First day of competition. Our three man team is ready to go. Bill, John and Richard have their gliders at the ready. Fog delayed the start for a short while but comp started at 7.15, A seven round competition we started on pole 3. Every one maxed the first round but on subsequent rounds everyone dropped, very … Read More
International Team News
Free Flight European Championships, Romania Report – Tuesday 23rd July
GBR F3A Aerobatics European Championships report 1, Belgium
The UK Team of Malcolm Balfour, Brandon Ransley and Thomas David alond with Team Manager Adrian Harrison are in Sivry Belgium competing in the F3A European Championships. There are 60 competitors and the standards are extremely high. Each pilot within the Team has now completed two competition flights in a mixture of conditions from calm … Read More
Free Flight European Championships, Romania. Daily Reports 21st- 22nd July
7am – Further torrential rain has brought chaos to the competition this morning. Competitors are here eager to fly , but conditions are very poor. Most of us are sheltering in cars or under gazebos. Waterproof clothing is the required attire today 9am – Competition postponed until midday due to conditions. 11am – Returned to the field after 11am … Read More
Free Flight European Championships, Romania. Daily Reports 18th – 20th July
Those of us travelling by Whizz Air on the 8.10 am flight to Cluj-Napoca met up at Luton Airport in the early hours of the morning. Numerous large boxes were deposited at the over size luggage desk and we made our way through all the checks. Boarding was quick as soon as we were called, and although … Read More
F3K European Championships, Poland Report Day 1
Following a warm up World Cup event 5-6th July and the opening ceremony on Sunday 7th, the F3K ECH kicked off the first rounds of the championship on Monday 8th. The pre-comp had featured high winds but we found almost calm conditions at the start of the day. Light lift first thing built to large thermals … Read More
F1D World Champs Final Day
So here we are at the last day of the World Champs, its been a long week with seven of them down the mine, its been around 11C down there so not cold but if you are not moving you can start to feel the chill. Nothing to lose today so I was gifted some … Read More
F1D World Champs Day 7
Today is the second of the World Championships and our 6th day in the mine, rounds 3 and 4 have been flown with some interesting results, from a personal perspective I needed to do a lot to improve on yesterdays dismal performance and think I came away successful. Air conditions in the mine were near … Read More
F1D World Champs Day Sunday
Arrived at the mines at 07:45 straight into practice until 09:00, at 09:00 round one starts, each competitor flies one flight per round, conditions early were very good with negligible drift, early in the round Ivan Treger (Slovakia) set a 27:37 flight, the UK team started off with Hans who got a 22:22 flight in … Read More
F1D World Champs day 4 official practice
Early start, breakfast at 06:30, buses to the mine arrive at 07:30 Today is a day of free practice allowing competitors to finalise model set up for main and reserve models, not a great deal happening except get flights in, check and confirm trim, speculate on the drift for the competition days and get around … Read More
F1D World Champs Day 3 Otto Hints Trophy
Friday and things are hotting up (as far as they can in a cold Salt mine), UK team used the day mostly for setting up and practice, strangely Tony’s No 1 model sustained damage overnight and had a broken tailplane in the morning setting him back by several hours. The first full motor flights were … Read More
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