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Prizes Awarded at the 31st Icicle Meet, 4th & 5th January 2003
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: Bottle of Champagne | 1st Dan Wilson, G-BYOK V90, from Norwich2nd Trevor Read, G-BZKW Ultramagic, from Mobberley near Knutsford |
The Hilton Hotels Prize | Main Flying Task – Minimum distance 2km, Grid Reference adding up to 31, tie-break on the most Easterly landing. | The Newbury Building Society Shield (Keep for 1 year). Plus a Weekend Break for 2 people in a Hilton Hotel | Richard Parry in G-CHEL, for the second year running. Landed at Manor Farm, Pewsey. Three others also recorded 31, Vic Trimble, Trevor Read and Colin Butter. |
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. Plus a Lindstrand Sweatshirt. | 1st G-BFFT Red Leader, reg. 7/11/77, Pilot Ian Kerr2nd G-LIFE ex-Schroeder, reg. 11/1/78, Pilot David Hopkins
Other old balloons at the meet included G-BMDJ and G-BMWU |
Aim High Trophy | Smartest balloon, including tethered only. | Trophy (Keep for 1 year)Plus: Bottle of Champagne | 1st G-BMDJ, one of only two Price balloons made. Pilot Richard Benham.2nd would have been G-GPEG, but the balloon was not registered at the meet.
39th would have been G-BRHC, Green Dragon, looking very tired, but the balloon was not registered at the meet. |
Chequers Trophy | Longest Flight from Icicle. | Trophy (Keep for 1 year)Plus: Bottle of Champagne and ballooning calendar. | 1st Vic Trimble in G-OMMM, near Trowbridge, distance of 35.5 km.2nd Ken Chapple in G-BYBS, landed in Urchfont, distance 23.0 km.
3rd Colin Butter in G-DRYS, landed SW of Pewsey, distance 18.4 km. |
Norman Betts Award | Newest Pilot at Icicle | Norman Betts Shield (Keep for 1 year)Plus: Cameron Flight Bag | 1st Neil Willis, check out and solo on Sunday 5th January 2003 in G-BXGD, landing at Devizes Police HQ2nd James Kennedy, Nov 2002
3rd Sarah Bettin, Oct 2002 |
Marsh Benham Trophy | For Services to ballooning in the Newbury area. | Silver RosebowlPlus: Bottle of wine | Awarded to Brian Rippon, for his work in setting up the Icicle Website. |
Other Minor Prizes | For allowing us to use Warren Farm once again as the venue for the meet. | Bottle of whisky | James Liddiard, with special thanks for freezing the field down to Minus 6 degrees Centigrade on Sunday morning, so that 39 balloons could get into the field and fly. |