Its long time since last update on my homepage, but now i have wonderfull news, next year January we will run our first open F3P championship in small town near Kaunas, Kazlų Rūda. This will be great two days competition because of few things, first of them is competition sponsors; Axi model motors , Flight Power , CasteCreations, Jersey Modeler, Express Flight, Propeleris.lt and RC-hobby will be sponsoring event with awesome RC equipment. We already receive box full of goodies from Axi, also waiting for new EON F3P lypo packs from Flight power!!! Im really happy to see our hobby have such wonderfull companies and people that stand behind them!
Competition poster, please share it with anyone who can find this interesting.
Goodies from Axi Model Motors.
Championship official information sponsor www.aviacijospasaulis.lt
Second thing that guaranty good time, is amazing hall we get from main event sponsor "Kazlų Rūdos sporto centras", 12m height and simply huge hall.
Durring competition our friends www.rc-hobby.lt will run small shop inside hall, so it will be possible to buy some foamie accessories , carbon, depron ore CA glues.
Map that will help you find hall easier. For best way from your town i suggest to use www.viamichelin.com
For detailed and full information about competition please downloand Bulletin Nr.1;
Competition BULLETIN (in English) download here!!!
Because this will be our first attempt to run such competition, decission was made to keep old well known pattern sequences. New FAI F3P-09 sequence is way to difficult for beginners, so we will use old F3P-A, F3P-B and NEW F3P-C sequences, maneuver list of both sequences can be found on bulletin. Video examples of both sequences and 2min AM routine;
F3P-A (Pattern)
F3P-B (Basic pattern)
F3P-C (Baginer pattern)
1.Horizontal eight 2.Loop 3.Roll 4.Triangle loop 5.Knife edge flight 6.Square loop 7.4 point roll
F3P-AM (Aeromusical)
Participant list, (so far 22 pilots from 4 countries);
I present you Sultimate V2, my 2008/2009 indoor season Aeromusical plane. Last year plane was very successful design and bring me many victories in international competitions!
Questions; what can be updated on already good plane?
Answers;
1.Increase control surface area is not a bad idea;) 2.Making plane slightly bigger for better appearance in air. 3.Searching for better equipment.
And here we have Sultimate V2;
New scheme.
Technical info;
Fuselage lenght: 90cm
Wings lenght: 83cm
RTF weight: 140-160g, (depending on equipment), plane in picture weight is 149g rtf.
Radio: Jr 9V2 Gold, RX: AR6300 (~2g).
Servos: Hitec 65hb on elevator, D47 rudder D47S on ailerons both Dymonds connected to 2s lypo. Best place to buy these servos at Aerobertics.be
Bottom of plane, you can see two D47S servos on ailerons.
Bigger plane need more powerfull engine, Axi2203/Race handle job really well.
In last 4 years i flew with Vytas CD-R motors, unfortunately we lost stator suplier, and further motor production is under big question. Other stators we test don't give even close results that we expect. So i had to find more powerfull silent motor ASAP, since first serious F3P competitions waiting for me already in next month. Some of my RC friends, like Benoit Dierickx, Gernot Bruckmann, fly with Axi motors with great success, so i decide to try it as well. New Axi 2203/Race was beyond my expectations, very well build, motor have really good trust and at same time don't make to much noise, that is very important for Aeromusical. In video bellow you can see what i have in mind, actually i set only 85 percents thr curve on my TX, since i don't need so much power for my Aeromusical routines!
Motor Specification
No. of cells
2 Li-Poly
RPM/V
2300 RMP/V
Max. efficiency
74%
Max. efficiency current
3 - 7,5 A (>69%)
No load current / 8 V
0,55 A
Current capacity
9 A/20 s
Internal Resistance
220 mohm
Dimensions (diameter. x lenght)
27,7x21 mm
Shaft diameter
carbon 3 mm
Weight with cables
18,5 g
So im happy to announce that affter possitive testing Model motors aka AXI , become my sponsors, im really happy to start work with them. In any case i will use Axi motor for Aeromusical planes, and for pattern planes i still be ussing good light and reliable Vytas bruschless.
Best and most powerfull indoor lypo packs from Flight power.
Better than 1000 words is one video, so enjoy;
This time we test something different , video was captured with fish eye lense, special thanks for Aleksei from MyResearch.
Our good friends from Netherlands at the end of December will be organizing unforgetable show/cometition "Wall-halla NL", it was inspired by last year very successful show/synchro flight competition Wallhalla in Germany that was organized by Mr. Martin Muller, Stephanie Schwan and Markus Zolitsch . Looks like competition in Natherlands will be main F3P event for 2008/2009 year.
Such pilots as Martin Muller, Derk/Bert Van Der Vecht , Gernot Bruckmann, Benoit Dierickx, Denis Horn and many more will compete in spectator friendly competition, that will include Synchro flight Aeromusical, new modiffied F3P 09 sequence, famous CZ Airrace and Aeromusical!!!
Here is my last practice video for Synchro AM competition with Gernot (his 2007 AM routine);
More information about competition can be found here.
Update: MR. Dave send me video of his demo flight with Deluxe, enjoy;
Download hi quality video here. For more videos/pictures from contest click here.
My good friend from USA, Mr. David Lockhard (top F3A pilot), send me great news, using my designed F3P-A pattern plane Deluxe he won local F3P contest in USA. Here is his story and few pictures:
KIEF indoor festival is over. 1st year of event, and 75 pilots. Nonstop flying from 8AM Saturday to 5PM Sunday. Small F3P contest Sunday morning for A and B sequences. I do not know exact results, but I was 1st in F3P-A with Deluxe. Perfect start for me, many pattern contests as you know, but my first F3P-A contest – I think I will retire now, and be undefeated!!!
David milled Deluxe with JR9303 2.4ghz radio.
Very large flying place – only problem was wind and turbulence – heaters cycle on/off to blow hot air to keep building at about 18C – at night it was cold, about 2C.
Deluxe is flying very well, and I am learning the plane. Last Sunday, I made 12 flights in Lakehurst Hangar (HUGE flying site), and Wednesday, I fly 7 times in very small (to me anyway) gym which is 25x18 meters x 15.5 tall, and maybe 5 practice flights at KIEF before the F3P contest (I have video of one flight, file size is also large).
Competition participants with pattern planes.
For F3P at KIEF, my opponents flew FF milled Vantage (very light, maybe 125 grams and Clik! (140 grams). Deluxe and Vantage are slower flying than Clik!, but Deluxe gets faster in downlines, and Vantage is very slow in downlines. I think the Deluxe is very smooth and stable in the air, and because is so big, it looks very nice. Because of wind from the heaters, it was better to fly a little faster. I have not put landing gear fairing or rounded leading edge on the Deluxe yet – I will do this, and also consider options to make the downline slower – right now, I have added small brake on back of the rudder, but do not have as much drag brakes on the elevator.
Probably most popular indoor pattern design by Mr. David Kyjovsky "Click" already counting third years of flying.
Fancy Foam Vantage F3P design by J. Chinn.
David preparing for start.
For Saturday and Sunday, KIEF has demos at lunch – each day I flew the Deluxe to show F3P and some freestyle. Many people ask about where the plane is from, how to get the kits, and when it will be available.
Special thanks to David, for article and top Deluxe representation!!!
For all people that are interested in getting Deluxe for new indoor season, i have good news, right now i make small changes for design, to make plane better suited for more difficult F3P-09 sequence , affter that it will be released by Extreme Flight RC (hopefully untill new year.)
F3P 09 sequence (modiffied version) flown in Mons Expo 2008 competition.
Aresti diagram of this sequence can be found here. At the moment its not official, since FAI did not aprove it, but in some countries like Netherland decission was made to fly it in 2009 year season competitions, since sequence proposed by FAI is not flyable in regular sport gym.
F3P finals sequence (modiffied version) flown in Mons Expo 2008 competition.
