The Sun Shines on Fenland - at last !

My third year as CD at Fenland but the first time all the scheduled sequences have been flown. Friday saw one Beginner and nine Intermediates who kept up a cracking launch rate to get the Known and the Unknown completed between 15:15 and 18:15. Saturday dawned bright and clear; so we flew the Standard Known + three figures, an extra Intermediate Unknown and the Standard Unknown, all by 15:15. Totting up the scores, awarding the medals, thanking our hosts and tidying up the equipment took us to 17:30 by which time the airfield was pretty quiet!

My thanks to Steve Green and Ian Scott for Chief Judging on Friday and Saturday respectively, ably assisted by Anne (aka the Boss) and JP Paulson on Friday and Brian Gleave, Simon O'Neill, Debbie Brown, Anne Willis and Julie Wood (plus many scribe volunteers) on Saturday. Corinne Dennis registered and scored on Friday with JP taking all this on for Saturday.

The results you can see below, and read the next ANR for the unexpurgated version. In brief, the competition at Standard was, as ever, very intense with the first four packed tightly together. A slightly below par Unknown took Peter Borchert from 1st to, as we now know, 4th with Rob Howarth flying a sufficiently fine Unknown to move him from 4th to 1st overall. Simon Abbott was rewarded for consistent flying with 2nd overall and Adam Lewis, having repaired G-STUA by removing the spinner after his first flight, maintained his 3rd place from the first sequence. At Intermediate the clear winner was Tim Jenkinson (who had cancelled a session with a certain Mr. Lecomber to compete at all - maybe he'll be flying Advanced soon). John Dixon and Colwyn Darlow (in the One Design) flew well, but will have to up their game a little to catch Tim. Peter Rutterford did what all of us have done at one time or another and flew half of the Unknown the wrong way round! The 2nd Unknown was a real corker, and Colwyn will not forget that the sense of the arrows on linked rolls matters - but where is it explained in the rules? Tim Jenkinson won again, despite using aileron to simulate a spin!

I hope other CD's benefit from such good weather for the rest of the season.
Martin Sandford - CD

          Fenland/McAully Trophies : Fenland : 18/19 July
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                            Beginners

 Order   Pilot            Aircraft type   Reg'n     Known #1  O/all %
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   1  Paul Tomlinson      Pitts S1C       G-BXAU       370.7   56.162
 

                         McAully Trophy

 Standard level
 Order   Pilot            Aircraft type   Reg'n     Program1  Unkwn #1  All Grps  O/all %
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   1  Rob Howarth         Pitts S-1S      G-IIIX      1157.9     900.8    2058.7   74.322
   2  Simon Abbott        Pitts S-1S      G-IIIX      1177.2     875.1    2052.3   74.090
   3  Adam Lewis          Pitts S-2A      G-STUA      1162.8     886.6    2049.3   73.983
   4  Peter Borchert      Pitts S-2B      G-STUB      1189.5     854.1    2043.6   73.775
   5  Alex Smith          T-67M           G-SKYC      1119.7     818.6    1938.3   69.974
   6  Eric Marsh          Vans RV-4       G-BXPI      1115.4     816.8    1932.2   69.754
   7  Richard Buchan      Pitts S-1D      G-OODI      1109.0     807.4    1916.4   69.184
   8  Alan Wood           Pitts S-1S      G-BOXH      1071.6     840.7    1912.3   69.035
   9  Steve Kirton        T-67M           G-SKYC      1051.5     855.5    1907.0   68.844
  10  Al Coutts           Pitts S-1S      G-BKKZ      1085.8     802.0    1887.8   68.151
  11  Roy Nicholson       T-67M           G-SKYC      1094.7     791.8    1886.5   68.105
  12  Bill Merry          Pitts S-2A      G-STUA       988.0     870.5    1858.5   67.094
  13  Corinne Dennis      Pitts S-1S      G-BOXH       994.5     800.2    1794.7   64.790
  14  John Smith          Stampe          G-HJSS       984.5     462.0    1446.5   52.220
  15  Karl Rode           Yak-52          RA-01948     547.0     703.4    1250.4   45.141


                         Fenland Trophy

 Intermediate level
 Order   Pilot            Aircraft type   Reg'n     Known #1  Unkwn #1  All Grps  O/all %
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   1  Tim Jenkinson       Pitts S-1S      G-IIIX      1377.5    1261.5    2639.0   73.307
   2  John Dixon          Pitts S-1S      G-BRZX      1271.6    1156.4    2428.0   67.444
   3  Colwyn Darlow       DR-107          G-IDII      1294.8    1111.6    2406.4   66.845
   4  Julian Murfitt      Pitts S-2A      G-STUA      1175.7    1057.5    2233.2   62.034
   5  Peter Krause        Eagle-II        G-OEGL      1271.8     955.3    2227.1   61.864
   6  Phil O'Donoghue     Lazer           G-LAZA      1261.3     953.4    2214.6   61.518
   7  Clive Butler        Pitts S-2B      G-BPLY      1288.1     821.5    2109.6   58.599
   8  David Cooke         Pitts S-2B      G-GOMD      1164.6     944.6    2109.3   58.590
   9  Peter Rutterford    Pitts S-1T      G-BKPZ      1049.8     346.3    1396.0   38.778


                  Fenland Intermediate Challenge

 Intermediate level
 Order   Pilot            Aircraft type   Reg'n     Unkwn #2  O/all %
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   1  Tim Jenkinson       Pitts S-1F      G-MAGX      1198.0   71.738
   2  John Dixon          Pitts S-1S      G-BRZX      1045.0   62.572
   3  Colwyn Darlow       DR-107          G-IDII       945.4   56.613
   4  Julian Murfitt      Pitts S-2A      G-STUA       877.5   52.544
   5  Clive Butler        Pitts S-2B      G-BPLY       778.7   46.628
 
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