Eddie Riding Memorial Trophy 2007 for Free Flight Scale aircraft

This event was held as usual at the Woodvale Rally on the Saturday Evening at 6 pm.

The rules were the same as had been used at all the previous events - with the addition of the new class - and followed closely the BMFA scale rules.

The weather was favourable, and started off with a virtual calm, and everything went smoothly, and no complaints were made by any of the competitors that I was told about - which is all that matters!

There were 28 people who pre-entered, of which 21 actually attended and flew. Some of these entrants flew in more than one class, and altogether, there were 36 aircraft entered, of which 27 models posted a result. In the new class for the Eddie Riding Designs, 13 entered a model and 10 posted results.

The winners of the classes were as follows:

IC - Bill Dennis (and overall winner) - Sopwith Triplane

Rapier - Mike Smith - Miles Student

Eddie Riding Designs - Roger Shaw - Fairchild Argus

Rubber - Andrew Hewitt - Fokker EIII

Electric/Air/CO2 - Alistair Duff - BE2c (Electriic)

A full list of entries and results is available in Microsoft Excel from David Lloyd - Jones on request by mailing him at dlj@dlj702.co.uk .

If you wish to see a photo collection of similar models entered at the 2006 event, please go to http://www.ffscale.co.uk/page3mm.htm.

An original painting by John David Jones of a model of the ABC Robin flying over Woodvale was presented to Bill Dennis - who was the overall winner - as a change to the usual full size aircraft painting.

A letter of thanks to David Jones for this painting, and he has said he is happy to provide one again next year as usual, at cost.

Although I drew up the details of the rules etc. for the new class, I must give John Watters from the North West Area the credit for giving me the idea in the first place!

David Lloyd Jones (Event CD)