Traplet Scale At Pontefract

摘要

The weather at Pontefract was excellent but for some reason the turnout was not as good as on previous years. However, the quality of the flying from the leading contenders was first class and there were also three competitors who were making their competition debut. The day got off to a poor start when the third scale Tiger Moth belonging to John Bunting from the Pontefract Club had to be withdrawn due to a rigging failure after an early test flight. Things got even worse during the first round when the superb Fiesler Storch, recently featured in this magazine and belonging to John Kidd, crashed just after completing the flap demonstration. There was significant damage to the model but John assured me that a full repair would be his winter project.