Montauban contest

Told by my team mates, Montauban contest was nice (people, place and flights) :-) Results here (source f3news.fr and Laurent Gauthie) and photos here (source f3news.fr and Fabrice Estivals)

Montauban

Very sad weekend personally, while I was driving to Montauban I received a very bad new... my very very loved grandmother have just dead the same morning so I had to cancel my travel and let my team mates (Sergi Subies and Dani and Alberto Portella) in a resting zone in the motorway to come back home :-(

Gone to Montauban

Gone to Montauban for a F3B Contest... see you on Sunday!!!!!

F3B Ironworks Trophy 2010 Photo Gallery

http://picasaweb.google.fi/heikkiastikainen/Sm1#

French Selection Contest in Colmar

Podium (source f3news.fr):

1st Fabrice ESTIVAL 8883.55
2nd Christian PINOTEAU 8677.25
3rd Sylvain COULOMB 8583.38

Sonnenwendpokal Podium

1st Böhlen, Andreas
2nd Flixeder, Bernhard
3rd Bachler, Herbert

Nice Video F3B French Contest

F3B from Roulettes on Vimeo.

Round 3 North Island F3B in Hawkes Bay

Joe Wurts 9000.00
Chris Kaiser 8241.40
Peter Williams 7850.90
Aneil Patel 7767.30
Craig Dawson 7268.00
David James 7246.80
Kevin Botherwa 7176.60
Ken Duffell 7068.50
Ted Bealing 6318.20

More information in few days in http://www.f3b.org.nz/North_Island_F3B_Series/2010.html

New link added

Nice f3b Austrian site.

Dörnberg Pokal 2010 Results

1st Duchesne, Denis
2nd Herrig, Martin
3rd Seyfang, Michael
4th Trautwein, Ulrich
5th Dylla, Thomas

Results 3rd Contest UK League

Steve Haley has won a new contest in UK League... Full results here (you have to join F3BUK Yahoo group).

Trainig for Montauban

Saturday afternoon met with Dani, Javier, Alberto and Sergi Subies to make some flights. It was last day we flew together before Montauban contest. I focus the training making distance task with 400 grms. of ballast. Alberto flew his Altus, Sergi S. was fixing servos and making some flights later and Dani flew is Ceres Lift with new settings that looks work fine. I try to make one more trainig before Montauban next Friday.

New link added

We have a new f3x domain: f3x.biz ;-)

Snowing in Salzburg

Everything OK

I have spent some time for resting, last wekend I was in the field but "extrem wind conditions" made me decide to cancel my training, anyway I made one launch logged with 300 meters of altitude!!!!!!! Yes!!!!! My best launch I ever made :-) I have the photo, I hope to post it in few days.... :-) Calendar has been updated. Next target is Montauban Contest the 27th.

Danish National Championship

Spline designers (John Rasmussen and Jan Hansen) made 2nd and 3rd in Danish National F3B Camps. Photos and Results.

Orebro Open 2010

Joakim Ståhl has won Orebro Open. Results here. I hope modellsegelflyg.se will post photos in few days.

Round 2 NZ League at Matamata‏

Seems NZ has made a good hire with Joe Wurst :-P... Read in nzrcsg@yahoogroups.com:

Hi all,

A great weekend was had a Matamata flying round 2 of the F3B series.

A slow day on Saturday getting thru 2 rounds was finished off relaxing at the field at the end of the day.
Fasted speed time for Saturday was a 15.52sec Round 2 run from Joe. David & Richard did personal best times of 18.76 & 18.37 respectively in Round 1.

Sunday saw a contrast from Saturday with light and variable winds. Another 2 rounds flown and finishing around 2:30 giving us good time to pack up and relax before heading off home.

Joe Wurts - 11997 pointsDave Larsen - 11155 pointsChris Kaiser - 10982 pointsDavid James - 10520 pointsKen Duffell - 10279 pointsKevin Botherway - 10189 pointsAneil Patel - 10092 pointsRichard Thompson - 8085 pointsRhys James - 3362 points

Next round June 19 & 20 in Hawkes Bay.
Thanks guys for a great weekend.

Regards
David James

F3B French Trials

French pilots met in Buzançais on 17-18 April to make a new contest of selection for F3B WC Team. Lot of things to see: Results, Photos and Videos :-D

UK League

Chris Jubb has sent us results of F3B League 1st Contest. Steve Halley still rules in UK... Results in that link.

PS: Thank you very much Chris

Kirchheim 2010 Photos

Photos added. Blog will be updated as soon as possilble ;-)

16th Salzburger Wanderpokalfliegen

Eurotour has started that morning. You can see the starters list here.

Las trainings before Kirchheim

Tomorrow will make a speed training with signal system and everything so yesterday I went to Pla de Vent to adjust my Speed and Start 2 settings in my Altus with good results. Tomorrow will be my last flights with Altus because I have to spend next weekend to prepare my dad's Crossfire that will be my second Plane. Ups...!!!! And I received my order from EMC-Vega 1200 meters of orange 1.22 mm. Very cool!!!!!!!!!!

Trimming my Green Altus

I spend that weekend trimming my Altus. With the help of my old settings and Dani I think I will arrive to Kirchheim in good conditions. Although I have a lot of work to do in two weeks :-O Nextr trainning will be Friday afternoon.

Some photos here.

Results of the Soaring Champs New Zealand

Sourced by nzmaa-news@yahoogroups.com

F3B RESULTS

1, Joe Wurts: 5997 pts
2, Chris Kaiser: 5670 pts
3, Kevin Botherway: 5585 pts
4, Andrew Stiver: 5164 pts
5, Richard Thompson: 5079 pts
6, Dave Larsen: 4899 pts
7, John Shaw: 4799 pts
8, David James: 4648 pts
9, Ted Bealing: 4159 pts
10, Aneil Patel: 3898 pts
11, Ken Duffell: 3407 pts
12, Rob Whalley: 3022 pts

Green Altus RDS ready for Sunday

My new Altus is ready for Sunday. I'm very surprised with its weight 2.070 grms :-O

Carles is right...

No sales, I mean "Next Purchases": Altus RDS and MC24


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What I do?

Yesterday In my second launch I lost the control of my Altus. It's not restorable for F3B. I fear the problem is the radio...What I do? I can use my dad's FC28 but I'm not used to it... This week I have to fly my green Altus and Crossfire to fly in Kirchheim. All work made these months lost in two seconds... No photos today...

Next sales: Altus RDS and MC24 :-P


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French F3B Trials

Trials for F3B Team Selection has begun las weekend in Avanton. Patrick Medard won first contest. Some photos and results has been posted in f3news.fr

Winch lines

That afternoon I've been checking my winch lines. I have enough sort of diameters but anyway I'll order 1.22 Megaline to EMC-Vega


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Altus under Construction

This weekend I didn't let fly
my father... he has lot of work with my Altus. Don't think bad... we're a Team ;-)


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Devices for Altus have arrived from Höllein

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Altus under construction

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Crossfire 2 Video

Milang 2010

Last weekend Aussies began F3B Season in Milang. Very good speed scores :-O Photos and results available.

For 3 meters...

We're in Pla de Vent field, lot of wind so I've put 1 kilo of ballast to my Red Altus. Today I've made my best launch... 297 meters!!!!!! I know it's a pour "score"... Anyway I'm happy!!!!!


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Two Altus better than one

Yesterday I drove to Pla de Vent to make some flights and pick up my brand new green stripped coloured nosecone Altus... Wow...everyone is made betther than previous. Tat version will work with RDS and will be my second plane in Kirchheim... or not... :-P Good work Walter!!! Some photos here.

IV Open Internacional Catalunya F3F Eurotour 2010

Last weekend had F3F Eurotour in Santa Coloma Slope. We met thirty pilots, one of the best was with us, Alexis Marechal, he couldn't win but he made amazing flights, very tight turns in base A & B, he made his Alliaj HM never lost energy in the turns... Alexis is the perfect F3F Pilot.
I think I made my best performance in f3f competition. I was third in one of the rounds :-D In last round I flew with full ballast (980 grms) and I learnt that more ballast don't make you faster allways :-P More photos, results and reports in f3b.es and ikarusrc.com, mine are here.

But now is time to concentrate my efforts in Kirchheim :-O

We already have 2 Caracho

I went to Santa Coloma slope yesterday and today to make last flights before F3F Eurotour Contest Saturday was very windy so I could fly with lot of ballast but Sunday wind was very low so we have been flying very quiet and making lot of landings because wind was off very often. My father has flown his Caracho, so each other have one Caracho :-D ready to fly.

Some photos here.

Speed training

Javier, Dani and me have met in Pla de Vent to make some flights, we have had to wait for lower wind having a coffe in Brafim (village near the field). Today was time for speed training... we just have 6 weekends for training before Kirchheim...!!!!!!!!

My photos here.
Javier Portella photos here.

Coll de l'Illa Scores

A little bit upset with my perform in Coll de l'Illa. I hadto fly with my V-Ultra because a problem in Caracho's tail :-( Best of the contest my new personal score (52,19 seconds)

Results here.

News from Aer-O-Tec

I supose you have already read the mail, in case you don't here you have more information about Crossfire 2:


Hallo,

Finally our new F3B/F3F high-preformance glider CROSSFIRE-2 is ready !

It comes with 2-piece wing and new Max Steidle blend of airfoils ( 7,5-7,9% thickness), 2-piece V-tail and preperation for RDS-linkage in wings. Small parts , cabels, connectors,and wing bags are also included. Ballast system in wings and optional in fuselage.

Introducing offer for F3B version (1+1/2 of 93g carbon layer ) is 1380.- Euro + shipping.
More pictures, details and information will be available soon on our homepage:
www.aer-o-tec.de

best regards...Stefan Eder / Aer-O-Tec , Eder+Steidle GbRKönigsbergerstr.4 , D-91567 HerriedenTel: 0049-9825-1633 , Mobil: 0049-160-96052480www.Aer-O-Tec.deF3B/F3F/F3J/Elektroflug/Großsegler/Bauservice/Zubehör/RC-Technik.NEU: Weatronic, Emcotec, Kontronik, Kokam, Reisenauer !

Crossfire 2

We have had to wait a long... I think Steffan is very busy with his F3J toys... :-P First news about Crossfire 2. Personally I prefer older color schemes. See here.

No contest

We had planned F3F Winter Club Contest today, but pour conditions didn't let fly us. Luckily I was in the slope before the call so I clould fly a little bit :-P Next Sunday begins Catalonian F3F League in Coll de l'Illa, a really Extrem Conditions Slope :-O

Some photos here.

RDS Frames have arrived

Today I have picked up the RDS frames from Jiri Baudis, I hope to set them in Altus wings in two weeks :-P Sets are ok but I have to brush wood frames.

Bad Day

Everything went right until Carles crash... I'm sorry with him... Walter visited us and make a flight with Dani's Ceres. Alberto's Altus is finished. Every Altus made is better than previous one. Mine will be a F3B Beast!!!!!!!! I have RDS frames from Jiri Baudis in the Post Office, I will bring them tomorrow.

Every 5 minutes I'm clicking F5 in my Explorer... Today begins registration for Kirchheim Eurotour Contest :-P

Some photos here.

Shootering in the slope

An other day in the slope with my Caracho, today Carles Aymat has made his first flights with Shooter. In two weeks begins F3F season with F3F Club Contest. I'll see if I'm improving my performance in the slope. At midday wind stopped so we packed and came back at home.

Some photos here.

Goodbye Vicens...

My very good friend, Vicens Colomina, has letft us after a short disease... :-( Thank you very much for such good moments in Gallecs field and thank you for help my father and me to make our own winch. It works like a new Hollenbeck one after lot of years ;-)

We'll miss you a lot.

Nearly I don't fly!!!

Today has begun with bad news... I've forgotten screw that hols T-Tail of my Altus!!! I've had to get used to the idea when Dani and Javier have helped me to find an alternative screw that let me fly at least some flights. And they did it!!!! Thank you very much guys!!!!

Again, the wind has changed of direction when we've finished to set the winches (I'm right with you Dani, next time we'll go to the south side of the field) so our launches has been very pour. We have been practicing duration flights, Dani with Radical, Javier with Warp, my father with Crossi and me with the best plane of the world ;-)

Dani showed us his new Altus (RDS version), now Walter is making Alberto's one and then will make mine with RDS system too.

Some photos here.

Preparing F3F Season

Preparing F3F Season

Yesterday I began with my father to prepare F3F Season. In 2010 we are going to fly our Carachos 3.1, fantastic model for F3F discipline.

First contest will be on 14th February (not the best date for our wifes :-P) in "Coll de l'Illa", the most extrem slope you can imagine. We fly all rounds in a row so you just need to land one time.

My father wore Kevin Newton style glasses but I didn't feel any improve in his pilot skill.

I will post some photos later.



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Masterpiece in Santa Coloma Slope

Today I have been in Santa Coloma Slope to fly my Caracho and prepare F3F season. Very cold weather and good wind, I used to fly rounds until I couldn't feel my hands :-P Later arrived Emilio Escobar with his sons, Hugo and Lucas. Hugo has been making very good flights with Masterpiece. Tomorrow more flights, with my father.

Some photos here.

Walter Reist Seminar

It has been raining all day long, so we couldn't fly today :-( We have driven to Walter Reist workshop to learn how he makes our Altus,

Today has been working with Altus fuse for Dani. When he has finished we have been checking RDS system. The servo holes are small so it's a little bit dificult to install the servos (Next wings will have bigger holes)

Next plane will be for Alberto and then will come mine!!!!!!!!!
If you are looking for a nice, with good f3b skills & cheap plane (and you don't want to wait one year to get it) your choice is Altus ;-)

Photos here.

Japanese in action in Ivancice

Good video of the Japanese Team in action in distance tasks in Ivancice.

First flights of 2010

Lot of people today in the field club. 6 winches, lot of pilots and the best Helper we can enjoy, Walter Reist. Walter brought brand new Altus wings for Dani, every time Altus are better finished so our team mate, Sergi Subies, has ordered also one :-)

Two Altus in thermal

A new day with bad soft wind, so we have spent all day long to imporve our launches with this sort of conditions. Because I'n in holliday I have met with Dani to fly again on Tuesday and make a visit to Walter in his workshop. I hope to get my second altus in two-three weeks :-P More photos here.

New Year New Altus

Happy New Year Guyyyssss!!!!!!!! Some of you have recived presents from Santas like a Plane ... Mine will arrive in some weeks. Yesterday I ordered my second Altus :-) This time with RDS system and new color scheme:

· Fuse: white with green nose cone
· Top Wing: withe with green tips
· Bottom Wing: green with white centre strip
· TopTail: white with green tips
· Bottom Tail: white and green strips

Now my Arsenal will ready for 2 F3b Altus and 2 F3F Caracho 3.1 :-) That is good way to begin the Year...

New link added

I've added Italian site link.

Altus rules

We have made last flights of the year. Wind was softer than it used to be, so we have tried to improve our launches with better or worst results. Dani has modified the position of his Radical towhook with very good results. My father and Alberto need more time to get good settings. Personally my launches are better every day. Now is time to earn some money to order a new Altus ;-)

More photos here.

F3F Spanish Championship 2009 Second day

We already have F3F Championship!!!!! Tomas Eklund has been steadiest pilot. Second position was for Iñaki Elizondo, he has been all competition in top positions, but penalties have avoided to get Gold medal. And third... Dani Portella, I think he had very bad luck first day of competition, today has flown with some ballast in his Altus and got good scores. First six piots flew Freestylers excepting one Altus.

At mid morning I was in 8th position (after 3rd round) but my flights and final withdraws put me in 12th. I'm happy with my performance, my V-Ultra Plus is Ok and my landings were right :-)

With this contest also, F3F Catalonian League has ended (1st Carles Aymat, 2nd Luis Mejias & 3rd Daniel Portella)

Scores and Photos.

F3F Spanish Championship 2009 First day

First day of competition ended. All day long with tight conditions (see times and scores). We have made two and a half rounds. Tomorrow we'll start with the second half of third round. After meal wind stopped, so we had time for chat and take photos. First positions for Freestyler pilots and local pilots. I'm 10th, I have flown as well as I was able with very soft wind :-P

F3F Training - 2nd Day

Finally a good F3F morning with enough wind to fly with some ballast. This time I was with F3B at Home First Pilot, Sergi Subies and a future member of the Team, Hugo Escobar (with his father Emilio and his litlle brother Lucas). Sergi, Emilio and Hugo will participate also in F3F Champ. More photos here.

Official Entry list is already posted in Ikarus Club site.

F3F Training

Short training with two rounds of flights (wind didn't let fly mire), today we have met with Carles so when I was resting I made some photos of his Cyril. I hope to fly more and better on Tuesday :-P

Cyril in action flown by Carles Aymat

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F3F Spanish Championship

We have F3F Spanish Championship next weekend in Santa Coloma (near Barcelona). Ikarus Club is the organizer.

I would like to have better luck than other slopes events ;-) but weather hasn't helped me a lot every time I tried to fly in the slope :-(

Tomorrow and Tuesday (Free day in Spain) are last days to prepare the event.

Energija Making off

Good photo report about and Energija construction.

Sunday mornig went to Santa Coloma Slope to train for Spanih F3F Championship, just 20 minutes of good wind, at least better than last weekend that was completly calm :-P

More training for next weekend if weather is good with me. I have time to take a photo to my father before rain started. Nice landscape .

New videos added

Added F3B Danish Championship in 2008 :-P Video

Performance of the Evolution V-Tail model using the XFoil program.

Interesting study made by Jitom about Performance Evolution V-Tail.

Thank you for the info Michal

More Videos

More videos added:

French National Championship 2006
F3B speed task - 13.76 s by Peter HUBBERTS by Fabrice Estivals

Next Events section Updated

Added Milang F3B 2010 Event. Thank you Chris . I would like to be there but there's too many kilometers for me.

French National Championship 2009

Results, Images, Videos, ... about F3B French Championship in Association Modeliste Caudacienne site

Results UK F3B League

Chris Jubb has sent us results of last event f3b league and final results. Check here

Thanks Chris

Unofficial F3B Eurotour Schedule 2010

Seen in footime site an Unofficial F3B Eutotour Schedule for 2010.

F3B Dutch National Championship 2009

Individual Results:

1st Jeroen Smits
2nd Frans Vreugdenhil
3rdBen Ros

Team Results:

1st Freebird : Frans Vreugdenhil, Frits Donker Duyvis, Jeroen Smits
2nd WBLC : Ben Ros, Erik Heijne, Robert Hermans
3rd WLC 2 : Roel Beijers, Niels Meerdink, Nick Beijers

Check link.

New videos added

New F3B videos added:

2009 F3B Jyske Championship
2009 F3B Les Aigles de Moroges - Le Creusot
2009 F3B Trofeu Apsia
2009 F3B Polish Cup

Windy day

Nasty weather today... lot of broken lines and few flights. We decided to end the training in midmorning :-(

F3B in Peru is reborn

Good news from Sourh America, pepole from Peru is "f3b-ing" again after lot of time...

Speed Cup Pla de Vent 2009

Last Sunday had Speed Cup. We made 9 rounds with local pilots: Alberto, Javier & Daniel Portella, Carles Aymat, Fernando Valls and me. Wind was out most of the day, so my launches were awfull (Altus has been just flown twice with storng wind), so my marks were awfull too (bad launches, turn mistakes and flights without ballast :-P) Next time I will improve. Results and Photos

34th Oktoberfestpokal ended

1 Herrig, Martin 3000,00 2975,09 2895,81 875,45 9746,35
2 Herrig, Andreas 2914,23 2981,66 2905,17 888,69 9689,75
3 Liese, Reinhard 2943,66 2930,35 2906,96 861,58 9642,56

Results on-line Oktoberfest Pokal

We can follow results on-line in Modellbau Club München site. By the moment Martin Herrig is first with 3.000 points with these scores:

Duration: 9:58 seconds 100 points landing
Distance: 23 laps
Speed: 14,07 seconds

Altus ready for Speed Cup

Free day in Barcelona, I have gone to the field early in the morning with my father, we had met with Dani to prepare Speed Cup, after some flights with some ballast I don't have any doubt about which plane I will fly in the contest: Altus. Is the best plane I've never flew (Today was my second day with him), very easy to trim and launch, now is time to fly, fly and fly again.... So cute that rarest bugs want to be with him. Lot of breaking lines because windy conditions :-( Some photos here.

Finally my Altus

Wow....!!!!! Finally I have flown my Altus. Very happy with his skills :-) More flights next Thursday in the morning, I don't think I will not have enough time to fly him in Speed Cup but I'm tempted to do... :-P Is a very easy plane to launch and very easy to fly in any conditions. Now is time to fly, fly and fly again to exploit his potential.

Norweigan F3B National Championship

A new F3B National winner: Jørgen Busk. Report here.

Added new link

Added Bennjamin Storch and Martin Zarnack project site.

Czech F3B National Championship

Jan Stonavsky has won F3B National Championship. Congratulations!!!! Full results here.

Are you interested in Cyril?

Would you like to buy a Cyril? I have had one in my hands and looks nice, very strong and very light... 2.060 grms. !!!!!! Carles Aymat has his Cyril finished, now is time to fly!!!!!

We have to be prepared for next generation of planes. No doubt a new Radical will be announced in few time, Crossfire 2 is coming, Jiri Baudis is offering his new plane with no official name.

How long is "The 2.000 € plane"? By the moment Altus is my bet :-P I should buy a piggy-bank.

(Carles, thank you for the photo)

Setting up Altus

Yesterday I was at my parent's house to set the CG and deflections of my Altus. I have to change the battery pack for a smaller one to make it lighter. I will keep you informed!!! Thank you very much for your help Mike.

New Section

As you have seen I've updated Next Events section and added a new one: F3X Videos. Enjoy them!!!

New links added

I've Added Polish and Hungarian site links.

Altus Premier

After a very exciting week following wc by webcam (10 Points for Organizers), now is time to think in Munich,next Season and next WC (China?) Dani and Alberto made their first f3b flights with Altus (In one or two weeks mine will be ready). First impressions: Altus is an easy plane to fly and loves ballast.

They were working with launch settings (highest altituded was 281 meters, very good "score" in Spain) and making some speed flights with some ballast. Now is time to fly, fly and fly to get 110% of this amazing and original plane.

New links Added

Added F3B Team Swedish Blog for WC.

New link

I've added Tobias Reik Blog in "F3B in WWW"

F3B WC Videos

Belgium Team are posting videos in youtube, take a look in this link

Brno World Cup

It seems Herrig Brothers begin to impose their tyranny. Check Speed results

Aussie Team Blog

Aussies also have a good blog for F3B WC.

Altus assembly

I have made a visit my father this morining to check how works the assembly of my Altus, we hope Altus will be finished in two weeks :-)

La Seu 2009

Today we have gone to La Seu d'Urgell to enjoy 4th Serie of Catalonian F3F League. 6 Rounds made and 5 won by Gerardo Plaza. While I'm waiting Carles send me the results I've posted some photos. I have changed some settings in my V-Ultra and it seems work nice :-) I'm a pour f3f pilot improving...

New links Added

Hi everybody, I have been "googling" for F3B News and Links, my results are these:

Zoom Model
Skip Miller Models
T-Samu
RC-Sailplane
F3Builds.com
Soaring USA
The Sailplane Shop
Martin Pilný
F3B大好き!!! Flight Log
Footime

Enjoy theme!!!!

New Jiri Baudis Model

You can read a small report about Cyril by Jiri Baudis in f3bnews.fr

2nd F3B Cup Brno

Very good tracking in WC site about Cup Brno, results and photos on-line, it seems WC will have very good organization. After duration and distance rain started... :-(