The 2008 F1D World Championships are over and the results can be found here. Congratulations to all who participated and especially to Ivan Treger, the new World Champion with a new record flight, to John Kagan and the U.S. team.
The 2008 Indoor World Championships are being held in Beograd (Belgrade), Serbia. Preceding the World Championships was the Belgrade Open Internationals, 2008. Nick Aikman posted the results on the Yahoo F1D discussion group:
Results from Belgrade Open Internationals 15th/16th:
35 cm class. Open FAI Open International Indoor Models
Serbia- Belgrade 2008
Name Nation. 1 round 2 round 3 round 4 round
5 round 6 round
Total
1 Mark Benns GBR 28:16 26:19 30:50 31:08 00:00 00:00 1:01:58
2 Robin Bailey GBR 20:44 29:22 30:55 00:00 00:00 00:00 1:00:17
3 Slobodan Midic SRB 09:08 22:52 20:35 20:45 00:00 00:00 0:43:37
4 P Ing GBR 17:42 11:39 16:28 15:55 00:00 00:00 0:34:10
5 John Shaw GBR 15:09 00:00 15:53 16:38 00:00 00:00 0:32:31
6 Ivan Rus SRB 13:48 06:00 11:52 00:00 00:00 00:00 0:25:40
7 Mihajlo Pil SRB 07:56 11:24 10:38 00:00 00:00 00:00 0:22:02
8 Stojan Dimovski SRB 06:31 00:00 11:23 05:04 08:45 00:00 0:20:08
9 Lazar Lacimic SRB 00:00 00:00 00:00 00:00 00:00 00:00 0:00:00
10 Bosko Lacimic SRB 00:00 00:00 00:00 00:00 00:00 00:00 0:00:00
F1D Seniors FAI Open International Indoor Models
Serbia- Belgrade 2008 (1st 10 places).
Name Nation. 1 round 2 round 3 round 4 round
5 round 6 round
Total
1 Ivan Treger SVK 31:21 33:40 35:00 23:59 32:08 32:34 1:08:40
2 Lutz Schramm GER 16:33 34:20 00:00 34:08 00:00 00:00 1:08:28
3 John Kagan USA 30:05 32:00 34:10 27:39 17:15 31:55 1:06:10
4 James Richmond USA 30:30 28:45 00:00 33:00 32:30 10:01 1:05:30
5 Dezso Orsovai HUN 31:29 33:02 11:02 31:56 00:00 00:00 1:04:54
6 Aurel Popa ROU 30:50 31:34 32:44 01:46 13:39 18:38 1:04:18
7 Mikita Kaplan CZE 09:11 32:16 25:54 28:50 31:38 00:00 1:03:54
8 Andras Ree HUN 01:36 29:23 32:20 31:24 00:00 00:00 1:03:44
9 Slobodan Midic SRB 00:00 00:00 00:00 05:07 31:46 31:07 1:02:53
10 Mangalea Corneliu ROU 26:21 01:26 15:24 30:34 29:24 30:58 1:01:32
I don’t have the Junior F1D results but 1st was Gabriela Kaplanova,
2nd Robet Horak and 3rd was Petr Klimes.
2 more days of practice flying now before the World Chumps!
Enjoy.
Nick Aikman.
Practice flying for the World Championships began Sunday. A video of flying during the BOI can be seen on You Tube . The site is pretty impressive. Being that most readers here should know what they are looking at, I still feel I have to say look carefully at the You Tube video and notice the planes flying up high in the space. Why aren’t the seats full of spectators? Do these meets need sponsorship from the likes of Red Bull or Budweiser?
From Karol Vins on the Yahoo Indoor Construction discussion group, here is the URL to the list of contestants at this year’s Indoor World Championships. Good flying to all!
Aerocraft, Flying Models, Peck Polymers and the National Free Flight Society all have the book, and it is selling well. The last issue of Flying Models had a mention up front, one in Larry Kruse’s column and advertised as available from the Carsten’s Book Hangar. A blurb will appear in the September issue of Model Aviation in Bob Aberle’s column. The best deal on the book is from NFFS if you’re an NFFS member.
We’re hoping the AMA will have it soon in it’s catalog/museum store. We’re pesting them about it but the management needs a push from others who might want to buy it from them.
We’re most thankful to all who’ve spread the word about this third printing. Thank you!
The links for buyers on our main book web site have been 50/50. There was a small problem with the link to Peck Polymers that’s been ironed out and we’ve received questions about the NFFS (National Free Flight Society) link which goes to the site but once there there’s no way to get to any info on the book. Patience please, they’re working on it.
The book has received publicity in the latest Flying Models Magazine, Cloud 9’s June issue, and there’s more coming in various publications.