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2018 BMFA League 1

22 April 2018

Mark Abbotts swings past the centre at Levisham

All weathers at Levisham

The first league event of 2018 got off to a good start with 17 entrants battling it out at Levisham.

Nine rounds were flown with a single stoppage for rain. Flying conditions were quite testing, with a turbulent breeze mixed in with the odd thermal - in other words, typical Levisham!

Rich Bago took top honours, flying his FS5 with great flair. Steve Haley was close behind with his Pike Precision 2, and Pete Gunning took third spot. Honourable mentions too, for Nigel Witchalls and Brett Larrett who achieved personal bests.

The prize for eye candy went to the Redshift, designed by Jim Hammond in Taiwan, and flown by Greg Dakin, John Phillips and Mark Passingham. This model is refreshingly different, with an unusually high aspect ratio and rather fetching colour scheme. "Team Redshift" took 5th, 6th and 7th places.

Results

1  R Bago         7366.25   1000.00
2  S Haley        7307.70    992.05
3  P Gunning      6990.40    948.97
4  M Treble       6921.93    939.68
5  J Philips      6825.38    926.57
6  G Dakin        6816.33    925.34
7  M Passingham   6613.41    897.79
8  E Maxwell      6575.86    892.70
9  J Edison       6570.50    891.97
10 M Evans        6445.11    874.95
11 B Larrett      6385.67    866.88
12 D Watson       6369.74    864.71
13 N Witchalls    6362.02    863.67
14 M Abbotts      6361.80    863.64
15 M Shellim      6142.39    833.85
16 J Treble       6090.59    826.82
17 B Dickenson    5631.74    764.53

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to Jon, Mark, Rich and all helpers.

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