Australia's biggest meet of model helicopters is happening at a model airfield 10km south of Cootamundra.

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Updated March 15 2019 - 2:15pm, first published March 13 2019 - 2:59pm
Paul McCarthy (left) and brother Ryan, from Melbourne and Perth respectively, with their Mikados, one without canopy. The batteries give four minutes' flying time.
Paul McCarthy (left) and brother Ryan, from Melbourne and Perth respectively, with their Mikados, one without canopy. The batteries give four minutes' flying time.

Astonishing aerobatics by model helicopters with rotors up to 1.5 metres wide are disturbing the peace in a field south of Coota.

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Tom Gosling

Journalist, Cootamundra Herald

I've had a long career in journalism and corporate communications, starting with country newspapers, radio and TV in northern NSW and including ABC News Sydney and the Melbourne Herald. I edited The University of Sydney News for 10 years, and was Media Officer for CSIRO in Canberra and BHP Steelworks in Port Kembla.

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