The Carl Goldberg Gentle Lady, as flown by the winning Club man Nick Hughes in the Rose Bowl Comp. 78in span, easy to build and fly, yet holds its own against the competition.

Why not build and fly one in the Thermal series?

(Picture from Tower Hobbies website)

Rose Bowl Annual Thermal Competition - 24th April 2005

The competition was held at Chalbury by kind permission of the Wessex Soaring Association. Not only did WSA provide the flying field by they laid on some good weather and all the launching equipment. Of the five C&DMFC members who took part, only Brian Brockway had previous winch experience. Nevertheless all our models were successfully launched thanks to some good tutoring by WSA members.

The format of the competition is for each flyer to try and fly the target time of 10 minutes then land within a 12.5 metre radius graduated spot. Bonus seconds are awarded for the spot landing - 5, 10, 15, 20 or 25. Three fairly leisurely rounds were flown, finishing just after 2pm.

The overall winner was Nigel Bennett, flying a Starlight, a clear 59 seconds ahead of second place Glyn Fonteneau with his flying wing. Dave Camp was third, flying a Solution. Our best flyer on the day was Nic Hughes, who was actually third overall at the end of round two with his Gentle Lady but had a poor final round.

The models were a bit of mixed bag, ranging from high tech machines to Gentle Lady type. The flying wing was flown very well and in one of the rounds circled across the field at a very low height, clocking up a good time.

Apart from our members mostly not having used a winch before, for some of them this was their first competition and I don’t feel any of them were put off thermal flying.

Mrs. Gardener, WSA Chairman (or should it be Chairlady / Chairperson?) received the Rose  Bowl on behalf of Nigel Bennett and so ended a good day’s flying with all the models going home in one piece.

2005 Rose Bowl Competition Results

Round

1

2

3

Total

Model

Max (time + landing)

600 + 25

600 + 25

600 + 25

1875

Nigel Bennett

589 + 10

540 + 0

390 + 25

1554

Starlight

Glyn Fonteneau

594 + 0

580 + 10

296 + 15

1495

Vitess Flying Wing

Dave Camp

586 + 20

597 + 25

220 + 25

1473

Solution

Ron Randall

500 + 15

540 + 0

316 + 0

1371

Medicine Man

Nic Hughes

588 + 0

562 + 0

204 + 0

1354

Gentle Lady

Brian Brockway

209 + 0

574 + 10

474 + 20

1287

Calypso

Allan Parker

527 + 0

271 + 0

289 + 10

1097

Algebra

Ian Gardener

258 + 10

420 + 25

344 + 25

1082

Flying Special

Roger Crickmore

259 + 25

563 + 0

226 + 5

1078

Gengle Lady (Mod)

Pete Simpson

392 + 25

278 + 10

294 + 25

1024

Alpha

Alan Hawkins

455 + 0

106 + 0

356 + 10

927

Aspire

Trevor Wilkins

390 + 25

210 + 0

198 + 0

823

Alpha

Martin Hursthouse

264 + 25

305 + 20

185 + 0

799

Martin Burr

342 + 0

183 + 0

202 + 0

727

Sirocco

Geoff Haine

165 + 15

282 + 25

487

Spirit