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!!!