20 WEEKENDSPORT East Gippsland News Weekend | October 2024 Flying high - a spectacular festival Bairnsdale and District Model Aero Club’s (BADMAC) 2024 Festival of Flight has been hailed the best yet by organisers. Planes from New South Wales and Victoria converged on the club’s Goon Nure site, put on two days of magnificent and spectacular displays in clear skies in front of huge crowds. With plane participation in the 50s, you couldn’t wipe the smile of smile off the face of Victorian Model Aeroplane Association, president and BADMAC contest director, Tony Wilson. “It’s a perfect day for flying and we have been well very supported by the pilots, many who come from some of the 70 clubs that exist in Victoria,” Wilson said. Australian pattern champion, Seth Hungerford from Bunyip, who flies with the Sale club, was on hand to give a display of his immense skills. At just 13 years old, Hungerford has also finished fourth in the junior world championships and 16th at senior level, the crowd showing their appreciation of his efforts. “It’s great to have Seth and world champion, David Law here among the record number of pilots,” Wilson said. Law recently won the FC4 World scale championship in Romania after travelling to Europe for 30 years to compete at the highest level. From Cardinia, in Law’s class you are required to build a plane to scale including every component and then fly it in a scale manner, replicating what the full aircraft would do. So what is the actual event intact entail? “So the class I’m in, which is therefore C, you are required to build every component of the model,” Law said.”I was required to do acrobatic manoeuvres, and the basic stuff like take off, landing, figure eight, it’s model on a plane I measured up at Moorabbin Airport, a Pitts s2b.” Law took on pilots from all over Europe and America, with one of the 20 planes he has at home in his garage. You would think flying at this level would be daunting, but not for Law. “The most nerve-racking part is getting the aircraft to a show in one piece, mine was damaged on the way back from Romania, but thankfully I have been able to fix,” Law said. Bairnsdale and District Model Aero Club best propeller plane - Wes Wright. (PS) Best turbine - Adrian Fasham. (PS) Best glider - Wes Wright. (PS) Best control line - James Morfitt. (PS) Best helicopter - Les Hawkins. (PS) World Champion David Law was hand last weekend (right), flying at the Festival of Flight at the Bairnsdale and District Model Aero Club site at Goon Nure. Australian pattern champion Seth Hungerford gets ready to give a demonstration at Bairnsdale and District Model Aero Clubs Festival of Flight at Goon Nure last weekend.
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