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This years calendar competition is now closed and has been handed over to the judges. Results are published over several days beginning on 16th October and final set on 23rd October.In Airscene’s “One More Competition” I am inviting you to see how close you can get to the overall overall results.

Its not a big prize but I am offering a years free advertising on Airscene to the winner and have arranged the same on the Uradnet banner network of your choosing. (advertising can be for a website or for a specific product placement - websites or products which are deemed to be offensive or indecent will not be promoted).

To enter…

Select your favourite 12 entries from the 83 shortlisted at http://www.airscene.co.uk/competitions/2012calendar.php, then award points from 12 (for the best) down to one point.

Put your selection in a text file (include your name and town at the top) and email to 2012cc@airscene.co.uk

Entries must be received BEFORE 16th October.

Winner will be the person who has the highest number from the judges selection in their own selection. In the event of a tie, a points system is used for positioning.

Good Luck

Final reminder… the Airscene 2012 Calendar Competition AND the Photobook competition both close at mid-day 30th September.

If you haven’t entered yet (or not submitted your second entry) please do so ASAP. This is a strict deadline and any entries received after will be deleted.

To enter please visit http://www.Airscene.co.uk/competitions.php

To those who have already entered - Good Luck.

Cosford RAF Museum have confirmed their prize offering which will be allocated to the 3 runners up place in this years competition.

Each runner up will win the following:

RAF Museum T Shirt - http://www.rafmuseumshop.com/node/4305

RAF Museum Teddy Bear - http://www.rafmuseumshop.com/node/4594

The RAF Museum’s aim is to preserve an important part of Britain’s national aviation heritage and to display it for future generations. At Cosford we have collections of artefacts unique in the world.

Donate to RAF Museums in London & Cosford and help us preserve our unique collection. We are a registered charity (no.244708).

Want to be the first with tickets to the Royal International Air Tattoo 2012?

In that case you may be interested to know that the winner of this years calendar competition will be the first with a pair of tickets to RIAT 2012 AND a DVD of RIAT 2011.

The Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) is the world’s largest military air show, held annually over the third weekend in July, usually at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom in support of The Royal Air Force Charitable Trust. The show typically attracts a total of 150,000 to 200,000 spectators over the weekend.

RIAT 2011 will be held on 16-17 July 2011. This year’s Air Tattoo will look back over the past four decades as it celebrates the show’s 40th anniversary with a series of special aerial displays and ground entertainment. It will also host a gathering of specially-decorated ‘Tiger’ aircraft from the NATO Tiger Association. ‘Tiger’ aircraft come from NATO squadrons that have a Tiger or Big Cat in their emblem and their association marks its 50th anniversary in 2011.

To find out more about RIAT and this years airshow please visit www.airtattoo.com/airshow

For rules & entry to this years competition please visit www.airscene.co.uk/competitions.php

Entry in the Airscene Calendar competition means getting to an airshow, which is something that many of you are unable to do year in year out due to other commitments.

For this reason Airscene is pleased to announce a little competition which everyone should be able to enter. The rules are very simple:

Entrants allowed to post 2 images, must be taken in 2011 and belong to the entrant. Subject matter: Any photo taken at an airport.  The competition is hosted on Airscene forums, please visit for further details: http://www.airscene.co.uk/competitions.php

Air Frames Imaging have kindly offered the prize for this competition - a hard back copy of “Air Displays 2010” valued at £24.99.

 Closing date of competition is 31st July whereby a small Airscene panel will choose the best entry.

Good Luck

Airscene is pleased to announce the continuation of support for its annual calendar competition, by Europe’s leading aviation publisher Key Publshing Ltd.

As with previous years Key have committed to vouchers totally £300 to be spread across the first 3 prize positions as follows:

1st prize - £150 vouchers (to include p&p)

2nd prize - £100 vouchers (to include p&p)

3rd prize - £50 vouchers (to include p&p)

The Airscene 2012 Airshow Calendar competition can be found at www.Airscene.co.uk/competition/2012calendar.php

Key Publishing’s portfolio include both trade and consumer magazines, books and DVS’s covering many and varied aviation interests from historic biplanes to the latest military marvels, and flight sims to baggage truck technology. Please visit www.keypublishing.com and visit their online shop.

This years Calendar Competition is now officially open!

Discussions are now taking place with prospective sponsors, and I am hoping to begin making announcements with regard to prize allocation within the next few weeks. The competition is open each year before the prizes start rolling in as early bird interest helps with sponsorship. So if you have a photograph taken at an airshow last season you may of course enter it into this years competition as one of your two permitted entries. You second entry however MUST be taken during the 2011 Airshow season.

There is a single small change to the rules for this year; all entries submitted must be in the 2 * 1 landscape format - vertical or square formats will be rejected. This change is brought about by the need to ensure all entries are judged on the same basis, and not to expect judges to decide if there is a suitable crop within an entry.

Prize allocation is expected to be the same as last year e.g. 1st, 2nd and 3rd, with 3 runner up places. Please ensure to read all rules before submission.

Good Luck, and I look forward to receiving your entries.

For those of you who need another reason to enter this years calendar competition, how about another 200 reasons instead…. the £200 Icom IC-R6!

Icom UK Ltd are adding this powerful pocket sized scanner to the first prize pot for this years competition, taking the total value of first prize to over £500, making this years prize pot the biggest ever.

Ian Lockyer, Marketing Manager for Icom said, ‘ While retaining basic features of its popular predecessor the IC-R5, the IC-R6 contains many improvements including 100 channel per second scanning speed, 1300 memory channels, 15 hours of continuous receive capability, optional drop-in charger stand and voice control squelch. All these new features combined with a high degree of usability means that the IC-R6 will be equally at home with any casual listener of broadcast stations or the serious scanning enthusiast seeking a pocket sized quality receiver.’

To read more about this fantastic little scanner visit http://www.icomuk.co.uk/categoryRender.asp?categoryID=3508&cCID=16684

Ian

Aviation author has now confirmed her offer of 2 books for the prize pot in this years calendar competition… 

A Hardback copy of Aviation History (valued at £54) will be added to the first prize
and a paperback of Abbreviations, Acronyms and Alphabets of Aviation (valued at £23) will go towards the second prize.

www.annemilbrooke.com

I expect to be able to announce further prizes during the coming months.

Ebury Publishing have now drawn 2 winners out of the hat for the “Boys’ Book of Airfix” book draw and I can now confirm the winners are:

Andrew Pearson from Stevenage

Simon Yau from Burton-on-Trent

Congratulations to both winners! Contact details have been passed on to Ebury Publishing and prizes should be on the way soon.

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