24th March 2025
Hey Oily Handers, the new year is moving along and it’s time to start thinking Oily Hand. Notice that as usual it is the last weekend in August, not the weekend before as has been mentioned on some calendars and internet sites. As usual you can arrive round lunch time on Friday of the 29th to re-familiarise your self with the field, get some testing done, drink tea, eat rock cakes and talk shit. It is a good idea to get your accommodation booked as soon as you are able – you can download our guidance for Accommodation & Info here Cowra Oily Hand Day Accommodation
We no longer are doing model of the meet. Instead we have picked a theme which broadens the scope for models which can be built, meaning more exciting and varied models at Oily Hand. The themed model of the meet for 2025 is biplane. All you need to do is build a biplane , any biplane (or you might already have one in the hangar), it can be F/F, R/C or C/L – any design, any size and you can scale it up or down and change the design. The over-riding rule is that it must conform to the Oily Hand Day engine formula. You can download it here Oily Hand Engine Formula . On Saturday lunch time all the biplanes will be displayed on the central C/L circle just as we did for Model of the Meet and all participants and spectators will have a chance to check them out. They will be judged by an ‘expert panel’, but the judging criteria will not be known beforehand. Believe me it will not be for the prettiest model – Oh no! no! no! – the criteria will be drawn from the hat just before judging and the judges will be a random selection and not necessarily modellers.