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Editor
Murray Race Model Flying New Zealand Council Contents
6 Stevenson Street 4 Presidential Ramblings
Ph: 03 418 0969 President 6 Summer Fire Hazard
Mobile: 027 418 0969 Kevin Botherway 8 My Failure to Failsafe
Balclutha 9230 027 557 0470 9 Back to the Future or Journey to the Past
race.m@xtra.co.nz President@mfnz.org 14 76th Nationals Report
editor@mfnz.org Competitions Manager 17 Ruminations about the 76th Nationals
CompMan@mfnz.org 21 Warbirds Over Awatoto 2024
Vintage
Secretary 25 SIG Report
Building & Flying Ted Patronia’s Cobra
Copy Deadlines Peter Randerson 28 Pylon
Secretary@mfnz.org
March Issue 30 SIG Report
31st January 021 452 778 33 Waikato Pylon Championships
Free Flight
June Issue
23rd April 34 SIG Report
35 Pigs Might Fly ‘yeah right’
September Issue Treasurer Soaring
24th July Brad Pearpoint 37 SIG Report
Treasurer@mfnz.org 40 Levin Glider Fun Day
December Issue
23rd October 027 634 1030 42 GPS Triangle
Control Line
44 SIG Report
Front Cover 46 Control Line Stunt Series Round 4
Auckland North Island RC Scale
Trevor Glogau is a regular 47 SIG Report
Nationals contestant with his Behram Bajan 49 Dart Kitten
big 1949, 96 inch KeilKraft 021 241 7921 Control Line & Free Flight Scale
Falcon with Saito four stroke ANIRep@mfnz.org 52 SIG Report
using petrol and spark. He NDC
was second in Open Texaco 55 Report, Calendar & Results
this year.
Far North Island Special Interest Groups
Les King
Aerobatics
FNIRep@mfnz.org Pylon Frazer Briggs
Les King
022 073 1133 Ph 022 073 1133 021 288 9455
les@heronhill.co.nz frazer@pbgsoftware.co.nz
LMANZ Control Line
Central North Island Dave Neilson Dave Thornley
Frazer Briggs twotravellas@hotmail.com Ph 07 349 3719
027 223 1271
CNIRep@mfnz.org Free Flight
Radio Control Scale Rob Wallace
Gwyn Avenell Ph 06 878 4993
Ph 09 298 4819 ffonzrjw@gmail.com
avenellsnz@gmail.com
Free Flight &
The Opinions expressed in this Southern North Island Soaring Control Line Scale
publication are not necessarily John Farmer David James
those of the editor or Ph 06 354 3452 Ricky Bould
Model Flying New Zealand. 027 429 2116 soaring@mfnz.org Ph 09 478 8949
SNIRep@mfnz.org unimec1994@gmail.com
Neither this publication nor
MFNZ are responsible for the NZ Jet Turbine Helicopter
contents or services advertised Craig Abbott Allen James
within these pages. president@NZJMA.com 027 580 5630
Northern South Island allenjames@orcon.net.nz
All advertising is accepted Dave Griffin FPV & Multirotors
on the integrity of those 021 352 595 Mathew Wellington Vintage
placing the advertising. mat_wellington@yahoo.co.nz Allan Knox
NSIRep@mfnz.org 021 747 950
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Fisherprint Ltd
Recording Officer
Southern South Island Allan Knox
Darrin Thompson allan.j.knox@gmail.com
021 766 914 Administration/Membership Manager
SSIRep@mfnz.org Paul Clegg
021 986 566
admin@mfnz.org
Large Model Co-Ordinator
Immediate Past President
The body Governing Rene Redmond
Model Aeronautics in New Zealand Chris Jackson Ph 06 356 5861
Recognised by 021 072 9458 lmc@mfnz.org
The Royal New Zealand Aero Club (Inc) Primeperson@mfnz.org
New Zealand Representatives of the F.A.I Website
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