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Editor
Murray Race MFNZ Council Members Contents
6 Stevenson Street 4 MFNZ Contacts
Mobile: 027 418 0969 President 5 Presidential Ramblings
Balclutha 9230 Kevin Botherway 5 Safety Is No Accident
race.m@xtra.co.nz 027 557 0470 6 AGM Information
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What Are The Benefits Of MFNZ Membership
editor@mfnz.org President@mfnz.org 11 History of Tamaki MAC
Competitions Manager 13 Richard Pearse MAC Young Flyers
CompMan@mfnz.org 14 Drone Racing
16 Musings Of A Mature And Possibly Over Ripe Modeller
Copy Deadlines Secretary 23 New Plymouth MAC Memorial Fly In
25 Angus Macdonald Commemoration Hornet Event
March Issue Peter Randerson 28 Levin MAC Glider Fun Fly
31st January Secretary@mfnz.org 30 Marlborough Aerotow
021 452 778 32 F5J World Champs Argentina 2025
June Issue 35 Australian GPS Triangle Racing Event
23rd April 37 ASFC F3A World Cup China 2025
September Issue 41 Pylon Season End
42 Pylon SIG
24th July Treasurer 43 Soaring Scribe
Maurice Job
December Issue 46 Large Model Stuff
23rd October Treasurer@mfnz.org 48 Vintage SIG
021 670 689 50 Free Flight SIG
51 NDC Report & Results
Front Cover 55 NDC Calendar
Trevor Glogau's 1939 Earl 56 Classifieds
Stahl Hurricane which flew Auckland North Island
very well with character in Behram Bajan
the air and shared thermals 021 241 7921
with more hitech designs. ANIRep@mfnz.org
Prime Person
primeperson@mfnz.org
Far North Island
Alan Walker Special Interest Groups
FNIRep@mfnz.org Pylon Control Line
021 943 651 Dave Coleman Chris Chambers
Ph 021 0241 2589 chris.chambers@hotmail.com
djacoleman@gmail.com
Free Flight
Radio Control Scale Rob Wallace
Central North Island Grant Finlay Ph 06 878 4993
Frazer Briggs nzfinlays@gmail.com ffonzrjw@gmail.com
CNIRep@mfnz.org
Soaring Free Flight &
David James Control Line Scale
Ph 06 354 3452 Ricky Bould
soaring@mfnz.org Ph 09 478 8949
unimec1994@gmail.com
The Opinions expressed in this Southern North Island Turbine
publication are not necessarily Craig Abbott Helicopter
those of the editor or Pete Brown 021 886 222 Allen James
Model Flying New Zealand. 021 399 548 president@NZJMA.com 027 580 5630
SNIRep@mfnz.org allenjames@orcon.net.nz
Neither this publication nor FPV & Multirotors
MFNZ are responsible for the Mathew Wellington
Vintage
contents or services advertised mat_wellington@yahoo.co.nz Allan Knox
within these pages. 021 747 950
Northern South Island
All advertising is accepted Dave Griffin Aerobatics allan.j.knox@gmail.com
on the integrity of those 021 352 595 Frazer Briggs
placing the advertising.
NSIRep@mfnz.org 021 288 9455
Printed by frazer@pbgsoftware.co.nz
Fisherprint Ltd
Administration Contacts
Southern South Island
Administration/Membership Manager
Darrin Thompson Paul Clegg
021 766 914 021 986 566 admin@mfnz.org
SSIRep@mfnz.org Recording Officer
Allan Knox
allan.j.knox@gmail.com
Immediate Past President Large Model Controller
The body Governing Rene Redmond
Model Aeronautics in New Zealand Chris Jackson Ph 021 245 2729 lmc@mfnz.org
Recognised by 021 072 9458
The Royal New Zealand Aero Club (Inc)
New Zealand Representatives of the F.A.I Other Contacts
www.mfnz.org

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