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Few weeks ago, me my friend Ignas and Vaidas, visited open Belarus F3A championship that was held in Minsk main airfield, that is not only active working today but also have unique museum of different age soviet military planes and helicopters.

We came to field one day before competition to have some practice on nice prepared F3A field. Strong cross wind made practice quite interesting and more difficult, at the end of the day this practice was very useful because on Saturday morning wind was blowing same direction only stronger.

Saturday early morning we came to field organizers were already preparing field for competition, and after one practice flight, briefing and opening ceremony we start flights.

Ready steady go;) Most of the job preparing this great competition was done by our good friend Gregorij Drozd.

Nice food during brake.

Concentration in F3A is key to success ore something like that;)

Pilots line up for start.

Planes.

Most of participants flew 2M F3A planes, but there were several different type planes that flew in National class. Unfortunately not all pilots that register before competition show up in field. Sad but Mr. Makarov from Ukraine was not able to fly with us, also several good Belarus pilots were not ready for competition.

My 2010 season F3A plane, Spark Dynamic from Krill models. Plane is powered by AXI 5325/F3A , controlled by Castle Creation Phoenix 85HV, motor battery is Flight tech 4350mah 10s brick. Such setup gave me good power even for strong cross wind. For RX power i use Powerbox Sensor that is connected to two 2s lypo 450mah packs.

V.Verbovenko plane "A Kind Of Magic".

Ignas Matulevicius flew his small Vanquish from Extreme Flight and won against few 2 meter planes, this show quality judging where plane size does not matter, only geometry and technical details are important.

Onyx 140 from Protech, electric powered plane by Dmitrij.

Gregorij plane Europa produced in Russia, and powered by Pletenberg .

Competition was held also in Race class, that have allot of crashes and was entertaining to watch.

Zal pticku, i samaliota;)

Next to Pattern and race, competition was held in copy class as well, unfortunately only few participants show up.

Da da eta bil ded maroz;)

Results;

Lithuania team with fantastic person and competition judge Mr. Viktor.

Pattern Results, for those who don't read Russian language, Both first places in FAI and National classes was won by Lithuanian pilots.

Entrance to modeling building.

Grigorij planes rest affter competitions.

If you will be lucky to meet Mr. Viktor spend few minutes and talk with him, hes all life is connected with aviation, he is not only active modeler, but also was military helicopters and aircraft pilot!

Most of us remember DOSAF and good times in soviet union airfield when flying was free, and basicly everyone that had wish could fly. Well Belarus is probably last country that still have Dosaf working, during all weekend we could see that airfield work very active, parachute jumps, aerobatic and helicopter flights from morning till late evening, this sure is sign that Minsk airfield is alive.

Museum;

Definitely most impressive museum aircraft Mi-26, world largest helicopter.

All aviators known nice lines of working plane AN-2, and we all know this is not small plane, but compared to MI-26 even AN-2 looks tinny;)

Main instrument on board of Mi-26.

Main blades, each of these blades is 350kg !!! Main rotor diameter 32m!

Tail blades.

Special thanks for Genadij for Mi - 26 tour!

Mig-29

Museum entrance.

Minsk tour.

Special thanks Grigorij Drozd for tour in Minsk.

Party Belarusian style;)))

Sobrazili...;)

Dimon i Dzamshut baniu pastrojili Manamana;)

I think next year Lithuania team traveling to Belarus championship will be bigger !!! Dima thank you for warm welcome !!!

Foto gallery.

Panavezys F3A cup Nr1 of 2010 season

Tuesday, 25 May 2010

This weekend we had first Lithuania F3A cup round of 2010, we had fantastic weather and simply great weekend in Panevezys.

Nice flying field prepared by Panevezys pilots.

Judges working.

Gregorij Drozd plane Europa.

Our friend from Latvia Aivars Banders.

Our friends from Belarus Dima and Gregorij.

Pilots after long day of flying, it is very nice to see F3A pilot number growing.

E.T.O.C. Electric tournament of champions 2010

Saturday, 01 May 2010

Few weeks ago i visit ETOC in USA (Toledo) and Dortmund intermodelbau expo in Germany, but only now i find time to write about this great trip. Because i had only one week for preparation for trip i decide to use good old Sultimate instead of Arrow VPP for freestye and new Symmetric for pattern.

My interview video about trip and new pattern plane from Higher plane productions, very nice videos from all main RC events.

ETOC here i come!!!

Monday, 05 April 2010

Hello dear friends, in past few month i visit some very nice F3P competitions in France, Germany and Belarus. Unfortunately because of lack of time (and to be honest priority to fly/build instead of sitting next to PC), i did not update my homepage so often. I will try to do this latter in summer as well with detailed Krill Spark and SebArt MissWind50 building/flying reviews.

For the moment im glad to share one great news, last week i receive USA visa, so finally i will be able to visit Electric Tournament Of Champions in Toledo, Ohio, this will be my first visit to USA. ETOC is combined with largest RC expo in USA, so i will also have chance to meet my friends/sponsors, Castle Creations, Extreme Flight, Desert Aircraft, Jersey Modeler, Vess Propellers and Mercury Adhesives. Even if i had only one week to prepare for ETOC, i can say preparation went smooth and now im happy with both my pattern and Aeromusical flights.

As most of you know my pattern plane for last 3 season was Deluxe, i think this plane is very good design for older sequences, new FAI sequence (particularly one maneuver spin), require different planes, my partners Donuts Models ask me to design smaller F3P plane with easier assemble process, also i had some ideas i had wish to test so new Symmetric was born. Sorry for the moment i will not post plane spec's until i will make some small changes and will be 100 percent happy with design for European sequences. Plane will be released as kit from Donuts models for 2010/2011 indoor season.

After seeing Martin Muller experiments with film covered super light F3P planes, i want to test it on smaller details, i see this technique work very well, so in future i will cover my planes with film instead of milling, im sure this will be HUGE weight saving.

Like plane name say it have fully symmetrical fuselage, wich brings KE flight very close to perfection. I have some ideas how to make next version with more symmetry.

First flights with AXI 2203/52 and 9,5x3,8 carbon prop.

After some modifications Symetric turn out to be really nice plane that make both positive and negative spins VERY easy, i think plane still is little to fast and agile for European sequences, however for difficult ETOC sequence this plane is perfect. I was able to adjust it for this year Etoc sequence in little less than one week, here you can see what i have in mind;

Last ETOC known sequence practice in Utena on 2010 04 05.

Known maneuvers;

1	1. Take off not judged Ent enter Box Inverted up high	K
2	1. 1 Cuban 8 from Top- ½ Roll integrated into first half loop, 1 and ½ Negative snap on 45 Degree upline, ½ Roll integrated on second loop, 2 half rolls opposite on second 45 upline. Exit Upright	K5
3	¼ roll to knife edge, ½ knife edge loop (Down), ¼ roll. Exit Inverted	K3
4	1 Roll Rolling Loop, Exit Inverted	K4
5	Stall Turn, 2 of 4 up, Full Roll Down Exit Upright	K3
6	2 Rolling Circles, 1 roll to the Outside, followed immediately by 2 roll rolling circle Inside then Outside. Exit Upright	K5
7	1 Top Hat 3 of 4 point up pull over the top. 2 of 2 point roll over top. Pull to downline, Knife edge exit.	K3
8	1 Horizontal Diamond loop-(Flown on the Horizontal Plane)- Half Rolls in each leg. Exit Knife Edge.	K4
9	Knife Edge Square Turn with 4 point roll ¼ roll on exit. Exit Upright	K2
10	4 of 8 point, Opposite Direct Negative Snap, Opposite Direction 4 of 8. Exit Upright	K4
11	½ square loop with 1 Torque Roll in each Direction. Exit Inverted	K2
12	1 Turn Negative Spin Exit Inverted	K4
13	1 Humpty Bump- Push, push, pull. Half rolls up and down. Exit Upright (Out of the Box)	K3
14	landing not judged	K

ETOC homepage; www.tntlandinggear.com/

ETOC forum; www.rcgroups.com/etoc-electric-tournament-of-champions-674/

ETOC and Toledo updates; www.flyinggiants.com

My trip to USA starts after 12 hours, it sure will be exciting week, if i find access to internet i will try to update with pictures and videos from contest and expo.

Lithuania open 2010 year F3P championship!

Monday, 01 February 2010

I can proudly say that 2010 year Lithuania open championship was success!!! Even if we had less participants than last year quality of flying improve really noticeable. Also as most of you know we change place of competition, last year hall was nice but have two problems that don't allow to run world class event, it had some obstacles on sides and obvious problem with heating.