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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 [...]

Display Day 2011

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All agree this years display day was an outstanding success with a large crowd all day and non-stop flying to keep them entertained. The day was also a fantastic photo opportunity with our resident photographer Nick Sage getting some great photos. Some of Nicks photos are shown below. To see allof Nicks photos follow this link.

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 [...]

Display Day Video

Video from the Display Day 2010 is up on YouTube. So if you were too busy cooking pancakes for mum and didn’t make it down to the field, grab a cuppa and see what you missed. It’s about 22 minutes long and includes some onboard video from one of the combat fliers that captures many near [...]

A Trip Down YouTube Lane

It’s amazing what you can find on YouTube when you put your mind to waste some time and just start following links from one video to the next. I was doing just that when I came across a video that had a funny looking VTOL contraption struggling to get off the ground. I quickly recognised the [...]

Pylon Practise at Bendigo

Take a minute to watch this footage of Rick , Tom and Igor (all Lilydale members) practicing pylon at Bendigo club the Sunday before last in very windy conditions.
We will be representing the club this week end at A.M.P.R.A and my father will be taking some good film equipment and put together a film of our [...]

E2C Maiden Flight by Alex Evans

Links to the videos referenced in this months newsletter.

Taking off

Flying around and [...]

Video from VMAA Trophy

The video below was taken over the two days of the VMAA Trophy 2010. We have Jake flying Heli, a really big scale Cessna and Matt Bailey’s Edge 540. The latter half of the video clip is all from the “Keychain cam” on Matt McNiece’s Fun-Fly. The tiny camera mounted on the rudder captures a few [...]

Video of club from the Keyring camera on the Raptor 50 Thursday night

Still needes some work in getting the camera stable will try on a electric plane [...]