Author Archives: John Schmidli

About John Schmidli

A Life Member of LDMFA, I have been flying r/c model aircraft for 36 years and pylon racing on and off since then. Originally flew Sport pylon and then F400, since coming back to pylon racing in 2010, I now fly Q500, F3T & E2K.

Passing of John Hughan

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It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of John Hughan, who finally lost his battle with cancer on the morning of Jan 30, 2012.

John, a member at LDMFA for many year, started pylon racing back in 1969, and was an active participant until recent years.

He was present at the formation of The Australian Miniature Pylon Racing Association (AMPRA) and was elected to the position of President. A position that he held for some 23 years. He was chairman of the MAAA pylon technical sub committee, was involved at the state level through (VMPRA) and had also been a contributor to the Australian Airborne Model Magazine for 15 years – writing a regular pylon articles.

Our thoughts go out to his family at this most difficult time.

New 2012 Calendar

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The Preliminary calendar for 2012 is now on-line, see calendar >. August and September details are still to be finalised. There is also a schedule of how events will be run for the 2012 calendar. Events schedule >>>

Our thanks go out to Mick Kellett for coordinating with all the clubs and for putting all of this together.

Have a Merry Christmas and Safe Holidays and we look forward to another year full of pylon racing.

2012 Calendar >>>

Bacchus Marsh Results, Nov 20, 2011

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Quickies on the line before going on time

Quickies on the line before going on time

This was our last event for the year. We had 8 x Q500 & 4 x Sports entries including an EF-1 flown Alan Swift and Andrew Davies bought down a new EF-1 for a test flight during the day.

Alan Swift & Andrew Davies with their EF1 models

Also in the sport class was the battle of the Boomerangs between Matt Young in his 2nd event & David Axon.

David Axon doing some last minute tuning

It was windy as usual, the rain stayed away & it was a good day of flying with Some good close battles.

Toni Axon carrying out the starter's duties

Results >>>

Thanks to Joe Finocchiaro for the photo taken on the day.