Host: Robert W Davis M.B.E., F.R.A.Ee.S. Venue: Woodchurch Airfield. Kent. Competition Director and Organiser: Matt Hoyland. Chief Judge: Bob Ailles. Judges: Bob Ailles (UK), Bob Ramijn (Netherlands), Andre Lozach (France), Noel Barrett (Ireland), Emanuel Fernandes (Portugal). With thanks to all scribes. FAI Jury: Bob Wasson (UK) President, Kevin Caton (UK), Bert Delaere (Belgium), Gerard Werion (Belgium). Scorers: Kath Hoyand and Marrion Ailles. Caterers: Val Gascoyne and Marie Lomax. Flight Line: Stuart Mellor, Brian Hoare, Ken Moss, Stephen Greenwood, Trevor Plumbe, Mark Pearce. Special thanks to: Steve Hunt and Adrian Harrison for help with the administration and judges catering and to Alan L for collecting the ropes etc. Podium: 1st Loic Burbaud (France) Axiome and YS175. 2nd Kevin Caton (UK) Jupiter with Hacker Q80. 3rd Matt Hoyland (UK) Xigris with Hacker C50. P13 Schedule only: Shlomi Chester. SebArt Wind S Pro. Superb trophies befitting the event were supplied by RCM&E and we would like to thank them sincerely, along with all our sponsors: Areobertics.com, Fast Lad Performance, Electricwingman, Optifuel/Optipower and Plettenberg for their support. The advance party arrived on site Tuesday to find our host cutting our runway. The weather forecast was not good but if correct we should have a good days flying on the Saturday and probably Sunday. After preparing the flight box and roping off on Wednesday thanks to Adrian and Bill Mansell, Ken Moss and Brian Hoare we were ready to greet our guests for practice on Thursday. Making a early start we were able to fly 13 practice schedules before the rain set in for the day. Friday proved to be as the forecast and at the pilots briefing at 7:30am, a majority decision was to cancel all flying for the day. This proved to be right decision with very rain showers and the wind staying above the FAI limit all day. Our thoughts were "how can this change for tomorrow”, but it did with two full rounds of the P13 schedule completed before many enjoyed the get together through the evening at the Holiday Inn Ashford. The wind was around 12/15 mph blowing out from over the pilots left shoulder most of the day. Sunday was better with lighter winds and warm periods. We should congratulate Loic Burbaud for a superb weekends flying winning all three rounds, and the order was established in the first round with Kevin Caton and Matt Hoyland flying well and maintaining their positions. We saw innovative propellers from the German team and a very complicated all moving vertical flying/control surfaces and tail vectoring on Peter Hasse's Progress 3. There were in fact just about as bigger range of models being flown I think I have seen at one competition. Our longest travelled competitor was Shlomi Chester from Israel who won the P13 only competition and flew the F13 for the judges warm-up flight. A special mention for Val Gascoyne and Marie Lomax standing n at the last minute to cater for all through Saturday and Sunday, and of course to Marie for selling raffle tickets. We thank Rob Davies for his welcome, allowing us to use his airfield, presenting the trophies and for his spirited flying display in his original Stearman PT17, and of course to Mike Williams for stirring the Woodchurch air with his 2.6 metre Sukhoi. We had good weather on Sunday but as I was packing away the last bits of equipment around 3.30pm the rain started to fall and it continued pretty much solidly until I left the site on Monday morning. We were indeed fortunate. Ashley