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About The Comp
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Large Tomboy Electric
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Small Tomboy Electric
Small Tomboy IC
About The Comp
Welcome to the 2026 NSFC Tomboy Cup (formerly the Tomboy Postal Comp). This year the comp starts on 01 January 2026 and ends on 30 November 2026. You don’t have to be a member of Namadgi Sports Flyers Club, anyone can enter whether you are in the ACT, elsewhere in Australia or overseas, the comp is open to all entrants. There is no entry fee …. yes that’s right it is free to enter!
The Tomboy Cup is a perpetual trophy where the winner in each class will have their name inscribed on a magnificent trophy.
Getting Started
The easiest way to get started is download a copy of the rules (to make sure your Tomboy is compatible), then make a flight (or flights) and record the results then send an email to tomboypostal@gmail.com with your name, the size and engine type for your Tomboy, the length of your flight(s) and your club’s name and your country. Optionally include some pics and a brief report on your flight. If you would like to receive the monthly newsletter then make the first line of your email “subscribe to newsletter”. You can enter as many times as you want and as often as you want.
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Now read on …
Check out the 2026 Tomboy Postal Comp rules or jump straight to one of the results sets of large Tomboy+electric, large Tomboy+IC, small Tomboy+electric or small Tomboy+IC.
Flight Reports:
From Glen, 26 Apr 2026:
Allan notched up an excellent 48” Tomboy diesel flight yesterday of 10:17. The diesels almost need a 100% handicap to compete with the electrics.
Fred also flew a diesel Tomboy during the morning, with the motor singing nicely and providing a decent flight time – but his model has a larger wing and tailplane than the rules allow, so I don’t think he bothered to time the flight.
I had my old and heavy diesel 48” job out as well, but it initially proved indifferent to taking to the air and even once airborne displayed a stubborn reluctance to climb. Allan then assisted by tuning the mighty PAW .09 to better effect and managed to extract a few more of those shy horses – with a resultant half decent climb rate.
Unfortunately, I neglected for a few minutes to look at my watch – whilst concentrating on getting to a decent height, then timed the flight at around seven minutes after that – so maybe “Eight-ish” minutes would be a conservative guesstimate. Certainly not up with Allan’s fine flight time, however.
From Allan, 23 Apr 2026:
The day for the Fly in was cool and there was a good breeze from the South east that had whispers of winter in it. There were 6 Tomboy fliers ‘having a go’ with some first timers. Bill Roberts and Graeme Coronel from BMAC had small diesel powered Tomboys that proved that diesels need to be clean in order to run well. Allan Laycock can attest to this as his 2 diesels also did not perform up to their usual best behavior. Glen Newbown proved that he was proficient with his PAW 1.49 performing beautifully. New comer Phillip Tammen from CMAC also had some issues with his new engine and 48” model. Sorry, Ray Terry but Phil Tammen has beaten you with his time of only 8 seconds* to your 9!! Greg Lance’s and Glen Newbown’s Electric Tomboys performed well except Greg’s did a ‘Runner’ and crashed into the western tree line area near the creek. Dave Pinchbeck elected not to fly his very light 44” electric model in the stiff early breeze.
A few fliers could not make it – maybe next time.
(* included 1.9 very elegant loops according to Glen)
From Neil, 23 Apr 2026:
This is not actually a flight report, its something different … there was a Tomboy, or maybe an old timers, flying day at Tharwa to take advantage of some nice autumn weather. Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves including Allan who had one of those days when several of his models decided to stay ground bound for various reasons (ic engine decided it wouldn’t produce any power, servos died etc)
From Greg, 19 Apr 2026:
A quick report for the Tom Boy comp.
There was some good lift around this morning (19/4/26) after quite a cool start to the day.
James was already in the air with his glider and was obviously in some good air.
I headed to the same area with my Tom Boy Senior and managed a flight of 18 minutes 45 seconds. Obviously I shut my motor down prematurely, as when I checked my battery it still had 18% remaining.
From Glen, 01 Apr 2026:
Just a quick report on today’s Tomboy exploits. Fred has taken the diesel out and replaced it with electric in his smaller class 44” w/s model – immediately blowing the competition away with a stellar 21:03 time. Almost as good as the best time in the larger class.
In the 48” electric class, I still haven’t quite sorted out the two battery set-up, so thought it best to restrict my time to a relatively lazy 15:05 (that’s my excuse anyway). Allan opted to fly a non competition 36”w/s (originally rubber powered) glider which has been converted to electric. This one doesn’t fit into any of our classes, but Al still enjoyed a flight of around ten minutes, I estimate, as we went up together and he was down five minutes or so earlier. Beaut morning again, Stuart, Dave B & Keir were flying foamies but otherwise not a huge attendance.
From Allan, 25 Mar 2026:
A Gathering of ‘Boys’
Some NSFC fliers who had Tomboys gathered at the flying field today (25/03/26) for a fly. The new boy on the block was Dave Pinchbeck with his pretty trans blue and white 44″ Electric model. Dave did some long flights.
Ray Terry had more success today with a couple of good flights. Greg Lance had two Tomboy 48″ Electric models. One had floats but it was deemed there was insufficient water in the dam to try a ROW. The other got High Time for the day.
Glen Newbown was just pipped by Greg for High Time. Fred Burman had a 44″ diesel powered Tomboy that performed well but those diesels cannot compete as their motor runs are way too short as compared to the electric models. Allan Laycock had two electric models. The 48″ did not fly due to break in the battery power lead. The only original sized 36″ Tomboy flew well but did not fly as long as t Dave’s 44″. Those bigger wings do make a difference.
Unfortunately Ray Terry departed early so he and his model are missing from the photographs. Next time Ray ‘linger longer’.
See results below for individual flight times. These times will be added to the Tomboy Cup times.
A great day was had by all with both Fred and Dave saying they think they might build the bigger 48″ one as they fly much better.
Build one and come join in the fun.
From Glen , 22 Mar 2026:
Just that update on the Tomboy results this morning: I think Ray was semi-serious when he asked that his 3 1/2 seconds time was noted on the timesheets. Hopefully he is philosophical about it and no more damage than a broken prop. Do we need to reiterate the sense in doing a control surface check for accurate direction pre-flight, I wonder? I managed a 20 : 20, still 14 seconds shy of Greg’s best time so far, but my PB by a long way. I experimented with a smaller high kv (1,800) motor and smaller 7 x 5 inch prop as opposed to the 10 x 4.7 slow flight (ie wide and draggy) prop I’d been using up to now. A few nice patches of lift didn’t hurt either. I think it shows there is value in experimentation and fine-tuning – which sometimes has benefits. Not always, of course – and there are many variables, such as lift availability.
From Glen, 14 Feb 2026:
A few Tomboy (48” electric) flights today I thought I’d report:
Ray has his first “official” with the newly clipped-wing ex-X Tomboy and scored a very creditable 8min 12sec flight. He still had nearly 30% left, so was urged to push the lipo a bit further on the next attempt. Greg Lance also has his Tomboy up with Ray’s and read the air well to score a record (I think) 18:08. Then to add icing on the cake he went a bit better with an outstanding 20:34 on his second flight. Mighty stuff, Greg. I managed to prove that despite seemingly good air, one can always make the worst of the conditions with a PW of 8:46 – and less than 10% left in a non- motor responsive lipo. Maybe time for some fresh batteries…
From Glen, 04 Jan 2026:
The big, dark clouds were coming in and Allan advised to get up into them higher than I was game to: although the model was reasonably visible it would be getting more difficult to keep orientation had I reached higher – or that was my excuse at least.
Maybe next time if similar conditions arrange themselves I’ll try to get it up higher – in true Viagra spirit. Mind you, what happened to Icarus when he flew too close to the sun?
From Glen, 01 Jan 2026:
Good that you kicked off the year with a couple of decent Viagra glider times. Although my Tomboy flight of 27 December was a tad premature (could it be from the influence of viagra?) I managed a 14:35, with a southerly breeze doing its best to blow the wee ‘boy over the hill to Tharwa.
Large Tomboy (48″ wingspan) with electric motor
Category Leader: Greg with a flight of 21m 44s
Shortest Flight: Ray with a flight of 3.5s
| Date | Pilot | Country/Club | Flight Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 Apr 2026 | Phil | AUS/CMAC | 00m 08s |
| 19 Apr 2026 | Greg | AUS/NSFC | 18m 45s |
| 01 Apr 2026 | Glen | AUS/NSFC | 15m 05s |
| 25 Mar 2026 | Greg | AUS/NSFC | 21m 44s |
| 25 Mar 2026 | Glen | AUS/NSFC | 17m 14s |
| 25 Mar 2026 | Ray | AUS/NSFC | 09m 36s |
| 22 Mar 2026 | Glen | AUS.NSFC | 20m 20s |
| 22 Mar 2026 | Ray | AUS/NSFC | 00m 035s |
| 14 Feb 2026 | Greg | AUS/NSFC | 20m 34s |
| 14 Feb 2026 | Greg | AUS/NSFC | 18m 08s |
| 14 Feb 2026 | Ray | AUS/NSFC | 08m 12s |
| 24 Jan 2026 | Glen | AUS/NSFC | 12m 51s |
| 04 Jan 2026 | Glen | AUS/NSFC | 13m 45s |
| 27 Dec 2025 | Glen | AUS/NSFC | 14m 35s |
Large Tomboy (48″ wingspan) with IC engine
Category Leader: Allan flying his diesel 48″ Tomboy with a flight of 10m 17s
| Date | Pilot | Country | Flight Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Apr 2026 | Allan | AUS/NSFC | 10m 17s |
Small Tomboy (36-44″ wingspan) with electric motor
Category Leader: Fred flying his 44″ wing Tomboy with flight of 21m 03s
| Date | Pilot | Country | Flight Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 Apr 2026 | Fred | AUS/NSFC | 21m 03s |
| 25 Mar 2026 | DaveP | AUS/NSFC | 14m 39s |
| 25 Mar 2026 | DaveP | AUS/NSFC | 10m 41s |
| 25 Mar 2026 | Allan | AUS/NSFC | 09m 43s* |
Small Tomboy (36-44″ wingspan) with IC engine
Category Leader: Fred flying his 36″ wing Tomboy with a flight of 03m 14s
| Date | Pilot | Country | Flight Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 Mar 2026 | Fred | AUS/NSFC | 03m 14s* |