Kirchheim 2009

Photos added in Picassa and results in f3b.info I will post a report in few days. See you in Munchen!!!!!

Kirchheim Podium

1- Andreas Herrig
2- Peter Hubbertz
3- Martin Herrig

Results after 3rd Round

1- Peter Hubbertz 8739
2- Andreas Herrig 8735
3- Andreas Bohlen 8568
...
64- Daniel Portella 7258
85- Carles Aymat 6373
93- Alberto Portella 5372
94- Sergi Valls 5166

Results after 2nd Round

1- Andreas Herrig 5789
2- Peter Hubbertz 5770
3- Andreas Bohlen 5648
...
52- Daniel Portella 4849
90- Carles Aymat 3806
93- Alberto Portella 3557
96- Sergi Valls 3074

Distance Record

Tobias Knoblauch has made 36 laps!!!!!!!

Results after Speed and Duration 2nd Round

1- Andreas Herrig 4789
2- Peter Hubbertz 4770
3- Armin Hortzitz 4667
...
64- Daniel Portella 3849
88- Carles Aymat 3206
96- Alberto Portella 2757
97- Sergi Valls 2509

Results after Round 1 + Speed Round 2

1- Martin Herrig 3898,20
2- Peter Hubbertz 3836,60
3- Andreas Herrig 3803,93
...
76- Daniel Portella 3003,78
82- Carles Aymat 2765,47
95- Alberto Portella 2226,01
97- Sergi Valls 2006,41

Total Pilots 101

In briefing

GeoTagged, [N48.52919, W9.39887]

Everything prepared. Now we are in breafing

We already arrive :-)

After 12 hours in car the trip has ended. We are going towards the field to set the winches.

Kirchheim

Yeaaahhhh!!!!! In few hours Carles is going to pick up in Barcelona to go to Kirchheim. :-) I hope I will be able to inform you on-line with some reports or results.

League 1 at Upton upon Severn on the 5th April

New report of Chris Jubb from UK. Thank you very much for your effort ;-)

"Fish Meadow, always a nice venue kindly lent to us for the day by The Malvern Club.
L1 was the first event to be held combining both A and B leagues into one league. This was due to the low numbers of B pilots entering during 2008.
It did work well, although the CD Clive confessed to not liking the one league system because of difficulties with administration and manning of the bases. It does need a lot of understanding and help from all of the pilots putting of the tinkering and gossiping to man the bases and help expedite the competition.
Only new face this year was Neil Harrison flying his now very dusty Instinct home brew machine.
Ken Woodhouse was the B league pilot promoted to the A league for 2009.

All pilots flew the same planes that appeared at the speed comp so no new toys to report. The weather was great sun almost all day. 14 pilots took part.

Round 1 Slot 1 Duration
Split into 3 groups.
Lift was marked by circling birds and all took advantage
Mark Passingham (Ceres) 9:58 +100 landing bonus took the first slot narrowly pipping Bill Haley 1st place on Ascot and Dave Worrall (Crossfire+). Both falling short with 95 landing bonuses.

Round 1 Slot 2 Duration.
Ken Woodhouse (Radical) took the second slot from Norman Quirk (Europhia) and Mike Challinor (Precious) with Steve Haley( Radical) in 4th, again scores were within a couple of seconds but only Ken managed 100 landing bonus.

Round 1 Slot 3 Duration.

Neil Harrison managed to out point this group with Clive Needham (Tragi) and Chris Jubb (Tragi) following 2.5 minutes adrift.

Round 1 Slot 1 Distance.

Steve Haley managed to pip Paul Carrington (Needle 124) by one leg 24 to 23 with some masterly flying from both pilots. Dave Worrall had a bad start to his Distance season with i think 3 refly attempts that allowed him only time for 9 legs.

Round 1 Slot 2 Distance.

Ken Woodhouse and Bill Haley fought tooth and nail to gain dominance in this slot but to no avail as they both ended with 17 legs against Norman Quirk, just 1 leg adrift.

Round 1 Slot 3 Distance.

Mark Passingham won this slot easily with 20l with Alan Jones 18l and Chris Jubb 15 following on.
Mark did suffer a bad de-lamination of one of his Ceres wings at mid span maybe after a heavy landing. It was thought that this would put an end to his R1 hopes. He was however able to effect a good repair that allowed him to continue in R1.

Round 1 Slot 4 Distance.

Neil Harrison showing that there is life in the old Instict and Bob Dickinson (Crossfire+) took top placings with 16l

Round 1 Slot 5 Distance.

John Stewart (Estrella) managed 21 blistering legs against Mike Challinor after Mike had a troubled time with three attempts at launching.

R1 Speed.

Steve Haley (Who will challenge him) was a good 4 seconds faster than the rest of the field. Mark Passingham found the attraction of the safety flag to great and received a zero point.

R2 Speed.

Steve Haley again showed his skills to advantage bettering Paul Carrington and Mike Challinor by a good 2 seconds.

R2 Slot1 Duration.

Ken Woodhouse and Steve Haley both with a full house took this slot.

Round 1 Slot 2 Duration

Clive Needham and Alan Jones battled it out for this slot with Clive just edging in with the landing bonus.

Round 1 Slot 3 Duration

Dave Worrall 10:01/95 took the 2nd slot with Bill Haley 10:03/90closely following.

Round 2 Slot 1 Distance.

Pul Carrington took this slot with 20 l against Norman Quirk.

Round 2 Slot 2 Distance.

John Stewart won this slot with 11l. Chris Jubb retired with a broken flap servo.

Round 2 Slot 3 Distance.

A very closely fought slot with all pilots in much the same air. All flying some way out from the field boundaries. Dave Worrall 26l managed to gain 1 leg over Mike Challinor 25l.

Round 2 Slot 4 Distance.

Bill Haley comfortably managed to complete 5 legs over his nearest competitor Clive Needham to take this slot.

Round 2 Slot 5 Distance.

Steve Haley 17l just pipped Mark Passingham 16l by one leg to take this slot."

2009 New Zealand Soarchamps

Here you have a small report about F3B Contest in 2009 New Zealand Soarchamps made by David James (Thank you very much David):

"Yeah - great contest at a great venue. Great to have wind to launch into as most of our comps are not good like that. Two full rounds and finished with round 3 speed. The best speed times were all by Joe Wurts in the 15sec bracket. Joe did fly a very fast 13.1 sec unofficial run in round 2 - the fastest some of us have seen a F3B ship go. 13 sub 20sec runs in all. Joe first followed by Chris & Dave. Dave flew a 16.69 & Chris a 16.91. Best distance laps was 22 laps by Joe & Richard Thompson."

See some photos in New Zealand Radio Control Soaring Yahoo Group

New Contest in France

Second contest of French F3B Season. Roland Henninot is really strong with Shooter, remember he made a good WC in Swiss, take care of him in Ivančic.

Report, Results, Photos and Video in f3bfrance.com

How far we go?

I've allready read Mike Lachowski's blog and I think I'm insane...

"Had a good weather day yesterday to get in a little practice. Best speed run was 11.44 sec with the Freestyler."

Guau!!!!!! We are going to have a new world record in Task C this Summer? I hope so... I know it will not mine... :-P ...but will be yours?

15th Salzburger Wanderpokalfliegen 2009 Information

I've collected some links with reports, results and photos about 15th Salzburger Wanderpokalfliegen 2009:

Photos from LSV Salzburg site
Results from LSV Salzburg site
Report form Thomas Dylla site
Report from Reto F3X post in rcgroups.com
Photos from Reto F3X post in rcgroups.com
Report and Photos from Reto F3X post in rcgroups.com

Enjoy them!!!!!

15th Salzburger Wanderpokalfliegen 2009

15th Salzburger Wanderpokalfliegen 2009 has finished, photos are posted in LSV Salzburg site. Results will able tomorrow.

and the F3B World Campionship 2011 goes to...

China!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Faudoas 2000

Texto de prueba

Altus

Some time ago, Dieter Perlick post an ad in rc-network.de to sell an Altus Kit of Moulds, immediately we contacted with him and made the best offer for them. We have allready made first model. It made first flights last Sunday and will be flown in Faudoas contest next one.

If you have an Altus in your hand you realize that model is a small Warp-T with short Caracho 3K wings. I was affraid with weight, there were no reasons, finall weight 2,021 Kg

I don't know when, but Altus will be my next Toy (I have the scheme colours now I just have to decide myself)

Feelings of people that have flown Warp are good, so needless to say that this machine will work good and better. Do you know some plane made by "DP" didn't work? ;-)


Image Source - http://blog.f3b.es own by Alberto Portella

Updating Blog

Added in "F3B in WWW" Section link of: United Kindom F3B site

Added in "Next Events": 15th March Speed Contest - Wetlands (UK)

Funny US F3B Fund Raising Commercial

US Team has posted a comercial for their Fund Rising. Help them to reach the goal of $18,500!!!!

2008 F3B Swiss National Contest

Looking for information about Mörsburg Cup 2009 that will be hold on 18-19th July in Winterthur I have found a link with lot of photos and results of 2008 F3B Swiss National Contest. I know I'm late but always is nice to take a look ;-)

Updating Blog

Added in "F3B in WWW" Section link of:

Kai Averwerser site

German Team Site

Everybody was waiting it. Finally German F3B Team has shown its homepage. Amazing Team to enjoy seeing how works in the field and the worst nightmare in every slot you have to beat them.
Are we going to live a new exhibition of Herrig Bros.? Which plane will be the Star of the competition? Is Germany going to hold Team Championship? I will not be there :-( but I hope to follow by WWW :-)

Crossfire 2 and new trends

Hey... Aerotec guys has a new version of Crossfire, it seems that they want to follow the new trends in f3b model designs, I hope price do not make the same. Enough 1.800 € models and Go on with 1.ooo € ones...!!!!!

Updating Blog

Added in "F3B in WWW" Section links of:

Kjell Sture's Blog
f3b.ru site (use google translator if you don't understand Russian)

Updating Blog

Added in "F3B in WWW" Section links of:

Alberto Portella's Blog
John Rasmussen and Jan Hansen site
Instinct F3B
Zenith F3B

Updating Blog

Updated "Next Events" Section

Updating Blog

While I'm watching Nadal vs Federer I have updated my "F3B in WWW" section adding Fabrice Estival and Mike Lachowski sites.

It seems I'm going to Faudoas in mid March to one day contest... :-)

Distance and Speed clinic at ETB

People from RSA have made his first contest of the season to prepare next wc. Team will formed by Michelle Goodrum, Craig Goodrum and Dion Liebenberg. They flew 5 rounds (task B & C). Final scores were:

1 Michelle Goodrum 4882.35
2 Paul Cannell 4632.35
3 Craig Goodrum 4233.33
4 Alan Smith 3891.18
5 Dion Liebenberg 3857.14
6 Craig Baker 3850.84
7 Herman Weber 3655.50
8 Derek Maurisch 3603.68
9 Piet Rheeders 3317.74
10 Lionel Brink 3136.27
11 Stephen Liebenberg 3077.54
12 Jason Weber 2867.68
13 Robert Davis 2665.40
14 Stepahne du Ponsel 2303.92
15 Jono Gomer 1544.44

You can see whole results in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mgasa/message/12812

F3B In Cal Valley 09

Americans have made first contest of season past weekend, lot of photos and results in RCgroups.com. Personally I think the Winner was the Chef. Seriously, congratulations to Mike Smith for his victory and everybody who flew and helped in this event.

New Toys for 2009

In spite the weather forcast we have gone to the field... Today Dani and Carles had to make their first flights with winch of their Radicals and Freestylers. We didn't have best conditions but we have felt the potential of both planes. I foretell good results for them.

Gone with the wind...

I have met with my pals this morning to try out their new "Toys". But it looks a rare intense wind don't want to allow. The wind is so strong...

Tangamania

Stefan Böhlen has published a site about new toy of Bretamodel: Tanga. You can set your personal colour scheme. Maybe we will meet a Tanga Team in future Eurotour Contets...

First Contests of the year

It seems this year f3b guys are cheerful, in France has begun the registration for their contest, and there is a waiting list of 19 pilots for first contest of the year in Eurotour in Salzburg aside the 70 pilots already registered, this year in Spain seems we are not going to have more than one contest so this year we'll have to make lot of kilometers... :-)

First flights of 2009

Very bad start of Season :-( I hadlot of problems to make good launches with New Age and my Caracho is still death after a lost of control in its second launch, so now I just have one plane in good conditions for whole season, my dream of go to Kircheim and Munich this year is vanishing :-( Best of the day... see my friends and specially Walter Reist (I haven't met with him for a lot of months). I try to fly again in two weeks to improve the launch of my loyal Newie.

But not everything have been bad news, I have had in my hands a Radical... what an amazing fuse guys! I hope Dani, the owner, will have lot of successes with him.

I have posted some photos, click here to see them.

Schizo

Daryl Perkins, Lord of the F3B's WC, was developing a F3B model called Schizo, some days ago I e-mailed him asking for it. He responded very soon and sent me some photos, here is the answer (very interesting opinion about the new trends in f3b planes):

"... did build and sell a few. It was a pretty amazing model, but fit and finish was a bit lacking compared to the models of today, and even though it was crazy fast, and stiffer than any model I've ever seen (I could sit on the center panel).... guys were not happy. I ended up selling the molds to a guy in the NorthEast.

Kyle Paulson flew it in all the local F3F events and went undefeated with it. He loved it. It's VERY fast. Fastest model I've ever seen. It had some launch and spiral stability issues, and Tony Johnson, the guy who bought it, is adding some dihedral to the center panel, and making a cross tail for it. That will really make it a great model.

I still don't agree with the direction the newer F3B models have taken with regards to size. They're giving up so much in launch. While they have done amazing things cleaning them up since I was successful (the sections, the smaller cleaner fuses, etc...), I think over the next few years, you'll see the models get larger again in an effort to get some of the launch back..."

Next year will be on production his last design, a f3j model, Stalker 3.9

F3B WC Logo

Hey...! We already have logo!!!!!

F3B Videos

I'm sure you have already seen these videos but in case I'm wrong:

Spreepokal F3B Eurotour 2008
F3B WC 2009 selection for Japan Team

Enjoy them!!!!

Evolution V Tail

Hey...!!! Jiri Tuma has developed a V-tail fuse for Evolution. New season... new versions...

Unlucky F3F Sunday

We have the sixth Contest of Catalonian F3F League 2008. I was going to released a nice second hand Caracho, unfortunatelly I crashed it in my third test fly on landing :-(

Best of the day... Hugo. 8 years old child that made his first flights in official contest. I hope to see very soon in F3B one :-) More photos here.

F3B World Championship 2009 Site

We have site for F3B WC!!!!! Bulletin nº1 already posted.

F3B WC in Sacramento on 1981

Exploring www I have found a report about 1981 WC made by people from Peru.

Good wedding gift for Andreas Böhlen

Congratulations to Mr & Mrs. Böhlen for their wedding. Needless to say that everybody would like to receive a present as Andreas received. I know someone that brought his wife (Just Married!!!!!!!) to Munich in their honeymoon travel... But I don't have words for this...

Source from http://www.teamswiss-f3b.ch/

F3B Dutch Team Site

Dutch team already have its site for F3B WC 2009.

North Island F3B Series 2008

Congratulations to Chris Kaiser and Peter Barrell for their winnings in A and B League. I see that Caracho 3000 still works very good in these lands. Visit their site to read Summaries and Results.

RSA F3B Trials 2008

Congratulations to Craig Goodrum, Michelle Goodrum, and Dion Liebenberg. They will represent RSA in F3B WC 2009. Nice report of the competition in RSA F3B Blog

Tanga

Bretamodel has released a new plane for next season: Tanga. It looks nice!!!! Image source from www.lomcovak.cz

Spreepokal 2008

Spreepokal has ended. As usual, Herrig Brothers were in the podium (Martin 1st and Andreas 2nd) Results and small report are posted in club site

F3B Swiss Championship

You can read a report in F3News about Swiss Nats where Bohlen brothers make both 13'6 seconds in the same round of task C. Andreas with Shooter and Stefan with Precious.

F3B Pla de Vent Open Reports

Alberto Portella and Fabrice Estivalshave published both reports in their blogs about Pla de Vent Open. Reports, results and photos are available.

No F3B Budget for 2009

I'm not going to buy new F3B toys for next season. It will be enough my Newie and my Caracho. 2009 budget it will just for travels (I hope) By the way I have bought a tool that will help me to update my blog in any place :-)

1st F3B Open Pla de Vent

Every year in Spain is more difficult to organize f3b contests :-( Merino Family use to organize the F3B Nats with great effort. All Spanish f3b-ers should be very grateful. This year my club after 25 years has decided to set a contest. We met 11 pilots (including Fabrice Estivals from France) and we made 4 rounds. You can see the results in Alberto Portella blog.

Merino Bros. and Fabrice Estivals made the podium. Local pilots didn't have oportunities to achieved the first positions by penalties, crashes, tactical errors,... Best speeds for Fabrice with two 16.XX and best distance for Sergi Subies (27 laps) The organization was perfect and the environment very warm.

Im sure will be 2nd Edition!!!

Task B Team Record

Hey!!! A new success for F3B at Home Team!!! Last weekend we achieved a new team record with 27 laps in a Distance Round of 1st Pla de Vent F3B Open. Sergi Subies flew his brand new Ceres helped by me. I think this mark is the same that national record. We are not used to have great joy in last contests so we have to shape with these small victories. We hope next season will be better for our team!!!

:-P I'm still alive

Hi Everybody!!!!!

10.000 mails pending to read in my hotmail e-mail account (No comments) . If you have something good to explain me write me to f3bathome@gmail.com

Greetings.

Sergi "Missing" Valls

PS: Mike, thank you very much for your present. I love the Jacket!!!!! Go USA!!!!!

Schweizermeisterschaft F3B 2007

Last weekend was hold Swiss F3B Nats. Podium was formed by Bohlen Family. Andreas flew a new plane... This time a Precious... Are we going to see in WC two pair of brothers flying planes from same builder?. I think I'm going to see an amazing fight between Herrig and Bohlen brothers :-)

Photos
Results
Report (google translation)

XXXIII Torneo Villa de Madrid

Lot of time with no updates, I have been a litlle bit bussy this week because my job. Last weekend I was in Madrid in XXXIII Torneo Villa de Madrid. My father and me travel on Friday to make some flights in the field, we made more changes of lines than flights because the strong wind, I was afraid the weekend would be a nightmare but finally wind wasn't a matter :-)

The contest was going to start at 3 o'clock so we went to the field in the morning to set the tent, boxes and winches. We were 32 pilots and we just made two rounds (one per day). Very strong wind all weekend long so you had to take care in launches. The key of this contest (every year) is to be very careful, we never made more than three rounds, so If you make a fail you lost all your oportunities to get a good classification. I had this idea in my mind and after a horrible result in f3b nats I wanted to make a good performance and... I got it!!!!

Yes, I made my best result in a national contest 4th classified, that would be third because a wrong decision of the organzization (not unique). More people was affected by this decision. In round 1 of duration two pilots of the same team had to fly in the same group, they made an unofficial claim and after the answer of the organization they refused to fly this task. Second sad event was that organization join two pilots with the same frecuency in a duration group, the pilots lost their planes, one of them was a Portuguese pilot. Portuguese pilots decided to retire from the contest because they were very upset with organization.

Personally and fortunately I didn't have any problem but I understand pilots. Is very dificult to organize a f3b contest in Spain, there's no aeromodelling clubs with enough infrastructure. Grupo Halcon Club made this year the 33th edition of this contest. Congratulations guys! But I think in this kind of event you have to controll 100% some things like radio frecuencies. We practice a very expensive hobby/sport (at least for me) and when I pay a inscription for a contest I think that I transfer control frecuencies and a lot of more things to an Organization. By the way I'm sure there will be a 34^th edition, taking care of what happened this year.

In positive side... Spanish pilots have improved very hard in speed task. Daniel Portella got a new Spanish Speed Record: 16,16 seconds. And a lot of pilots flew under 18 seconds (not me) I made two 19 seconds speed flights. In one year I have improved about 5 seconds, so I'm very happy with it. Next events in Kassel and Emmen. Two contests with an amazing high level. Then will be time to enjoy and learn as much as possible.

Results

Photos

2nd BMFA F3B UK League. 29th April 2007

New report about F3B UK League by Chris Jubb:

"Another good turn out for the second league event. Only a couple of the regular B leaguers not flying due to lack of models.

It was good to see the new B league pilots here again. Mark Passingham and Ken Woodhouse taking advantage of Ken’s motor home to make a weekend out of it. By all accounts a little extra practice on Saturday and a lot of wine Saturday night .

Weather was quite kind to us, not quite as poor as the forecast predicted.

After the pilots briefing from Clive Needham the competion started at 10:00.

Our normal program was flown to this schedule. A then B Duration Round 1. A and B Distance Round 1 and 2

A and B Speed Round 1 and 2 . Ending with the A and B R2 duration.

This schedule allows Clive to populate all of the manning and timing requirements at Bases A and B with little shuffling of helpers.

Round 1 A league Duration.

Slot1. Steve Haley (Estrella) took top honours just out landing Jonathon Wells( PlusTask), in Round 2 a couple of crossed lines forced a re-fly for the group. Dave Worrall ( Crossfire x) took 1000 points from his attempt and elected not to re-fly. John Whittle took best advantage from the refly to score 1000.

Round 1 B league Duration.

John Stewart (Europhia) took best advantage and outflew the rest in slot 1 by 1min.10s.

Mark Southall battled against Clive Needham also flying a Tragi and Ken Woodhouse with his x tail Crossfire to emerge the victor for slot 2.

Rounds 1 & 2 A League Distance.

Round 1. Bill Haley took advantage of some great air to take top spot in S1 flying his new Furio.

Steve Haley and John Whittle tied with 24 laps in slot 2 with Dave Worrall taking the lead in S3 with 24 laps.

Round 2.

Slots 1,2&3 showed some excellent close flying in more consistent air. Simon Jackson, Dave Worall and Paul Carrington headed their slots to take top points. Paul was flying his modified Skorpion F3B with single strand wire turbulator just in front of the aileron surface.

Rounds 1 & 2 B League Distance.

Clive Needham flying his new Tragi and Mark Passingham won both round slots with newcomer Keith Whitton winning slot 3. Keith has come back to soaring after a long absence. He is currently flying a veteran Calypso Contest . Its great to see him doing well.

Round 1&2 A league Speed.

Steve Haley again recorded the fastest speed time of 16.63s with Paul Carrington pushing his Skorpion to record 16.76

Round 2 Speed. Again Steve reigned supreme with 15.56 with Simon Jackson the closest to him with 17.16.

Round 1&2 B league Speed.

Round 1 Mark Southall flew superbly to record 19.16 using his Tragi a clear 2 seconds faster than the rest of the field.

Unfortunately Ken Woodhouse launched his Crossfire into the ground after a mix up resulting in his model not being switched on. He did however change to his backup model (Arris) for round 2. Mark Passingham won the second round with a great run of 19.91.

Round 2 A League Duration. Slot 1 saw poor conditions and Bill Haley managed to overcome the rest but only recording a 4min47s flight.

Slot 2 Simon Jackson managed take advantage of the better conditions to squeeze home with 10.01 and maximum landing bonus.

Round 2 B League Duration.

By the time the B league final duration was held the quality of the air had improved and Ken Woodhouse showed that his Arris could take advantage of the available good air to record a win in slot 1. Slot 2 was just taken by John Stewart with Mark Passingham only just 1 second away.

These two flyers have only 4.3 points separating them from 1^st and 2^nd in the league. It promises to be a closely fought season.

Next League event is:- League 3 on SATURDAY 19^th May. Venue Retford Wetlands. Start 10:00 prompt."

Photos
Results

T-Shirt Design

I'm working in F3B at Home t-shirt with the help of my sister (a futer designer), these are the first ideas. What do you think?

Front Option 1

Front Option 2

Back Option 1

UK F3B League 2 Venue, Wetlands. 29th April 2007

Results of second contest of UK League have been published in Barcs sie. The winner of A League was Steve Halley with a Estrella JD... JD? Results here. Leader Board here.

Contest 2 of the 2007 North Island F3B Series

AucklandSoar hosted the second contest of 2007 North Island F3B Series at Matamata. You can see full results in Chris Kaiser site. The winner was Chris Kaiser with a Ellipse 2V.

1 Chris Kaiser Ellipse 2V 11782.7
2 David James Big Sting 11619.9
3 Les Stockley Crossfire 11594.0
4 Rhys James Ellipse 3C 11421.7
5 Rod Hale Crossfire 10413.8
6 John Dolphin Eraser 9789.5
7 Merv Malcomson Frazer 9175.9
8 Sharn Davies Eraser 7861.6
9 Richard Thompson Europhia 5502.6

A League and B League.after two contests, here.

F3B World Champs Field

Now we have in f3b-wm.ch the site plan, I remembered some years ago there was a Eurotour Contest in Emmen Airfield. In modellfluggeil.ch there's a lot of photos so you can take an idea about how looks the field.

Ceres... New Ceres... Big Ceres!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jiri Baudis is developing very fast his Ceres, SoaringUSA.com is announcing the last version of this plane: Big Ceres, now with cross tail. Sourced from SoaringUSA.com:

"The New Big Ceres F3B is in... 139 in. of beauty.. 1128 sq. in. And we are also stocking the E version! This plane is made to go fast, and the fit and finish are A quality! Our friends at Baudis model continue to impress us with their workmanship, and engineering abilities! Good job Jiri!
The Ceres F3B/F 3M is close behind, and should be arriving in our shop soon. There has already been a couple appearances in Europe, look for the first wins to come very soon!"

Daryl Perkins website

Daryl Perkins has a personal website. It's still under construction and we just can see a photo of Schizo (his new project).

F3B Spanish Championship 2007

Last weekend I was in F3B Spanish Championship 2007. F3B at Home Team (Sergi Subias, Fernando Valls and Sergi Valls) had to defend his trophy of year 2006... Impossible Mission. Every year there's fewer pilots. Like last contest in Palencia I was very well in one task, speed, I improve my personal score two times. Now my best speed is 19,50 seconds. Last best speed was 20,90... No comments, I know what you think. I got 14th place from 17 pilots and 4th place from 6 teams. I'm a little upset with my results but I know my "restricitions”, now I'm faster than ever, I got the 4 best average speed. It's a pitty this contest was not a Speed Cup :-P

Amazing perfomance of Portella Team, they won the Team trophy. All of them flew Walter Reist's planes. New Age and also Warp worked very good. Dani got his third National Championship and he is going to win more, I'm sure... Javier and Alberto has improved a lot his flight features since they are flying with Warp. Sometimes the plane improves the pilot.

Jesus and Ruben Merinos (2^nd & 3^rd) stroke again with his brand new Crossfire . I think their performance have stood up because they have a very good third member in the team: Miguel Casares, one of the best pilots in the little history of spanish f3b, After a rest of some years he has came back

Nunca Mais Team had the absence of the youngest pilot in Spain, Adrian Rodriguez. Alvaro went on with Furio and Jose Manuel Quintas has new planes this season: Ceres and Trinity, most of contest was flying Ceres. I think one week ago Quintas had a little crash with his Crossfire and he take the adventage to test his new planes. I think Ceres is a very interesting option with a lighter version.

Iñaki Elizondo, one of the strongest pilots got the 8^th position, this time flew with the Aris that won La Muela F3F International Contest. He is waiting for Radical but it doesn't arrive. So this time had to fly in not optimum conditions.

This time we had a new pilot, Marcos Martinez. He was attended by Carles Aymat and Andoni Gorriñobeaskoa. Marcos made nice photo's that you can see in his site. Friday afternnon made his first launches with his Tempus and next day began his first f3b competition. Very good Marcos!

And what about the F3B at Home Team...? Well, Sergi Subias flew very good, we had two mistakes in his flights: we lost task time in one of the distances and we made a 0 in last speed (we wait too much for launching, we made three launches and we spend working time before finish the task). Anyway he was fourth, and probably he would be 3rd if he had made the last speed :-( Our surprise was when the organization published for first time the individual results where Sergi Subias was 1st classified and Daniel Portella 2nd. Finally the results were corrected and the winner was Dani. My father had a lot of problems all weekend long. Friday evening decided to fly with Nyx Furio. He had been long time without flying Furio and that was a big handicap. Persoanlly it has been a bad contest but at least I have improved a lot in speed task, Madrid will be a new chance. And also Kassel and Emmen!!!!! I will fly in world cup, so I have to work very hard!!!!!!

Photos made by Marcos Martinez
Photos made by Sergi Subias & Sergi Valls
Individual results
Team Results

New video from Kirchheim Open

There's a new video about Kircheim open in f3b.de, 40 megas.

Kirchheim

Second Eurotour contest of this season was in Kirchheim. A three days competition with a lot of pilots. Podium with tree of most famous pilots of f3b world: 1st Denis Duchesne with Caracho X, 2ndReinhard Liese with Estrella DP (what about Diavolo? Oh oh oh...) and 3rd Andreas Böhlen withSupersonic-R. You can see results here, photos here and here. In RC-Network.de are posted two videos of speed task in youtoube.com, video1 & video2

F3B Danish Championship 2007

I have recived a report about F3B Danish Championship 2007 made by Egil Roland, also you can see some photos here.

Danish ”international” championship 2007 F3B was held 14th and 15th of april. Pilots from Denmark, Norway, Germany and Estland attended this event. 4 rounds was flown in nice weather.

Results

Michael Munk (DEN) 11371
Jan Hansen (DEN) 11281
Søren Krogh (DEN) 11217
Benjamin Rodax (GER) 11051
Jesper Jensen (DEN) 10945
Erik Morgan (NOR) 10872
Søren Helstedt (DEN) 10529
Thomas Dargewitz (GER) 10442
Egil Roland (NOR) 10156
Henrik Nielsen (DEN) 9298
Keld Jensen (DEN) 8390
Regnar Petersen (DEN) 8303
Meelis Tikk (EST) 8133
Achim Wustrau (GER) 7896
Helge Borchert (GER) 6221
Uffe Markussen (DEN) 5470

Greatings from Norway

Salzburg is in another planet, isn't it?

After check speed times of 13 Salzburger Wanderpokalfliegen F3B 2007 I want to belive them... but I can't. F3B guys seems to be very strong. 13, 14 and 15 are numbers that looks bad distances in my country. Not speed times!!!!!! :-P Waiting for photos... :-(

Sunday before F3B Nats

Today was the last day we fly before f3b nats. Alberto brought hes brand new Warp. The others with our planes: Dani- Newie, Sergi Subias - Crossi V and X, my father - Crossi V, Javier - Warp and me - Newie. Because the rain we fly less than we want, but I think homework are made. Now the competition will say me which is my level :-P Some photos here. I hope everything will be ok next weekend.

Bulletin # 2 16th FAI WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2007

Bulletin number 2 is published :-D Some interesting things:

"The following nations have placed preliminary entries (some of them not stating the names of pilots and helpers so far):
ARG, AUS, AUT, BEL, CZE, DEN, ESP, FIN, FRA, GBR, ITA, JAP, LIE, GER, NED, NOR, NZ,
POL, RSA, RUS, SUI, USA.
Participation of a Swedish team is not confirmed yet."

"In order to relieve organization and helpers we aim to change the winch position of the teams only once, namely on the Wednesday evening."

"Every day a warm meal will be prepared for lunch. Payment of CHF 16 (EUR 10) can be made at the cash desk. There will also be available sausages, sandwiches, chips, cookies etc."

Report from UK F3B League 1 Venue. Upton on Severn. 1st April 2007

My friend Chris Jubb Has sent us a report of the first contest of UK League 2007:

In a departure from the norm of the last couple of seasons, league 1 was held at Fish Meadow in Upton.
A few worries for Clive Needham (CD) during the week leading up to the competition due to the field being flooded but on arrival the field had drained and was in good condition. A great entry was recorded with five new B league pilots entering.
Mark Southall, Ken Woodhouse and Mark Passingham taking up F3B as well as F3F. John Stewart returning after a few years absence and Keith Whitton being encouraged by Bob Dickinson to take part.

The day turned out quite breezy but with a fair amount of sunshine.

Round one, A league duration started at 10:00.

Group one was topped by Norman Quirk with his Europhia with Paul Carrington (Skorpion) just inching out John Whittle (Samsara MkII O/D) in group two.

Round 1 B league duration followed

Ken Woodhouse demonstrating that he does not need a slope to keep aloft and just held of Mark Passingham who overflew by 11 seconds, both flying Crossfires. John Stewart (Europhia) took top points in group 2.

Round 1 A league distance

Group 1 was lead by Norman Quirk with 21 legs.
Group 2 was very closely fought with all pilots recording 18 legs.

Round 2

Norman again showed the way, to complete 19 legs.

Rounds 1 and 2 B league distance

Nigel Witchalls , Mark Southall, Ken Woodhouse and John Stewart took top points although Nigel damaged his Cobra on the final turn forcing him to retire.
Steve Hoppe managing to catch a wingtip in round 1 on his final turn, result broken fuz and wing.

A league speed.

Task C was started with quite blustery conditions.
Round 1. Paul Carrington completed the coarse in 17.74 with Steve Haley trailing with 18.85.
Round 2 saw Steve pull out the stops with a 15.02 with Paul trailing at 16.52.

B league speed

Round 1 saw John Stewart with the fastest time 26.78. Ken Woodhouse was awarded 0 for cutting the safety line. Chris Jubb lost control of his cobra prior to entering the course. B league speed was now getting low on competitors.
Round 2. With only 5 out of the 10 pilots now competing Ken Woodhouse flew a very smooth course to record 22.81 with Mark Southall close behind with 23.56.

Final A Duration

By this time the weather had deteriorated somewhat and time was getting on.
Paul Carrington retired after a very loud flutter during the launch de-laminating the flap surface. Paul was trying to wring the last bit of launch height from his prototype Skorpion.
Steve Haley and Johnathon Wells won their respective groups demonstrating some fine flying and landing skills considering the weather.
B league final duration followed with John Stewart taking top honours but only managing 2.55 Wind was by now quite strong.

A League

1.Steve Haley
2.Norman Quirk
3.John Whittle
4.Paul Carrington
5.Johnathon Wells
6.Bill Haley
7.Mike Challinor
8.Bob Dickinson

B League

1.John Stewart
2.Mark Passingham
3.Ken Woodhouse
4.Mark Southall
5.Keith Whitton
6.Alan Jones
7.Clive Needham
8.Nigel Whitchalls
9.Chris Jubb
10.Steve Hoppe

Photos here.

Mike Shellim's Blog

I have found soaring in www Mike Shellim's blog, so I have added in links section

Photo

This photo has been taken in my field club. A lot of speed practice. I still have a lot of work, but I'm sure I will ready for f3b nats.

Norwegian Team site

Egil Roland, TM of the norweigan Team, has announced me that they already have team site. The adress is: http://www.f3x.no/f3b/2007/index.htm Egil, I hope we will meet in Emmen and we'll exchange our t-shirt team. ;-)

F3B WC Teams

I have added a new link section: F3B WC Teams. Now a days I have found three team sites: USA, Switzerland and Holland. If you know a link can you e-mail me? Thank you.

Joe Luxford from Perth with a Spanish plane!!!

Joe from Perth has written to me. He has a Tempus, a Spanish f3f/f3b plane made by Iñaki Elizondo and flies in nice slopes :-P

Sergi,

I was just looking through the photos on your photo hosting
web site atPBase.  Very nice!

I have a Tempus and fly F3F here in Western Australia. 
I noticed some Tempus photos on your web site.  Can you
tell me if the Tempus is still competitive in F3F in Spain?

I have appended a couple of photos from our F3F in WA. 
We make the 4 hour drive from Perth to Albany each March
for our annual F3F championship and then the 7 hour drive
to Esperance in October each year to fly F3F.

Regards,

Joe Luxford
Perth
Western Australia

Joe Luxford with Tempus at Albany 2005

Albany F3F pilots on second day of 2005 comp

Western end of Esperance soaring site

Tool Video

F3X-modell.de is promoting his new model: Tool. In his site you can see photos and video.

Diavolo video

If you want to know deeper Heiner Fischer's plane, you can see this video from f3bfrance blog.

I prefer f3b than bikes, no doubt

Until last minute we haven't decided to go to the field. All weahter forcast said us Sunday would be a rainy day. In Barcelona (99 km to the field) was very calm and Sunny, Jerez Gran Prix was on TV, but finally we decide to pack and go to the adventure. We had to fly my father's Crossi... and we did it. No rain and good wind. A nice and quiet day. Some photos here.

2007 Season Speed/Practice Meeting. Venue Retford.

2007 Season Speed/Practice Meeting.
18th March 2007.
Venue Retford.

Quite a bright but breezy start to the morning, and plenty of new models on show. Steve Haley with his new Estrella (JD?) I think that is right. Paul Carrington sporting his new Skorpion (F3B). Bill Haley with a Crossfire (x tail). All the above pilots had not flown their models prior to this outing so had to setup and trim during the day.Dave Worrall had both the V and X tail Crossfires out. He is still in debate as to which one he prefers.

As mentioned above most pilots had not flown their models prior to this event so most of the morning was taken up with trimming etc. It was apparent however that Steve Haley combined with his new Estrella is going to be the one to beat again this season with some phenomenal launches seen.

The new F3B Skorpion flown by Paul Carrington also looks to be a close contender with really good launch potential and looking very crisp in the speed task with Paul really shaving the coarse. On this occasion the Skorpion looked most at home around the pylons. Will it be as good at thermaling or distance, we will have to wait and see. Clive Needham (CD) demonstrated our new coarse set up procedure with the laser distance measuring equipment.

Results.

Steve Haley took top honours recording a 15.29

1. Steve Haley 17,34 / 18,66 / 15,74 / 15,97 / 18,96 / 15,29
2. Paul Carrington 15,75 / 0,00 / 18,62 / 17,34 / 16.56 / 15,58
3. Dave Worrall 19,74 / 17,82 / 17,97 / 18,30 / 16,44 / 16,76
4. John Whittle 20,58 / 18,11 / 20,07 / 17,87 / 17,21 / 17,36
5. Norman Quirk 24,78 / 19,71 / 19,61 / 21,03 / 18,41 / 18,49
6. Bill Haley 21,27 / 21,62 / 33,37 / 23,99 / 24,31 / 20,37
7. Clive Needham 0,00 / 0,00 / 18,62 / 0,00 / 0,00 / 0,00

Photos here.


by Chris Jubb (Thanks a lot Chris I hope we'll post more uk f3b info)

They are like kids with new shoes...

Today a lot of people has released new planes: Carles -Aris, Dani - New Age "Herex", Javier - Nyx Furio and Sergi Subias - Crossi V. My father was not able to finish his Crossi V. We'll see it next week :-) Another friend that has new toy is Laurent Gauthié (FRA). He has a Diavolo!!!!! First impressions in f3bfrance blog.

That is a good after-sales service

A new f3b sunny and windy Sunday with my father Daniel and Walter (as helper). We are very lucky so not everybody can train with the builder of your planes Very good feelings with New Age, very fast and very easy to flight in duration. I have "some" problems with launches (I'm a litle bit blockhead) so I need more time to set the launch. Daniel has brought his brand "new" New Age (black and red stripes). Daniel is the test pilot. His first New Age was a version for DS (double carbon in wings) and his new one has wings made with Herex. Next weekend more flights... I hope! Very few photo's here.

F3F National Open Santa Coloma

This weekend I have been in a National F3F Open in Santa Coloma, near Barcelona, so this time I didn't have to travel. I "achieved" 13 position (we were 13 pilots :-P). We made 10 rounds on Saturday and 5 on Sunday. In my first flight this morning I have crashed my V-Ultra with the wiring of a pylon. Good things: Serg Subias (team mate of F3B at Home Team) was third. The winner was Iñaki Elizondo and second, Daniel Portella (he always comes back with a prize). Photos here.

First contest of North Island F3B Series

Kiwi's has begun their season with first contest of North Island F3B Series. You can read a report made by Dave Larsen in Chris Kaiser site with full results.

I have a genuine F3B machine :-)

Today I have made my firsts flights with New Age. Very good feelings, actually I had never had so good feelings with a plane its first day. But before go to field club I have been in Walter's house with my father and Sergi Subias (3rd pilot F3B at Home Team) to pick up my father's New Age. We met in the field with Daniel and Javier Portella. We were late. Sorry Dani and Javier :-P When we have almost set everything it started to rain, so we seized the opportunity to have lunch (not launch) and take some photos of our New Ages. Rain finished and was time for flights until six o'clock. Next Sunday more flights :-D Some photos here.

Coll de Lilla 2007

Today has begun a F3F Catalonian League. First contest has been in Coll de Lilla (one of the the most feared slopes of the league because the landing) Four rounds made. We didn't have more time for f3f because Calçots were waiting us for lunch. I go on with my slow progress. I have new personal record 48.XX seconds :-P Winner was Javier Portella wih a X-Race. This time dad bit his two sons. Second was Carles Aymat with a New Age and third my team mate Sergi Subias with Crossi. Next contest will be a f3f national Open in Santa Coloma (near Barcelona) I know this blog is a f3b one, but who cares if I talk a little bit about f3f? Next Sunday first flights with my New Age :-O Photos here.

A plane came from Hell: Diavolo

After a lot of years of comercial and sport success, Heiner Fischer is going to produce his new model: Diavolo. For this new project he has joint good partners to develop this nice plane: Team “KiKa”, Ulrich Trautwein, Carbon Vertrieb, ... Its price will be the most expensive among top planes. Look here more info about technical data and prices (from f3bfrance blog)

So unlucky... and lucky at the same time

A new Sunday on the field. Javier and Daniel were not able to meet with us so we were flying with Alberto and Carles. Friday evening I changed the wiring of my Caracho aileron servo, so I thought the problem was fix. I was completely wrong, today the servo go on with shaking. Last test was to switch on an other JR radio like mine and servo was quiet and working OK. Next step will be to send my JR to Technical Department of JR in Europe :-( I'm lucky because my father had ordered a JR and some servos for my New Age but is stopped in Barcelona airport duty. So now I don't have radio and fuse servos for my New Age!!!!! Next week I have the first f3f contest of the year so I have two weeks to resolve my radio/servos problems. It's not a good beginning. At least my father let me make some flights with his Furio. Today I seized the opportunity to bring my NA to our field club (as soon he gets the felling with his trainig field easier to trim him :-P) and to make some photos with my father as model.

Speed Cup In Japan

Read in Mr. Miyagawa blog, today our friends from Japan (Hi Mr. Kurita!!!) has flown a speed-cup with a total of six rounds. Here you can read a tranlation of Mr. Miyagawa report made by google. and here there's the results where you can see that Crossfire is the plane of most of pilots. Good business Mr. Eder!!!!!

F3B Speed Clinic held at BERG

First contests of the year. Our friends from RSA (Goodrum & Co.) have made a f3b clinic with this results.

My first flight with a New Age

Today I went to the field club without my father. I'm very lucky to have friends like Carles who picked up to me in the train station (one more time). Today had to be a transition day waiting for set up my New Age, and it really was a transition day. When we arrived to the field I realized I have forgot my Caracho's Wing joiner :-( So today I spent my time to help Carles, Dani and Javier with their flights. Dani is a very good friend and although he flights with elevator in left hand (I use right hand with elevator) he has borrowed me his New Age. I have made two flights (no launches) with very good feelings, I hope my New Age will works as good as Dani's one. He has told me some secrets :-P like CG and tow hook position, so it will be easier to trim my weapon for this season. Some photos here.

New Age is at Home

New Age is at Home :-) Looking for my dad's one I have gone to Walter's house to pick up mine. I came with Dani and Carles to see and chat with Walter. Tomorrow we'll meet again in our field club to go on with our preparation for next contests.

First traininig of the year photos

I have uploaded some photos fom Sunday to my Image Gallery. Look here.

First traininig of the year

First traininig of the year. Carles, Alberto, Javier, Daniel, my father and me. We met at 10.30 but we arrive at eleven :-P Some chat while Javier was flying his heli and Alberto his new hand launch. We start to fly a little bit late. Wind direction was not clear and we're pretty lazy. Finally we set the winches in one of the corners of the field. While my New Age arrives I go on flying with my Caracho. Signal reception problems are not arranged. Servo and receiver were changed and my right aileron is still shaking when the radio is closed to plane. Next step, change the wiring. If everything is ok next weekend I will go to Walter's home to pick up my NA, and maybe I will also fly on Sunday.
One year ago I began to work with F3B at Home blog and a lot of things has happend, good things like the Europhia flying, my good performance in f3b nats and Palencia contest, the trip to Italy and my new speed record, and bad things like my very bad performance in Madrid contest and Europhia crashing. Bad and good experience will help me to be a better f3b pilot (I hope to have more good ones like bad ones :-P )

New toy for my father

Although Santa's use to go to our homes in 24th in the night to give our presents this time my father's gift was given with delayed. In the photo you can see the envelope, but what is within the box? See here and hate me!!!!!

A new aeromodelling discipline: F3B-X

This season are going to be offered a lot of new planes. Most of them are from Germany. Planes like Diabolo, Supersonic-R and Radical are going to lead a sort of plane designed and made by most prestigious pilots and builders (Marcus Becker, Martin Weberschock, Martin and Andreas Herrig, Heiner Fischer,..) with amazing features and also amazing prices. 1500, 1600 and 1700 euros are figures very common in priceslists. For this season my choice is for New Age "von Walter Reist". A HQ/W profil and Masterpice fuse. Very, very cheap comparing with german planes (about 900 €). Last year I had just one Europhia, this year I want to have two units of the same model and fly as much as posible before the season begins. A new discipline is born: F3B-eXpensive!!!!!

F3B = Teamwork

In this video of f3b french nats you realize how important is to have a good team in f3b. A so tactical discipline needs good coordination and people with good legs ;-) See the video from f3bfrance.com

Le Blog du F3B en France rules!

Some days ago I post a comment talking about new f3b french blog. I use to check this site and works very good, a lot of info and is updated very often. Remembre the link.

Happy New year guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On 31st we meet my father and me with Portella family (Javier, Alberto and Dani) to make last flights of the year. I was not able to fly because a tail servo was ko so I spend my time to make some launches and photos. Lot of termal and quiet flights (no training stress),pleasant chat with everybody in the meal and planning next season. We are tempted to go to a lot of contests in and out of Spain. In next weeks we fix our f3b calendar. My New Age is very closed to be in my hands. Walter has came from his Christmas Hollidays so I hope to have my New Age very soon :-) It was not the best end of year but 2007 seems to be a amazing year. Photos here.