midland scale heli comp

[themagician]

anybody seen any pics or heard of the results for their scale heli comp on 15th aug 2010 at midland helicopter club.

[electricsceadu]

class results first then overall standings

super scale
1st Lee Marshall
2nd Nick Clark
3rd Kenny Morton
4th Martin Briggs

scale
1st Martin Briggs
2nd Allen Parris
3rd Dave Payne
4th Lee Chambers
5th Richard Morris
6th Matt Tansey
7th Kenny Morton
8th Brett Houghton

over all standing
1st Lee Marshal (ss)
2nd Martin Briggs (s)
3rd Nick Clark (ss)
4th Aleen Parris (s)
5th Dave Payne (s)
6th Kenny Morton (ss)
7th Lee Chambers (s)
8th Richard Morris (s)
9th Martin Briggs (ss)
10th Matt Tansey (s)
11th Kenny Morton (s)
12th Brett Houghton (s)

note two pilots competed in both classes with different machines in each class thats why they have two overall standings

[electricsceadu]

pics of the heli's waiting for the static judging, note the r22 didn't compete

[electricsceadu]

more pics

[electricsceadu]

the rest of my pics

[electricsceadu]

and a big thank you to the midland helicopter club for running the event
not forgetting the thank you to the judges
Darren Swailes
Mick Patterson
Dennis Stretton

and the rest of the competitors

[trillian]

Do you know if that's Nigel Fraser-Ker's red Bell 47G ?

[electricsceadu]

the red heli swiss hirobo bell 47g2 hb-xae
is mine

it placed 3rd in class and 5th overall
and has only done 25 hours of flying since it was rebuild in jan 2010 after a pivot bolt broke in the elevator bell cranks, causing an inverted auto/crash
this is a very good example of why you should strip a second hand heli down to every last nut and bolt, i didn't and paid the price

i was only 1 1/2 points off second place

maybe next time?

nigel's 47 was a nice heli but i think he's sold it


dave

and a better pic of it

[electricsceadu]

the other red bell 47 that can just about be seen on the second set of pics
is a vario bell 47gII with the drop in skyfox mechanics reg no G-DAVE
and my back up plan if the hirobo 47 for any reason couldn't fly



and before you ask too many

[darrens]

it was a great day and I really enjoyed it. I have 2 other threads about this so to save me typing again (yes, I'm slow!), here are the links

New Competition Format - Page 1 - RunRyder RC Helicopter

ScaleRCHelis.com • View topic - UK MHC (Warton) Scale Open Competition 15th August 2010

[darrens]

Another tweak for next year, there will be no flightline banners near the comp area, I never gave a thought to them obstructing spectators view of things, sorry guys. Like I said, this was a learning exercise!

[darrens]

Karl Baker one of our club members has put this together for a reminder of the day, I think he did a great job!
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dig6U2QU890]YouTube - 1080p.wmv[/ame]
Enjoy!

[electricsceadu]

great video, he even got the music right, its not very often the scale boy's see the blue sky