Tomboy Competition -  5 December

An impromptu Tomboy competition was held after the excellent Christmas lunch on Sunday 5th December. Fred Willis represented LMAC with his brand new unflown Cardinal powered by MPJet. Jack Tonks, Geoff Leverton, Gavin Hallam, Peter Allen and Tony Gray made up the field. Gavin was rather lucky to even start as he had left his Tomboy on the kitchen table! Fortunately Tony loaned Gavin a spare model to compete. Four rounds were flown in rather windy conditions, however as usual the little models performed very well. Peter Lambert very generously donated a nice vintage aircraft wall plaque as a trophy for the day - thanks very much Peter.

Due to a clash of frequencies we were unable to fly all models in each round so it was decided to use the aggregate of the best two times of the four rounds to decide the winner.

Winner on the day was Peter Allen, very closely followed by Fred Willis and Tony Gray.

Competition Rules

The Tomboy competition  is an RC duration event for small vintage type models such as the Vic Smeed designed "Tomboy", Phil Smith "Veron Cardinal" or similar models of the era which can run on 1 or 2 channels. The event is very similar to the one designed in the UK by David Boddington for the one design "Tomboy" known as Tomboy 3 competitions. These competitions have now become popular at SAM Australia events.

Basic Rules:

• 1 or 2 Channel RC, rudder only or rudder/elevator

• The competition is for maximum flight duration of a RC model with limited fuel capacity

• Aircraft to be a Tomboy, Cardinal of similar model of that era, around 36" wingspan powered by a diesel motor up to 1cc capacity. Fuel capacity limited to standard Mills tank of 3cc capacity.

• Typical motors Mills 0.75cc, MP Jet 0.6cc, Frog 80, PAW 0.5

• Competition consists of a number of flights with the single best duration time the winner.

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Fred Willis (LMAC)

Cardinal, MP Jet

Peter Ralph (August comp)

Sportster, Irvine Mills .75cc