 "Steve Lough's twin, now electrified.")
 "Doug and Frank at Albemarle.")
 "A group at Albemarle with a large model")
Local competitions: (Boldon CAMAC).
Competition dates :(general) .Fixed Wing Sunday 24th.May,
was held as planned, Robin has posted the results below:
The meeting at Albemarle on April 19th. was a great success with over
twenty fliers enjoying warm spring sunshine
and light winds to fly a great variety of
models (and only two he*****ters!) Here are some pictures, hope to get more soon.
 "Steve Lough working on his models.")
 "Old Brian with Alpha Club (now motorised).")
 "Steves newly electrified scale model.")
The Boldon Open Thermal Soaring event was held on Sunday
July 12th. on the Boldon field .
The next monthly meeting will be held in the Boldon Community Centre
on Saturday 10th.October.
Club 391
Scale and concours show
August or September (details to be arranged) .
Robin Dean’s report on the Albemarle meeting Sunday August 9th
The Yorkshire Air Spectacular Christmas Model
Show will be held at the Great Yorkshire
Showground, Harrogate 14th. and 15th. November
2009. Full details can be found HERE
With thanks to the club delegate here is a list of the
forthcoming events in the region:
Indoor events:
Nunthorpe - first Saturday of the month.
Churchill College third Saturday of the month.
Prudhoe School fourth Wednesday of the month
Albemarle:
Boldon CAMAC Sunday 7th.June. Nineteen fliers
took part, the weather apparently wasn’t quite as
good as at the April event.
Congratulations to Paul Whitfield on two counts! Paul has passed his helicopter “A”
certificate and at the recent Great North fly-in (formerly Geordie Nationals) at
Cramlington on Sunday 6th.September he won the Brian Park Memorial Trophy for
the best scale helicopter (flying and static). Well done Paul.
We are sorry to have lost our Competition Director Robin Dean who has moved away
from the area to work. Robin has done great work recently both organising club
competitions and outings to Albemarle Barracks which have been a great success. His
reports on these events for this page on the website were greatly appreciated and he
will be missed. The committee are looking for a replacement!
(This will depend on the appointment of a new Competition director.
 "Paul (on the right) with Harry at Albemarle in 2008.")
Robin Dean’s report on the Albemarle meeting on August 23rd.
David Effard has sent in some nice photographs of the Albemarle event on
July 19th. for which there is a link on the
PHOTO page to see them on the Flickr site.
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Congratulations to Syd, who, after long sessions on the buddy lead with Paul Whitfield and
Charlie Nixon has now made several very competent solo flights with his Wot Trainer. Syd,
like me is a mature flier and I know that it doesn’t come easy to us oldies! Syd’s take offs,
circuits and landings are good enough to pave the way to him successfully passing his “A”
test. Good luck in that respect Syd, I’m sure you will be successful. Thanks also to his
patient, dedicated and hard working buddies, this is what being a good club member is all
about.
 "Syd with one of his trainers")
STOP PRESS - The club has arranged an event at Albemarle Barracks on
Sunday October 18th. Apparently there will be some interest from jet (gas
turbine?) fliers. Hope the weather will be kind.
New LINK on the Links page for RC Helicopter addicts. Lee Egan has set up a
social group for Club members interested in flying RC Helicopters.
