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The British Model Flying Association |
 College is National Electric Plane Competition runners up for third year in a row.
Ten A level physics students are this week celebrating a third year as runners up in the National Electric Plane competition held at Elvington Airfield, Yorkshire.
The competition which runs alongside the Heavy Lift Challenge invites schools, colleges and universities from across the country to construct a plane to carry the greatest cargo during a ten minute time slot.
St Joseph’s College team, having spent just under a year researching, designing and constructing two planes, suffered a couple of blows prior to leaving for the event, however with much burning of the midnight oil they were finally ready to compete.
Following a night camped out at Elvington, the students gave the judges a presentation on the two planes, before preparing for their first flight. The day started well with a successful flight by the heavy lift plane carrying 3kg, however the second flight saw the plane laden with 4kg take a spectacular nose dive to the ground taking them out of the competition.
The second competition involved the electric plane flying over the required circuit full of 20 eggs, before landing, restocking and taking off again. The final payload after a 10 minute slot was 114 eggs.
Sadly the next flight saw the plane experience technical difficulties and so they lost out to Strathclyde by just 5 eggs.
The competitors were all aeronautical students from universities except Allenyes School from Staffordshire. The universities use the competition to give curriculum time on aeronautical design and flight theory, so quite a remarkable success for these A level students. Well done everyone.
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