A fantastic weekend was had and the first of what we hope will become regular events. A great turnout of modellers and their "babies" with some interesting weather to sharpen up the skills.

The image library from the weekend is available here. 

The days of fun and merriment are far from over.

Life has its rewards and one of them for this fellow was the event known as Lameroo.

Many of you would have seen Martin Simon's articles about the design and building of his PWS 102 sailplane in RC Sport Flyer Magazine. Martin has kindly supplied some "insider" images into the current state of the project. Nice work Martin!

Well it was off to the State Field for our scale day there and it is a fair way out of Melbourne to get to it ,though with the countryside is nice and green it was a pleasant drive getting there.

Images of the event are available here

During the World Gliding Championships at Lüsse, Sunday 10th August was partly devoted to a demonstration of several self-launching gliders. After long periods under development, they are apparently now considered ready for display at gliding meetings. Whether there will be sufficient interest in the sailplane market for them to be produced in large numbers, remains to be seen.

For a scientific conference to take place in an ordinary hangar on an airfield, where the proceedings are sometimes interrupted by the sounds of aeroplanes towing gliders, is unusual. Why don’t the scientists, engineers and scholars meet in some quiet dreaming academy?