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    • Austin

      2011 BARCS Leagues Year End Report

      By Austin, in BARCS,

      The 2011 BARCS Soaring Season came to an end on October 9th and the final league tables can be found in the appropriate class tabs.
      One again the weather affected many competitions, either resulting in postponement, cancellation or curtailment with just enough rounds flown to make them count. Despite this 90 individual members entered competition, recording 205 class entries. Congratulations to all the winners, you will be being contacted about trophy arrangements in due course.
      On behalf of all the competitors and BARCS we would like to offer a special vote of thanks to all the organisers and CD’s for their hard work and to the clubs who gave access to their fields.
      The All Rounder Tables are too large to be displayed on the website and are available to view or download here
      Graham James.
    • Austin

      Radioglide 2011 ELG and 100s Report

      By Austin, in Radioglide,

      The appalling weather experienced over the late spring bank holiday weekend caused the cancellation of the Radioglide events scheduled for the Sunday and Monday. Some flying was possible on Saturday but because of the increasingly strong winds through the day many people opted not to fly.
      100s started early in the morning before the wind became too strong and it was possible to complete 6 rounds and a fly off by 2pm. Terry Pelling topped a fine performance by winning all but one of the rounds and both rounds of the fly off. Outstanding!
      After lunch, with increasing wind, many more pilots opted not to fly and the event was reduced to just one slot per round. In spite of the wind some slots were being flown out for the full 10 minutes and four rounds were completed before it was finally decided to call a halt.
      The rules specify that a score is dropped after 3 rounds have been completed so Peter Allen won in spite of not being able to fly in the last round because of a damaged model.
      100s Fly Off Results
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      RankNameScorePcntRnd1 DurRnd2 Dur1Pelling, Terry2000100100010002Dickinson, Bob1287.464.37554.8732.63Warby, Neville1071.453.57408.6662.84Chambers, Glyn669.433.47669.40100s Preliminary Rounds
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      RankNameScorePcntRnd1 DurRnd2 DurRnd3 DurRnd4 DurRnd5 DurRnd6 Dur1Pelling, Terry5821.710010001000100010001000821.72Chambers, Glyn5374.492.32847.21000754.710001000772.53Warby, Neville5313.491.2710006901000998.1625.310004Dickenson, Bob4656.479.98895.7953.3483.5694.4922.3707.25Sleight, Robin450477.37842.2830.6636.8481.6712.810006Goddard, Ken4284.473.59557.3680.1741.9944.9632.7727.57James, Graham407069.91570766.7363.2974.3494.9900.98Binnie, Gary387066.48583.3465.1697.3698.3774.8651.29Nicoll, Ken3412.458.62436.1366.7682.4849.3509.4568.510Philcox, Cengiz1676.828.8983.3693.50000ELG Overall Results
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      RankNameScorePcntRaw ScoreRnd1 DurRnd2 DurRnd3 DurRnd4 DurDrop1 DurPenlty1Allen, Peter2993.61002993.6993.6100010000002Sleight, Robin2652.588.613396.31000853.4743.8799.1743.803Mitchell, Peter2571.185.893164.4593.3960.7723.6886.8593.304Hanham, Cliff2546.185.053208661.9968.6750.6826.9661.905Wharrie, Martyn251283.912945.8433.8774.9737.11000433.806Pelling, Terry2361.678.892843.3909.1481.7730.3722.2481.7071, Spare2358.278.772978.4878.8725.1620.2754.3620.208Lucas, Colin1982.966.242312575.8780.1627329.1329.1092, Spare0000000009Foss, Chris0000000009Gadenne, Ray0000000009James, Graham0000000009Jones, Bernie000000000
    • Sydney Lenssen

      Tribute to Harry Coover

      By Sydney Lenssen, in News & Information,

      Harry Coover – every aeromodeller’s friend. By Sydney Lenssen.
      Last year Harry Coover received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation from President Barack Obama, 52 years after “superglue” was introduced.
      Harry Coover might not be a name known to every aeromodeller, but his invention of cyanoacrylates resulted in an adhesive which is used by all of them worldwide. If you had to name a substance vitally important to modellers today, no longer would it be balsa wood, but “Zap”, “Loctite”, “Super Glue” and many hundreds of other brand names which spell instant adhesion.
      Harry Coover died on 26 March 2011 aged 94, and his obituary dispelled one of the myths which I always held firm: cyanoacrylates were invented during the Vietnam war, and sprayed on to seal open wounds until soldiers could be flown to operating theatres. That application  is true and it’s the one of which Coover was most proud.
      But the reality is that zap was discovered by accident during the second world war when chemist Coover was experimenting for Eastman Kodak with clear plastics which could be used to make unbreakable gun sights; that got nowhere. In 1951 he came back to cyanoacrylates for jet cockpit canopies. Testing for resistance to heat, his co-worker Fred Joyner – appropriately named – found that refractometer lenses were bonded together. They recognised that this stuff could bond almost anything under most conditions.
      Superglue appeared on the market in 1958 and was called Eastman 910, and in 1963 Eastman Kodak sold the formula to American Sealants who then produced Loctite Super Glue.

      The original product
      Aeromodellers and many other buyers made zap immensely profitable, especially after Coover’s patent expired, but by that time he had filed nearly 500 patents, many of them extremely successful.
      So next time you are rescued while out flying by a drop of zap, think and thank Coover!
      Sydney Lenssen
    • Austin

      Radioglide 2011 Information

      By Austin, in Radioglide,

      BARCS Radioglide 28th-30th May at Marsh Gibbon, nr Bicester. This years event will have BARCS ELG and 100s on 28th followed by F3J on the 29th. The 30th May will have multilaunch from 10am. Camping is available on the field from Friday evening. Last official day for entries 15th May!

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