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 

 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.

  

Affter one week of practice i get use to plane and ready for competition. 

  

Now im happy;)

 

 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).

 

 

  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.

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;

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;

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!  

Discussions about competitions on RCgroups. 

 

 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;) 

Special thanks from all Lithuania team goes to Ronaldas, we really apreciate your help mate!!! 

 See you in 2009 WAG!!!

 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.

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. 

                                                    Ricardas Siumbrys F6D.

                                                         Vitalijus Pilkionis F6D.

                                                      Donatas Pampikas - F6D.

 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!   

 

 

 

3.Place. Gernot Bruckmann (Austria). 

F3P flights;

1.Place Dennis Horn 

2.Place Derk Van Der Vecht

3.Place Donatas Pauzuolis  

Links 

 Jurgen Heilig Competition review.

 Discussions on RCgroups forum.

Comming next; Extreme flight 58inch Extra review

Indoor season is almost over, only one competition left (Tutin test event, WAG FB selection) in Italy, Turin 06 07 08 . So you can expect more outdoor equipment/plane reviews and videos.  First will be  EF 58inch Extra .