Sloping Off - September 2003

Whadda You Mean You Ain't No Pizza Fan? We Senda Round De Boys!

Mike Roach fills us in on the latest competition formula


We have a Club evening in the Main Hall at Stanpit Village Hall on Friday 12th December. In keeping with the season (There's a Pizza season? ­ Ed) we will have a Flying Pizza Competition.

These are the rules: First eat your Pizza, then bring along the foam base, any sort of glue or tape, pens or paint for decoration and a suitable noseweight and make a flying model aeroplane from these components only.

Before flying begins we will judge the models on the basis of fitness for purpose and artistic impression. There will then be a trimming session, followed by the flying competition, in the categories: distance in a straight line, aerobatics and duration, followed by a mass launch finale.

There will be suitably festive prizes in all categories.

(Mike submitted these pictures of his first prototype, christened Pepperoni. Looking at the long-suffering expression on the face of wife Wendy though, I did wonder whether to save this one for the next caption competition! - Ed)

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