This years Scalefest offers numerous classes for scale free flight models
BMFA Outdoor Kit Scale to ‘Old’ BMFA rules
BMFA Open Power/Rubber/Electric. Documents required.
Scale Glider, no docs.
Peterborough Profile and Fullfat Jet, reaction motors only
FAC Catapult Jet.
Gala Champion award.
Results
Open Power FF Scale
| P | Name | Model | Static | Flight | Total |
| 1 | Steve Glass | DH Chipmunk | 115 | 550 | 665 |
| 2 | Mike Smith | DH4 m2 | 104 | 480 | 584 |
| 3 | Ivan Taylor | FW 190A | 117 | 340 | 457 |
| 4 | Bill Dennis | Piper PA12 | 75 | 355 | 430 |
Open Rubber FF Scale
| P | Name | Model | Static | Flight | Total |
| 1 | Bill Dennis | Bucker Jungman | 113 | 413 | 526 |
| 2 | Pete Fardell | Bleriot XI | 99 | 410 | 509 |
| 3 | Mike Stuart | Consolidated Fleetser | 95 | 365 | 460 |
| 4 | Ivan Taylor | Mig 3 | 99 | 260 | 359 |
Open Electric FF Scale
| P | Name | Model | Static | Flight | Total |
| 1 | Ivan Taylor | BAC TSR2 | 98 | 220 | 318 |
| 2 | Steve Glass | SAAB J29 | x | x | x |
Kit Scale
| P | Name | Model | Total difference from 30s over 3 flights |
| 1 | Simon Rogers | Macchi M5 | 6 secs |
| 2 | Bob Lee | Auster AOP9 | 13secs |
| =3 | Mike Stuart | Howard DGA 8 | 22sec |
| =3 | Bill Dennis | Westland Lysander | 22sec |
| 4 | Pete Fardell | Fairchild | 33sec |
FAC Catapult jet
| P | Name | Model | Flight | Total |
| 1 | Bob Lee | Jet Provost | 29sec | 29sec |
Overall Top Gun 22 Gala Champion and winner of the Blagg trophy (which is Champagne bottle shaped)
- Bill Dennis – 1st Open Rubber, =3rd Kit Scale, 4th Open Power
Certificates for the top three and a bottle of wine for the class winners
This year we were blessed with some nice flyable weather and some new models to boot.
Thanks to the Judges, competitors, sport flyers and helpers for making it a great event, and of course to Charlie Newman for organising it
Pete Fardell wrote a short event report on HPA (Hippocketaeronautics.com) which gives a good flavour of the event
It was fairly calm on arrival at Port Meadow but beginning to get a little breezier. Fortunately it stayed eminently flyable all day in the end though, if a bit gusty for the smaller stuff.
Charlie Newman and Derek Knight were judges for the day, and they slaved away static judging all the open entries over the morning and right through lunch. The Outdoor Kit Scale (30 sec precision) contest was first, so I gave my royal Chippie a few test chucks to see if it was up for it. It wasn’t; I promptly broke the prop and fin, replaced and repaired them respectively, and then bent a wing, so I went to my back up model instead- the old Guillow’s Fairchild. This wasn’t behaving either and I broke off and re-stuck the wings after almost every trimming flight before deciding to just go for it. It then produced a nice 27 seconder to start me off, but broke the wings off again on landing. After sticking them back on again the other two timed flights weren’t up to much.
Flying for the open classes got underway once the static judging marathon was completed, but there was no rest for Derek and Charlie as they were the flight judges too.
Thanks again to Charlie and Oxford MFC for a lovely event
Pete has a Youtube video of some of the days flying here
Some great new models were on show too. Ivan Taylor had a new Mig 3 for Open Rubber which looks very impressive. Derek Knight brought along his amazing looking Gloster Gladiator although his judging duties meant he was unable to compete with it and Simon Rogers had a array of new power models. Photos of the days fun can be seen in the gallery below
