Dave Wilshere and Jamie Cole came along to take part in the competition and fly demos for the event.

As soon as he arrived, Dave Wilshere had this electric
ducted fan ready for take-off. No wheels, it slides along
the grass.

Difficult to catch with the camera, going past like a bullet!

Parked again - it's powered by a 3 cell 2100 LiPo pack.

This Wren powered L39 was next to go for a flight.

Another difficult aircraft to catch on a fast flypast. This was
flown a number of times over the weekend,
very impressive indeed.

Fast low passes, huge loops, slow rolls - superb !

With a smooth touchdown every time on the grass strip.

Wren turbine neatly tucked away with a flap for access.

Jamie Cole spends most of his flying time upside down.
Must be using funny fuel.

Upside down backwards....

Caught here the right way up, but look at the exhaust trail.

Some sort of a backwards inverted loopy thing.

Usually very close to the ground !

The scores of the 3 tasks are added together to give a total for the event.

Task (1) involves flying a figure 8 circuit around
2 poles and the object is to fly as many circuits
as possible in the 2 minutes.

Task (2) involves knocking a bottle off a table
with your skids, flying around a pole and coming
back to knock off another bottle (which has been
replaced by a helper).

The object is to knock off as
many bottles as possible in 2 minutes.

Task (3) involves lifting pylons, which have built-in wire
hooks, with the skids of your helicopter and depositing
them outside a square box marked on the ground.

The pylons are located on top of a 6 foot tower and are
replaced by your helper as you remove them.

The object is to deposit as many pylons outside the
square as possible in the 2 minutes.

There were some interesting skid alterations to help
with the novelty tasks.

But you still had to take your time and be very careful
not to get too close to the barrel or the tower.....

This tube added to the skids would have helped to
knock the bottles over.

Unfortunately Alan got a bit too close to the tower!

Dave had a modification for pylon catching, but touched
the tail rotor against the barrel so this heli
had to retire as well.

This tidy modification was quite successful with the pylons.

A few of the models entered in the scale competition.

Obviously the result of many hours of hard work.

The proud owner/builder of some of these fine
scale models.

Billy let me hover this magnificent Huey in
the scale competition.

Static judging in progress.

This won 1st place in the scale competition.

Billy brought along his latest project, a huge Bell 47.

Tail blades would be big enough for main blades on a
smaller helicopter.

It's all powered by a substantial pull-start petrol engine.

It will be spectacular when he gets it finished and flying.

   1. Vertical triangle
   2. Fixed heading circle
   3. Vertical rectangle
   4. Loop
   5. Roll
   6. Stall turn
   7. Split S (half roll, straight & level, half indide loop)
   8. Pushover (vertical climb, hover, vertical descent)
   9. 180 degree auto, or straight auto or straight landing

Dave flying the rectangle in the FAI competition.
His 180 degree auto was a delight to watch.

Liam finishes his FAI flight with an auto right
onto the centre circle.

Many thanks to David who kindly volunteered as my helper
in the novelty flights and caller in the FAI.

The 2007 Schluter Cup is scheduled to take
place on 11th/12th August - well worth a visit.