I'm sure a great number of us remember the Scrapheap Challenge programs that used to be on TV, where teams gathered in a scrapyard and were set a challenge to design and build a machine to fulfil a specific remit using scrap salvaged from around the yard. It was, for us shed tinkerers, enjoyable TV. So when I received an email from the Secretary of the Gloucester Model Flying Club asking if our club would like to enter a team into their Scrapheap Challenge, Iwas intrigued and circulated this around our club's members and very soon had solicited enough interest to put together a team.
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