Warbirds 2019

What is a Warbird? There are many varied views as to what defines one. Most people regard the core meaning to include W.W.II era frontline combat aircraft in active civil or commemorative use today. Ragged edges and personal preferences come in to play with areas like 'warbugs', earlier and later combat types, trainers, flying replicas and paint-a-likes are not uncommon. For our purpose we don't see much point in playing exclusion games, stuff moves up and down in status depending who wants to play. We are looking to include models designed for a military purpose of training and performing defence or attack roles from the past present and future. The limiting factor will be its aerobatic ability in a control line environment.

Well the Sunday was an overcast day with only light winds. It augured well. The format of the event followed that of the All Australian competition with a Static and Flying element with the highest combined score running out the winner. Static Scores were pumped up by a factor of 5 to add some interest. Less experienced fliers only needed to complete the junior novice pattern while the more experienced did the standard novice pattern.

There were 9 entrants at the completion of registration. See the table below.

There were a number of models in evidence on the day that did not register, including Bruce Jenkins Bamboo Bomber but I will leave it to you to decide whose who and what's what. Happy to answer any questions.