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Boomerang Jets (UK) team left the north west London area 4.0am Thursday morning for the long drive to Bopfingen in south west Germany. Although I hate Sat Nav's, we went with that as a route mapper instead of the old fashioned paper map. As it turned out it only went wrong once each way (and I missed the odd turn off instruction) The SN said 630miles (around 1000km) to the destination. The run through the UK was easy and we caught an earlier train under the channel. The run through France, Belgium, Luxenbourg and into Germany was good with minor traffic delays and hold ups. The route we took was very picaresque, lots of hills and valleys. Arriving at the town the SN tried to turn Colin's van into an off road vehicle taking us through a forest-route one! After finding the correct route and arriving at the site we were greeted by many of the European Jet set and a beautiful site and view. Several teams were already there and set up and the organising committee lead by Winnie were hard at work. We decided to chill a little and have a few flights on leckie models and the Habu 32T's and not unpack and fly the Torus's until Friday. Looking around the models as they were assembled, showed us that we were going to be one of the smaller teams as far as model size goes. The Horizon teams new L-39 were stunning, P-200 powered and painted in perfect paint jobs by Stefan and his father.
All but two teams used scale aeroplanes, I think I am right in saying every team except the G team used JetCat turbines, most using JR/Graupner/Spektrum radios and Powerbox equipment. Powerbox sponsored the smoke oil for the second time, over 100Ltrs were burnt.
A full report will appear in most magazines, so I'll stop there. It was a great weekend, nice weather, great food, I eat quite a bit of salad [X(] so there is hope for a few. We visited the Powerbox factory WOW! like a surgery and also had tea at the bosses house (that he built!!) Even the trip back was OK, arriving back home at 2.30am this morning.

Dw