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Competitions
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Saturday, 01 November 2008 |
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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.
Special thanks for videos to Mr. Jurgen Heilig.
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Monday, 01 September 2008 |
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Last week 14 European F3A championship come to end, strongest pilots from Europe compete for champion title. This year championship was held in Italy - Celcinatello. 
6th time Europe Champion, CPLR. Second S.Silvestri, third B. Beschorner
Planes 
New CPLR plane, Axiome.
One of the best looking F3A plane i ever saw, Miss Wind. 
Liechtenstein team, with legendary F3A pilot Mr. W.Matt holding new Amethyst.
Sequences 
 
10 Finalists. Results 
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Saturday, 02 August 2008 |
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Last weekend we had our National championship in 3 categorries, F3A-classic pattern, F3J-thermal soaring and F3K-hand throw gliders. Champnship was held in Alytus airfield already 4th time in a row.
Competition was divided in two parts (to save time on F3J equipment preparation) so 8 prelim and 4 final F3J rounds was held on saturday and 3 rounds of F3A and 8 of F3K took part on sunday. F3A Third round flight, it can also be found on FlyingGiants.com Unfortunately this year i could not get/prepare in time big 2m plane, and my last season glow plane is already sold, so i had to use small Vanquish from Extreme Flight, that is powered by Flight Power EVO25 2500mah 4S pack. P07 is quite difficult sequence specialy for smaller planes, so i had to make some changes on my Vanquish to make it fly even better. I always find interesting to experiment with some aerodynamic devices to make good planes fly even better. This time i use CPLR idea T-Catalyzer. Since it was shown in France 2005 f3a WC, i was wondering is it just "look at me" type device ore it really work and give advantage. People like CPLR, BPLR and QQ don't look like persons that use device without real benefit.
So i put small t Catalyzer on Vanquish, and i was surprised with nice changes i saw in flight; * KE/KE loops does not require so much rudder input. * All rolling maneuvers improve, fuselage stay horizontal, and maneuver looks smoother. * Vanquish is small plane and it was quite hard to make good looking integrated rolling circles (not talking about rolling loops), Canard help here as well, with less correction it looks better. T-canard is made from balsa, and reinforced/attached with 3mm carbon tube, inside of fuselage is also reinforced with balsa. Weight ready to attach canard was only 10g! Canard view from top. 
Affter one week of practice i get use to plane and ready for competition.
Guest from Latvia Aigars with his own construction airplane powered with two stroke OS160fx. Paulius airplane. F3A Results (2 best round summ of 3) ; 1.Donatas Pauzuolis 899 points.
2.Vitalijus Pilkionis 838 points.
3.Arturas Narbutas 462 points.
4.Paulius Raupys 425 points.
5.Aivars Banders 373 points. My dad Rimas help to start engine. Rolling Harrier. First hover affter engine brake in! Low and slow;)  Now im happy;) I stay one more day in Alytus for some flying, here you can see happy pilot, Jersey modeller fuel can with F3A championship cup that was won with small Vanquish. Discusssions about my Yak and giant airplane servos on FlyingGiants.com
F3K F3K class grow and become more popular each year, this time there was total 14 pilots. Almost all of them flew "Vladimir's modells" Blaster-2 (including me as well).
F3K final results affter 8 rounds.
Ilja Krug practicing beffore competition;)
Some F3K pilots had to much beer on saturday...?;)
In championship i meet one very nice guy, who is working on special FX electronics for RC models, check out his amazing work and preview video from championship. All heli flying was made by Evaldas Cerniauskas.
F3J Its not a secret that F3J is most popular class in Lithuania, so it was not surpise that it atract biggest number of participants. Level in this class is really hi, and it always give interesting finals. 2008 F3J Lithuania Champion Algimantas Vasiliauskas. Juozas Svirusis took second place, in both F3J and F3K. This year championship was very sucesful for me, and i would like to thank all my sponsors and people that help me for big support in 2008 year!!! My dad Rimas
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Thursday, 12 June 2008 |
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I have wonderfull news, this weekend Lithuania team visit very interesting competition in Italy, Turin, it was test event for famous Worl Air Games in 2009 year. FAI promoting 3 new class, F6A (Artistic Aerobatic) F6B (Aeromusicals) and F6D (Hand throw gliders) all these categories will be included in Worl Air Games. F6A, Artistic Aerobatic; Sad but this time Artistic aerobatic class atract not so much pilots, totaly there was 6 participants in F6A, organizers told Sebastiano did not prepare routine because of bad weather beffore competition and bussy work schedule, Alberto had problems with his plane. Anyway small number of participants did not mean competition will b e easy, there was few some top 3m plane pilots, Gernot Bruckmann, Filippo Materazzi, Massimo Selva.
As Artistic aerobatic rules say plane must be not bigger than 2x2m and not heavier than 5kg,its quite hard to reach such results, keeping good power for powerfull 4min routine. Masimo and Filippo flew Sebart 140 Funtanas, both electric powered, Gernot had new good looking Sukhoy 140 also from SebArt. I flew Extreme Flight RC , 58inch Extra 300, naturally it is to small plane for Artistic Aerobatic competition but with good weather conditions, it was competetive to 2m planes. Affter interesting fight with some best world pilots i was able to win competition, pictures and videos are much better than thousand words, so please enjoy;)
 1.Me/EF 58 inch Extra , 2. Gernot Bruckmann/SebArt Su29 140, 3. Filippo Materazzi SebArt Funtana 140  Powered by Flight Power EVO25 3700mah 5S packs, Extra had crazy power! 
Top 4 pilots with planes, one from Extreme flight RC other three from SebArt.
Finalists, Gernot Bruckmann and Donatas Pauzuolis.
Flight Power team, Donatas, Massimo and Filippo.
Massimo preparing his plane.
Affter awesome SMOKE demo, Evaldas Heli require some cleaning;)
F6A points for Turin competition; Place | Name | Nation | FAI
Licence Nr | World Ranking Points |
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1 | Donatas Paužuolis | LTU | LT-493 | 367,42 | 2 | Gernot Bruckmann | AUT | 240039 0058 | 183,71 | 3 | Filippo Materazzi | ITA | ITA-15392 | 122,47 | 4 | Massimo Selva | SMR | SMR-012 | 91,86 | 5 | Sebastiano Gabutti | ITA | ITA- | 73,48 | 6 | Evaldas Černiauskas | LTU | LT- | 61,24 | WAG CIAM Selection contest World Ranking
Filippo SebArt Funtana.
Simply sick movements!
 Only one Graupner 8811 servo on pull-pull system is more than enough for elevator. 
Massimo impressive special FX's on his plane.
Quick field update on my Extra;)
F6A Videos; Artistic Aerobatics finals result:
2-minute compulsory music: - Donatas Pauzuolis: 131.50 points
- Gernot Bruckmann: 118.50 points
- Filippo Materazzi: 111.00 points
4-minute free music: - Donatas Pauzuolis: 131.00 points
- Gernot Bruckmann: 122.00 points
- Filippo Materazzi: 120.00 points
F6B Aeromusicals. Its quite strange to fly indoor when we have fantastic weather outside, but it was organizers idea to test all WAG classes in action. Few thing were different compared to other selection competitions i visit this indoor season. Main difference was pilot position, all pilots stand infront of judges and spectators, probably this give good chance to look at pilot face durring flight. I must say hall is very good for such top event, average size in lenght and width with very hi ceiling, give allot of space for any routine. All pilots except Filippo (Vortex) ussed monoplans, Fabien flew Donuts models Yak, Gernot his profiled wing Yak55, Marco flew not typical am plane Mercury, i ussed Sultimate, and Gyula flew his own designed plane. I must say this young guy improove allot from last F6B Mons competition!
 F6B points for Turin competition; Place | Name | Nation | Licence Nr | World Ranking Points |
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1 | Gernot Bruckmann | AUT | 240039 0058 | 367.42 | 2 | Donatas Paužuolis | LTU | LTU-493 | 183.71 | 3 | Fabien Turpaud | FRA | FRA-1136 | 122.48 | 4 | Filippo Materazzi | ITA | ITA-15392 | 91.86 | 5 | Gyula Inzsöl | HUN | HUN-3026 | 73.49 | 6 | Marco Valliera | ITA | ITA-15273 | 61.24 | Discussions about competitions on  RCgroups. Nice demo flights were made with two dirigibles. F6D, Hand launch gliders; Right way to scare oponent;) First place F6D winner Ricardas Siumbrys. Second place winner Vitalijus Pilkionis. No comments;) F6D Points for Turin competition; Place | Name | Nation | FAI
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1 | Ricardas Siumbrys | LTU | LT-273 | 400.00 | 2 | Vitalijus Pilkionis | LTU | LT-568 | 200.00 | 3 | Alberto Consolini | ITA | ITA-15618 | 133.33 | 4 | Carlo Cobianchi | ITA | ITA-13509 | 100.00 | 5 | Donatas Paužuolis | LTU | LT-493 | 80.00 | 6 | Massimiliano Sacchi | ITA | ITA 15309 | 66.67 | 7 | Claudio Zavagno | ITA | ITA-15238 | 57.14 | 8 | Flavio Pompele | ITA | ITA-8785 | 50.00 | 9 | Ivan Brayne | ITA | ITA-15617 | 44.44 | 10 | Pietro Casagrande | ITA | ITA-10427 | 40.00 | 11 | Juozas Svirusis | LTU | LT-575 | 36.36 | 12 | Carlo Poli | ITA | ITA-15587 | 33.33 | 13 | Sergejs Timofejevs | LAT | 270YL | 30.77 | 14 | Donatas Pampikas | LTU | LT-472 | 28.57 | 15 | Davide Bettin | ITA | ITA-15374 | 26.67 | 16 | Giambattista de Lorenzi | ITA | ITA-15364 | 25.00 | Discussions about F6D competition on RCgroups. Blaster inspector working;)  LT team affter good start. Conclusion;
Speeking for all Lithuania team, i can say this was one of the best (if not the best) competitions we ever visit, very helpfull organizers, nice athmosphere and allot of flying, what else you can expect? Naturally sad that contest atract not so much participants (specialy in Artistic Aerobatic class) as we expect, but we hope it will improve till next year. July 31 day will be decided how many pilots will be invited to main event. Total there is 10 airsports, and over 25 events, this promisse very interesting event.
Mr. Guy Revel, preparing participants music.
Lithuania team.
SebArt Hat.
Quite interesting to hold snow in middle of june;)
Amazing Switzerland mountains. 
Special thanks from all Lithuania team goes to Ronaldas, we really apreciate your help mate!!!
See you in 2009 WAG!!!
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Sunday, 25 May 2008 |
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Its only 12 days left untill one of most interesting modelling event for this summer. 2009 World air games selection contests are in full swing, and already half (mostly indoor F6B) selection contest is over. Now when wheather getting better and better its time tu run outdoor contests (F6A and F6D). On June 7-8 d. in Italy, Turin (Host of 2009 WAG), test even will take place in same location as main event next year. Both indoor and outdoor flying areas looks perfect. Aeritalia airfield for Artistic Aerobatics and Hand launch glider competitions.
 Huge Palaruffini hall for F6B contest. Diameter of this hall is about 50m and height is about 20m.
Turin test event information;
FAI Jury:
Chairman:
Mr. Guy REVEL, France, Chairman of the CIAM World Air Games Committee,
Members:
Mr. Sandro Schirru, FIAM Delegate, Air Sport Director Aeromodelling World Air Games ,
+ One Member to be nominated.
Judges:
Jiri Havel Czech Republic
Dag Echoff Norway
Enrico Ornaghi Italy
Lucio Della Toffola Italy
Claudio Scambia Italy
Contest Directors:
Robert Herzog Belgium Discipline F6B, (under confirmation)
Discipline F6A/C (To be confirmed)
Tomas Bartovsky Czech Republic Discipline F6D
Field Marshall/ Event Managers:
Franco Givone Artistic Aerobatics F6A/C
Fabrizio Ceccarini AeroMusicals Indoor F6B
Vittorio Givone Hand Thrown Gliders F6D
Full WAG slelection contests calendar and registration forms can by found here . For late registration contact with Mr. Fabrizio Ceccarini. Competition bulletin can be found here.
Competition program;
The contest and all rounds for qualifications will take place at the two venues starting with outdoor competitions on Saturday morning lasting two days including Sunday June 8,2008.
The Artistic Aerobatics F6A airplanes and helicopters will fly Saturday from 9 AM to 12, without overlap with the Hand Thrown Gliders F6D, which will fly from 3PM to 6/7 PM.
Indoor flights will start at 6PM up to 9PM for semifinals not to have overlap with the Artistic Aerobatics outdoor.
Semifinals and finals will tentatively be flown on Sunday from 9 Am to 5PM outdoor and from 6PM to 8 PM indoor.
Training flights on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning at Pala Ruffini.
Competition participants;
This time Lithuania team will be bigger than ussual, because of more popular categories like F6D (F3K) and F6A. Here is my friends that will come to Turin;
 Ricardas Siumbrys F6D.
Vitalijus Pilkionis F6D. 
Donatas Pampikas - F6D. Evaldas Cerniauskas F6A.
Juozas Svirusis F6D. I heard from organizers that such pilots as; Gernot Bruckman , Lukas Riva , Sebastiano Silvestri , Fabien Turpaud , Filippo Materazzi , Alberto Caralo and many other registered for F6A class, so this guarante amazing show for spectators and hard work for judges. As far as i know this will be first competition ever, where helis will compete with planes in same class. Also quite interesting thing that Silvesti will fly with 3D jet Hawk, yes F6A rulles alow it as well. Make sure visit my homepage after few weeks for full report about Turin test competition! |
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