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Nick’s Pics – Shepparton Mammoth Scale 2011

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Pylon Race @ Werribee (Q500/Boomerang/Sports) – This Sunday

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2011 F3D World Championships

 

Introduction

A number of Lilydale members participated as competitors and officials in the 2011 F3D World Championships.  The event was held in Bundaberg, Queensland from 10 to 14 August 2011.  

F3D radio control pylon racing is an international [...]

Helicopter Fun Fly, Photos, Sunday 17th July

It was a very windy but very good day, with no crashes, one interesting moment, and a flag cutting that looked and sounded awesome !! The windy conditions sure did test a few, but everyone pulled through with flying colours. The LDMFA can again hold their heads up high on holding another great day that was [...]

Results from the Novice Pylon Event

 

Nick Sage has provided photos and results from Sundays Novice Pylon event held at the LDMFA field. Here is Nick's comments on the day;

" It was great that the sun was out but it was very windy. I'm very pleased that crashes were minimal even though the wind did everything to try to cause more.  Sports Section [...]

Novice Pylon This Weekend – Sun 26th June

This sunday at LDMFA is our  novice pylon event ,for the fist timers and the experienced ,bring your trainers or anything and be part of a great club day, the fastest plane does not always win. We will be there to help  every one that enters ,rain, hail or shine .

Peter [...]

LDMFA Helicopter Fun Fly – Sunday 17th July

LDMFA will be hosting a Helicopter competition practice / Fun Fly on Sunday 17th July.

The format for the day will be 2-3 rounds (depending on number of entrants) of Novice, Advanced Schedules and F3C schedule A.
We'll put on a BBQ lunch and open the field at completion of all rounds for general flying.

Registration from 9:00am

Pilot Briefing [...]

Quickie 500 – Helmet Cam (Cohuna)

Recently, there was a pylon racing event held a Cohuna in which our club was well represented by a number of us (Gary Davidson, Jim Orenshaw, Tom Wetherill, James Hurley and myself). All 4 classes were raced over the weekend (F3D, Quarter Midget, Formula 400 & Quickie 500).

On the Sunday, while racing in the [...]

VMAA Trophy 2011 – Videos

A couple of videos from the VMAA Trophy competition and specifically the Musical Landings event. The first video is from an on-board perspective of Matt McNiece's Fun-Fly. Matt's plane was written off just a couple of rounds in. 

The second video is of John Warren's Stik flown by David Chivers which on landing turned a competitors plane [...]

VMAA Trophy Day 2 – LDMFA Wins!

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The events for Day two of the competition were;

Heli Novice Class – Jake Thornton 

Electric Glider – Lee Cutts

Musical Landings – Matt McNiece / David Chivers

Club Racing – Peter Bailey

Old Timer – Ray Chivers

Most Unusual – Brian Winch

Sundays competition built on the solid results from day 1 of the competition but the margin was narrow by the [...]