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January 2010
Happy New Year! Hope you are all well, and looking forward to a new years flying! The recession has unfortunately hit the model trade, with several shops closing, and even the big players showing decreased sales. But be positive - the worst is over, and good weather should be on its way - bet a lot of you have found that plastic canopies are very brittle when you crash in the snow!

September 2009
3D Championships, UK A very successful 3D Championships was held again at Croft Water Park - an excellent venue. Yet again CSM pilots dominated, particularly in the Championship class: 1st Duncan Osbourn................4th Rob Turnbull.......................5th Adam Turner 6th Danny Lock........................7th Paul Lison............................9th Peter Ayriss 10 Dave Fisher........................12th Paddy Arnould..................14th Darren Hardy 15th Mike Eddington And we have a few in the Intermediates class: 7th Matt Lodge.......................12th Roger Mayo.........................13th Noel Cross Well done to all, and to the fact that the event raised over £2000 for Cancer Research.
American Nationals, Scale
Darrell Sprayberry has continued to do well in the Scale competitions in America, although he 'only' came 4th this year as his new model wasn't quite complete. Picture right of his Jet Ranger when he took part at IRCHA.
August 2009 Park Hall 3D Cup, UK The 1st Park Hall 3D Cup was held 8-9th August, attracting some of the best UK pilots. As usual CSM had several competitors, and a lot of winners: 90 class ........Duncan Osbourn.................... .50 class ........ .....Shane Marshall Junior class....Stefan Simmons......................Veteran class..... Rob Turnbull (using CSM gear, now sponsored by us!) Electric class..Trevor Burley ........................Also competeing: Andy Johnstone, Mike Eddington amd Matt Lodge

July 2009 International 3D Masters Attracting pilots from all around the world, this annual competition is the showcase of 3D helicopter flying. This year it was held in Spain - guarantees no rain, although there tends to be a sea breeze, and not quite so convenient for accommodation or spectators, but a good load of flying got done! The competitors are getting younger every year - 50 % of the flyers were under 21! Rob McKinstry went along to represent CSM, and make sure our sponsored pilots had everything they needed - not sure his wife was too impressed - it was halfway through their honeymoon!
CSM sponsored many of the pilots taking part: Masters: 2nd Duncan Osbourn, UK 9th Kim Jensen, Denmark 16th Dunkan Bossion, France 17th Jonathan Bossion, France 20th Dave Fisher, UK 21st Andrea Puosi, Italy 22nd Adam Turner, UK					Experts: 4th Peter Roper, UK 12th Michiel Slegers, Netherlands 17th Stefan Simmons, UK 19th Klaus Jensen, Denmark
Duncan also won the Flight to Music category - have a look at his winning flight! Not as many CSM pilots took part this year - we sponsor a lot of Expert level pilots from the UK, and many didn't feel able to take part this time.

June 2009 Dutch Competitions
					Yet again our two Dutch pilots did well in their championships: To the left see Cees Verplanke receiving his trophy for 1st place in the F3C competition, and Michiel Slegers came first in the 3D competition.

May 2009 NEW! RevLock 40 Advanced G-Sensitive Collective Management.
Now there is no need to compromise your set-up between high-g capability and ultimate climb and flight speeds. RL40 intelligently applies collective management to give you the best of both worlds. Like its predecessor, the RL30, this governor will, when needed, limit the amount of collective pitch available to prevent excessive loss of head-speed in high-g manoeuvres. However, RL40 goes one stage further, and by incorporating an accelerometer is able to recognize low-g flight situations such as fast forward flight and vertical climbs where greater performance can be obtained by allowing more collective pitch to be employed even where this results in some loss of head speed. It also greatly simplifies the set-up and installation by removing the need for careful pitch range adjustment. For further details see the RevLock page					... Main unit 30mm x 35mm x 4mm, weight 9g Accelerometer 18mm x 26mm x 4mm, weight 2g RRP £73.50

April 2009 3D Mistral Trophy, France The competition for this trophy was run in early April, and won, yet again by the Bossion brothers, Jonathan 1st and Dunkan 2nd. Watch a video of some synchronised flying they did that weekend. Later in the month was the first round of the Danish 3D competition, and again our two pilots came 1st and 2nd, Kim and Klaus Jensen. Danish National TV was there, recording for a sports program, and this clip was shown on the national news. It doesn't feature our two pilots, but it's nice to see some serious recognition of the sport.

March 2009 Las Vegas Ulimate Helis Mike Fortin, one of our US pilots, came 5th in this competition of the most aggresive 3D freestyle heli flying there is, using a SL720 gyro and RevLock 30.

January 2009 Wishing you a Happy & Prosperous New Year! Well, I hope it's happy & prosperous - the economic climate is looking gloomy, but we're happy to say that CSM continues fine at present. Manufacturing in the UK has sheltered us from exchange rate problems and the increase in costs from Far Eastern salary increases.