Below is a reminder of the 2013 Bowden taken from the Club magazine.
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Bowden trophy: a win for PMFC.

The weather was the best since 2009, sunny with a light breeze. Well trimmed models with a good glide suffered as the air was very buoyant! As usual a few models ground looped and some took off after some interesting gyrations.

The Bowden is not just a “flight time” comp but also takes into account, among other things, the quality of the takeoff, cruise, transition and landing.

The final, result was very close with PMFC’s Mick Taylor flying his ME Heron powered “Frankenstein” emerging the winner with 193 points. Mick’s Frankenstein was built in 1986 and he has campaigned it ever since!

With Dave Leeding (joint 4th), Bernie Nichols (joint 6th) and Gareth Tilston (8th), PMFC had four members in the top ten. Some previous winners were notably unsuccessful: much to his delight Ted Szklaruk (18th) beat Brian Waterland into 19th

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