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Prizes Awarded at the 30th Icicle Meet, 5th & 6th January 2002
Name of Prize | Awarded For | Description of Prize | Awarded to |
Veuve Cliquot Cup | Travelled furthest with a balloon specially to be at Icicle Meet. | Cup (Keep for 1 year)Plus: Cameron logo shirt, and bottles of Champagne for 2nd and 3rd places | G-BECK, Malcolm White, travelled with balloon from Dublin. 2nd place, Richard Gyselynck, G-BXHL from Isle of Man; and 3rd David Eliot with G-LIOT from Aberdeen, who would have been first on distance, but told us he didn’t bring it specially to Icicle, it is now staying in the South. |
The Hilton Hotels Prize | Main Flying Task – Grid Reference adding up to 30, tie-break on the most Southerly landing. | Hilton Hotel prize, probably dinner for two, plus the Newbury Building Society Shield (keep for 1 year), plus a bottle of Champagne | Richard Parry, along with several other pilots discovered the grid reference for Warren Farm adds up to 30. Richard did a hop over the Northern edge of the field on Saturday, and just to ensure he was not outflanked by anyone else, did a hop over the Eastern edge on Sunday, getting a more Southerly grid reference by 0.1km. |
Gemini Trophy | Oldest balloon to fly out of the Field. | Wooden Balloon Trophy (Keep for 1 year). Plus small hand carved wooden balloon to keep. | G-BECK (Noddy), Malcolm White. The balloon is a Viva 56, registered in 1976. |
Aim High Trophy | Smartest balloon, including tethered only. | Trophy (Keep for 1 year)Plus: Bottle of Champagne | G-BWKW (Road to Mandalay), Thunder AX8/9, recently brought back to UK after many years in the Far East. Brought to the meet by Phil Dunnington. |
Chequers Trophy | Longest Flight from Icicle. | Trophy (Keep for 1 year)Plus: Probably a weekend for two at a Hilton hotel. | G-RISE, Jonathan Smith, flew to Steventon in Oxfordshire (between Wantage and Abingdon), a distance of 34.2km. |
Norman Betts Award | Newest Pilot at Icicle | Norman Betts Shield (Keep for 1 year)Plus: Bottle of Champagne | Simon Whatley PP401744G/BA, licence dated 29th November 2001, registered G-BULD at the meet. |
Marsh Benham Trophy | For Services to ballooning in the Newbury area. | Silver RosebowlPlus: Bottle of Champagne | Celia Kunert, for her superb achievement in organising the Trade Stands and Social side of Icicle, based at the Hilton hotel. |
Other Minor Prizes | For allowing us to use Warren Farm once again as the venue for the meet. | Bottle of Single Malt. | James Liddiard, with special thanks this year, remembering that FMD is barely behind us, and James has a milk herd of several hundred animals. |