Location: Lawford, nr. Manningtree - see map right.

Start time - 11am
(please arrive before 10:30 to set up so we can start on time)

Entry fee £5

Allowed models:

Winch or towed - Open/F3J, 100S, RES, Classic, Vintage and tail-less
Electric* – Open and 2metre either to the 200W/Kg rules (22sec. motor run) or fitted with a height limiter (200m/30sec. motor run).
Hand Launch – max. wing span 1.5m
Mini-bungee - max. wing span 1.5m

* Virtually all electric gliders can fly in this league, from foamies like the Easy Glider/Junior S/Radian/Cularis etc., home built balsa jobbies up to the latest moulded beauties. It doesn't matter what you fly, just come and have some fun. 

Please send your entry in by 8pm Saturday 31st July with with your prefered frequency and a reserve or two if possible if flying on 35MHz to Tony Merritt - email or telephone 075 194 17204

The entry list and other info. will be posted on FlyQuiet in the F3J & Thermal Soaring, Electric and Hand Launch Forums - FlyQuiet

Visitors very welcome.

FunFly and Barbecue

June's FunFly and BBQ evening was well attended and despite a little drizzle everyone had a good time. So lets hope for a warm evening with light winds and no wet stuff.

The barbecue will be fired up around about 6pm serving burgers and hotdogs, canned drinks will also be available.

Guests are very welcome, and anyone wanting to join the club is also welcome to come along and meet us.

Map to the flying field further down the page under 'New Flying Field'

Look out seagulls!

Skills workshops and Q&A

Got a broken model - kit built or ARTF? Learn how to repair the damage and make it look good again.

Want to know how to solder successfully? Hands on instruction.

Want to have a model checked over for airworthiness? Bring it along for an MOT check.

Reading this and thinking 'I know all that' - excellent! Bring your experience & skills and share them with others that want to learn.

Several members will be giving advice and showing you the skills required to make good, strong repairs to fuselages and wings and get your model back in the air.

Having lost the use of Ramsey Farm, we will very soon have access to two flying fields. The final details are being set but hopefully from early March, quite likely before we can no longer use Ramsey Farm, we shall be able to fly again at RAF Wattisham and also at a new site at Great Oakley Airfield. Great Oakley is close to Harwich and Dovercourt - see map right.

Before we can fly at either site there are a few things that have got to be arranged. As both sites are active full-size airfields it is likely that when flying our models we will have to have an airband radio so that we can hear when aircraft are approaching the airfield to land.

At the Great Oakley site we are not so far away from the Harwich & Dovercourt Model Club's field. We expect to arrange some form of frequency sharing, this is currently being discussed with the H&DMC committee.

Getting to Great Oakley from Ipswich can be done one of two ways - the longer, easier route via the A12 and A120 - 25miles and 30 minutes approx. from the A14/A12 junction at Copdock or the shorter, twistyer route through Manningtree - 16miles and still around 30 minutes from the A14/A137 junction near the ski-slope.

More details will follow soon.

Web address of Great Oakley Airfield - www.greatoakleyairfield.co.uk/