Airborne Magazine - Issue #249 | Page 65

An Amusing Anecdote I have written about the Millennium Cup in these pages on many occasions. For the benefit of new readers I will just briefly mention that it is a series of thermal glider events held in New South Wales for two-metre two-channel gliders. The very efficient secretary of the Millennium Cup organising committee is Fred Lodden, himself a several times holder of the Cup. Fred has a mailing list containing the e-mail addresses of everyone who has competed at any time in a Millennium Cup event. He keeps us all informed about coming events and distributes the results and a brief report on every event within a day or two of it being run. The following is an extract from his report of the event held at Goulburn early this year. “A local GMAC member flew his quad-copter after about three pilots had launched. This unit had an on-board camera and the intention was to record some