Scale

I’ll keep this brief, we’ve not long got back from an awesome day at the field (followed by the banquet), none of our lads were flying today, it’s all over and this is basically a final result summary. F4B (Control Line) Danny did plenty enough to secure the Silver medal, 2nd best in the World … Read More

In summary Day 9 proved to be a little lesson in Team Management, some things I got right and others I barely got away with! We hardly needed to rush down to the airfield: 10:30am was the scheduled start time so a relaxed breakfast and a diversion enroute to pick up gallons of water and … Read More

Early start this morning and a late finish! Thanks to the local bank holiday flying started at 8:00am with the last flights of F4C round 1. Also scheduled for 8:00am, and the reason for our early arrival, was the F4B (control line) meeting and with Danny competing in F4B we needed to be there. The … Read More

Day 7 started as mad as day 6 finished, we hurried down to the airfield to crack on with assembling the models. With Nigel still a little unwell and the call to static judging an hour earlier than we had expected, the challenge was on to get all the delicate fancy scale bits like pitot … Read More

Apologies for missing days 4, and 5, to be fair the world may have ended but I wouldn’t have noticed I as was suffering with “Bucharest Belly”, not only that but, with planes stuck in customs, there wasn’t much to report other than a new or varied sob story. So this was the “today or … Read More

First Team Managers meeting of the championships today and it won’t surprise scale championship veterans that organisation of the event has been taken over by the exceptionally capable Pål Anthonisen. From a competitor’s point of view this is very welcome, the plan slightly changes but is easy enough to cope with. At the Team Managers … Read More

Despite the disappointment of not having models, we ended up having a rather good day enviously watching our fellow competitor’s practice flights and seeing the hanger fill with world class models. We still haven’t got our models out of customs but Steffen from the Romanian NAC spent over 2 1/2 hours and at least 2 … Read More

The theme for day 1 has been models held in customs, we’ve been aware of the hold up from midday on the day before travelling. Confident that we could find a solution we carried on packing our bags and preparing to travel. Our personal travel plans all went reasonably well, minor delays and queues for … Read More