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Issue 34 June 2015.Pub Issue No.34 AUSTRALIAN MODEL NEWS June 2015 Contents From the Editor 3. IVOR F. STOWE 1925 - 2015 Our late Summer / early Autumn weather wasn’t always as good as we have come to expect but three events that I 4. VICTORIAN CONTROL LINE attended through April / May were blessed with near perfect AEROBATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS flying conditions. Despite the fine weather the attendance at all three was much less than expected given that two were high profile annual Fly-In events and the other a scale flying 8. AUSTRALIAN MASTERS competition, open to all modellers. 10. SCALE FLYING There may be other reasons for this poor attendance but my AT YARRA VALLEY feeling is that aeromodelling has changed and, where model- lers were once prepared to travel to events to participate or 12. SAM 600 AT CANOWINDRA compete, they now prefer to take their model to their local field, have a few flights, and return home rather than travel a 14. GARY SUNDERLAND’S longer distance to another field to fly with strangers. SOPWITH TABLOID This reluctance to travel deprives modellers of the opportuni- ty to meet and enjoy the company of fellow enthusiasts and 16. WAGGA WWII AND encourages the “closed shop” attitude of some clubs where MILITARY SCALE visitors are made to feel less than welcome by the strict lim- its on the number of times a visitor may fly at their field with- 18. MODEL ENGINES out being required to take up membership. “SCANNER CHALLENGE” AT BENDIGO Why not give some thought to widening your horizon, spreading your wings, and taking the opportunity to meet new people at different venues. You might find it to be an 20. TWIN CITIES enlightening and very pleasant experience. AUTUMN SCALE RALLY 23. TONY SMALL’S John Lamont. PARTENAVIA P.68 24. 68TH NATIONALS RADIO CONTROL SCALE 27. SAM 600 VICTORIAN/STH. AUST. Australian Model News is published bi-monthly to feature STATE CHAMPIONSHIP scale model building and flying together with other modelling events in Australia. 30. AUSTRALIAN FREE FLIGHT SOCIETY Contributing material and requests for inclusion on the distri- bution list may be forwarded to — CHAMPIONSHIPS John Lamont 33. MODEL ENGINES FLY- IN Unit 5, 1326 Main Road, Eltham, 3095 Ph: 03 9431 0044 36. VICSCALE AT P&DARCS E-mail: [email protected] Visit the AMN website at - https://sites.google.com/site/australianmodelnews/ COMING EVENTS On the Cover The Me.323 “Gigant” by Ken Thomas and Mark Collins. RICHMOND SCALE RALLY 2015 4.6m wingspan and powered by six OS 46LA engines. VMAA TROPHY 2015 page 2 Australian Model News In 1948 Ivor enrolls in Teachers College and studies to be a Physical Education instructor. He woos and marries Vera in 1949 and builds a house on a 5 acre block halfway between Doonside and Blacktown. Two children follow, Sand in 1950 and Tahn in 1952. Ivor attends Sydney University part-time and completes a BA in 1955 but also reapplies to the RAAF. He is offered appointment as a Pilot Officer in the Permanent Air Force but does not take up the commis- sion. Instead he becomes an English / History teacher, teaching at Granville Technical School, Westmead and Blacktown Boys High. His relationship with the Dept of Education is “difficult”, telling me at some stage that his file had been annotated in large letters “never to be promoted”. During this period he and Vera become very involved with the Black- town Swimming Pool Committee which is raising money to build a 50 metre public swimming pool. Also during the 60’s Ivor and the Doonside Blacktown Aeronautical Technicians Society (as they had become), who meet twice a week, build a 34’ x 18’ club house at the rear of the Kildare Rd property. Ivor attends and competes in nearly every National Championship (more than fifty in total) and hundreds of children and adults are exposed to \äÉÜ YÜtÇv|á fàÉãx model aircraft and aeromodelling through his various programs. A record unlikely to be equalled. Believing his only chance of promotion is to retrain as a school coun- DLEH @ ECDH sellor, he completes a MA in psychology and agrees to do country service in the far west of NSW at schools such as Wentworth, Hay and Booligal. This is followed by a western Sydney appointment and Ivor Francis Stowe was the first-born to Beverly and Harry Stowe of he eventually becomes a District Guidance Officer. Birmingham England on the 10th June 1925. Apparently it was a long and painful labour, a fact not overlooked by either mother or child. The He collaborates with well known model engine manufacturer Gordon family migrate to Australia in 1927 settling in Doonside. Doonside at Burford to produce the Doonside Mills in the early 70’s, the first of a this time is a largely rural area and Ivor’s domain is the Doonside couple of such projects. creek and the “pump hole” where he builds and paddles tin canoes fashioned from galvanized sheet and packing case ends. At about this Also at this time he decides to publicise spelling reform (SR1) by time he is given a Women’s Weekly Cabin model (a small rubber pow- changing his name by Deed Poll to Ivor F. This period sees him run in ered model aeroplane) and this triggers a life long obsession with the first of his forty-two City to Surfs and put himself up for election at aeromodelling. both state and federal elections, becoming Australia’s “most unsuc- cessful” candidate . He is enrolled at Parramatta High along with Arthur Cooper and it is here that he meets Vera. The ABC crowns him their bicentennial “eccentric” in 1988. He is a serial contributor to the SMH Column 8, a cryptic crossword addict, Although his parents are conscientious objectors, after completing his “annoys the mouth organ”, a reciter of poetry and collector of model matriculation and with the war in the Pacific ramping up, Ivor tries to aeroplane magazines and engines. enlist in the RAAF in 1943. He is rejected because of his childhood medical history but finds no such prejudice in the Army. The first his Ivor was always passionate about any cause he adopted and was first mother knows of this is when she sees him in uniform on Doonside to put his money where his mouth was. Such causes as buying a fly- railway station. Whilst undergoing training he is involved in the recap- ing field at Pitt Town ( the only modeller owned field in the Sydney ture of escaping Japanese POW’s at Cowra and on completion of his basin), establishing state school scholarships for meritorious / disad- training is then deployed to Borneo in 1945. He steps off a boat on his vantaged kids, which he funded by working after retirement, and the 20th birthday on Labuan and is saved from being shot by a sniper who production of 500 control line models to teach kids to fly, are but a few has already killed two of the company. A three month stint in Japan examples. as a medical orderly follows the Japanese surrender and eventually he is demobilized in June 1947. No doubt there are many today who were inspired by his enthusiasm and energy, his spring was tightly wound, and the world is a better At sometime during 1946 Ivor and others form the Doonside Aeromod- place for his having been here. ellers Club. Vale Ivor F. Tahn Stowe Australian Model News page 3 VICTORIAN CONTROL LINE AEROBATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS 2015 Held at Knox MAC in Melbourne over the Easter weekend the F2B PJ Rowland and Murray Howell were the other contenders and also section of this event was also a qualifying round for the selection of held their places throughout to finish second and third respectively. the team for next years World Championships in Perth and drew com- petitors from South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales. Classic Stunt provided a tight finish, Frank Battam taking first place by the narrowest of margins from Tony Bonello with Adam Pogue placing Three aerobatic competitions together with Team Racing and Combat third. made for a busy two days. Fortunately the weather was fine and the breeze light on both days, allowing the close battle for the first three Vintage Stunt was won by Maris Dislers with his Gordon Burford de- places in F2B to continue into the fourth round when Mark Batty flew a signed “Wombat” biplane from David Nobes with his refurbished commanding fourth flight to confirm the first place that he had held “Guided Whistle” and Ken Maier flying a “Ringmaster S1”. from the start. Mark Batty’s winning model in F2B is a Andrev Yatsenko “Shark” powered by a Discovery Retro 76. page 4 Australian Model News Peter Anglberger’s F2B “Classic” by Yuri Yatsenko is electric powered. A nice semi-scale “Mustang” flow in F2B by Adam Pogue and powered by a Saito 72 four-stroke. Winners in F2B (left to right) - PJ Rowland 2nd, Mark Batty 1st, Murray Howell 3rd. Tony Bonello’s “Firecracker” flown in F2B. Reg Towell’s semi-scale “Sea Fury” flown in F2B and powered by a Saito 72 . Australian Model News page 5 PJ Rowland’s “Thundergazer” powered by a PA 75 and flown to second place Doug Grinham’s own design “Starcraft” is electric powered and flew in F2B. in F2B. Maris Dislers’ 2.5cc Oliver Tiger diesel powered “Wombat” designed by engine David Nobes’ ”Guided Whistle” looking like new again and powered by a glo- manufacturer Gordon Burford in 1949 for his GB 5cc diesel engines.
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