This years State Championships were held at Bendigo in May.  And the winners were:

• F3A: Bill Bloodworth
• Expert: Nathan Marriner
  
• Advanced: Dennis Travassaros
  
• Sportsman:  Will Crossman

Congratulations all.  Read on for humourous moments, full results and pictures.

Competitions are filled with small instances that are seldom made public and are therefore not shared with all the people there.  One thing we have continued to strive for is to keep our ears open so that these small snippets of humour do make it into the mainstream and we all get a taste of them.

These are a few that were overheard at some stage during the recent Victorian State Championship at Bendigo.

• Will Crossman was in the middle of one of his flights on the Sunday.  Jason Sparks was calling for him.  Will came through to execute one of his manoeuvres, which he did very well, and flew out ready to come around and do his next manoeuvre.  For his turnaround, he started climbing in what appeared to be a normal reverse Cuban eight.  At some stage the model changed attitude and was now climbing even steeper. Perhaps a humpty-bump?  A half roll was executed.  Hmmm…maybe a top-hat?  Finally, the model executed what appeared to be a mixture between a chandel, a wing-over, a Lomcevak and a spin and ended up facing the right direction for the next manoeuvre.  Jason, with a bit of a chuckle could only mutter the words, “Nice turnaround Will!”

• Norm Morrish very gladly carried out the duties of line director for the full weekend.  Although you can spot him very comfortably enjoying his tea in his little set-up in the middle of the pits (see website gallery) he was very busy keeping everyone on track.  At one point in time he was discussing some line directing issues with young Chris Nugent.  Chris was enjoying a delicious dim sim expertly prepared by the Hungry BRCAC’s people (a.k.a. The Bendigo Club).  Norm continued his dissertation to the point where he totally lost concentration.  His mouth was watering so much whilst his eyes were staring at this dim sim, that he had to stop what he was talking about and openly ask, “Where did you get that dim sim?”  Next we saw Norm, he was happily walking around with a mouthful of dim sim!!

• Tom Bloodworth had one of those weekends from hell.  For some reason still unknown to any of us (and himself), his brand-spanking new motor will not run properly.  In an effort to get through a full flight without having a flameout, Tom’s efforts were focused on getting his motor to run.  This involved a huge amount of tinkering and taking apart and putting back together.  Not surprisingly, the comment was made by our good friend Bobby Hurst half way through the Sunday morning, “Tom is the biggest ‘taker-aparter-putter-togetherer’ I have ever seen!”

And back to the mainstream.

Full Results in pdf format HERE (right click to download and keep)

Photo Gallery