unusual model from P&DARCS) |
A flying wing (unusual model
fromVMAA)
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Mirror Image (unusual model from
PARCS)
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Fernando, Juan Fernando and Cliff
with our unusual model -- a flying eyeball |
Mirror Image after 'pilot ran out of
skill' incident)
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Cliff accepting the team trophy |
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Fernando getting his medal |
Daniel getting his medal
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Dennis getting his medal |
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Cliff getting his medal
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The team (who were there on Sunday)
getting their medals
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The results (top 6 results per club
count) |
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