World Championship Results
2007 F3A (RC Aerobatics) World Championship
The World Championship was held at Ezeiza, Argentina November 8-18, 2007.
Individual Final Results:
Quique Somenzini, USA
Christophe Paysant-Le, FRA
Tetsuo Onda, JPN
Team Final Results:
France
USA
Japan
The full results can be found at the following address: http://www.argentinaf3a.com.
2007 F3D (Pylon) World Championship
The World Championship was held at AMA's International Aeromodeling Center in Muncie, IN June 23-June 28 2007.
Individual Final Results:
Randy Bridge, USA
Travis Flynn, USA
Ranjit Phelan, AUS
Team Final Results:
Australia
Italy
Czech Republic
2007 Outdoor Free Flight World Championship
The World Championship was held in Odesa, Ukraine June 24-July 1, 2007.
F1A Individual Final Results:
Per Findahl, SWE
Ivan Bezak, SVK
Rudolf Holzleitner, AUT
F1A Team Final Results:
Hungary
Italy
Russia
F1B Individual Final Results:
Oleg Kulakovsky, UKR
Igor Vivchar, UKR
Anatoliy Zastavenko, UKR
F1B Team Final Results:
Japan
Ukraine
Israel
F1C Individual Finals Results:
Artem Babenko, UKR
Shigeru Kanegawa, JPN
Reinhard Truppe, AUT
F1C Team Final Results:
Hungary
Poland
Germany
The full results can be found at the following address:
http://www.fai.org/aeromodelling/competitions/free_flight/ch07/ff07.htm
2007 F3B Thermal Soaring World Championship
The World Championship was held in Emmen/Lucerne, Switzerland July 7-14, 2007.
Individual Final Results:
Martin Herrig, GER
Andreas Herrig, GER
Fidel Frick, LIE
Team Final Results:
GER
SUI
USA
2007 F3C RC Helicopter World Championship
The World Championship was held in Wloclawek, Poland July 27 - August 5, 2007.
Individual Final Results:
Hiroki Itou, JPN
Scott Gray, CAN
Curtis Youngblood, USA
Team Final Results:
Japan
USA
Australia
The full results can be found at the following address:
http://www.f3c-hwc2007.w3wl.pl/
2007 F1E World Championship
The World Championship was held in Turda-Bogata Hills, Romania August 27-September 1, 2007.
Senior Individual Final Results:
Alain Roux, FRA
Stanislaw Kubit, WCh
Werner Ackermann, GER
Junior Individual Final Results:
Adrian Secan, ROU
Mateusz Kanczok, POL
Armin Mang, AUG
Senior Team Final Results:
Romania
France
Switzerland
Junior Team Final Results:
Romania
Poland
France
2007 F1E Team Manager's Report
Vince Croghan and I arrived at Turda Romania on August 22. We arrived early in order to have 2 extra days practice . We practiced at the site of the 2003 World championships .on Aug 23 rd., with good results. On Friday the 24th, we practiced at the alternate site that was selected for use if it rained which would make the primary site unaccessible.
There were severe thunderstorms which delayed Tom Ioergers flight into Cluj Romania. until late at night.
On Sat the 25th, a world cup contest was held at the alternate site as the primary site was wet and would not be usable for the world championships also.
The alternate site was not very high as compared to the primary site. It was about 200 ft high and had a U curve shape facing to the north that created unpredictable slope currents when there were any slight change in wind direction or velocity. The wind was strong from the north and made it difficult to properly set the models up for the ever changing conditions.
On the practice days Monday and Tuesday, the wind was light and was from the south. The side of the the alternate site facing south overlooked a dog legged valley that required careful adjusting of the steering to make the models fly along the side of the hill into the valley to utilize the lift on the hill ,but still fly towards the lowest point of the valley. After two days of practice, we were ready to compete on the south facing site of the site.
The opening ceremony was held at the city hall of Turda. During the ceremony, Marious Contu of the Romanian aero club, announced that the number of teams participating in the F1E world championship has increased by 33% since the 1999 world championship.
Wednesday August 29th world championship day.
There had been showers during the night and it was quite overcast and occasionally light rain fell during the contest. Again we had to fly at the alternate site as the primary site was unaccessible. There was nearly dead calm with occasionally a slight breeze up the slope but not enough wind to create a slope current to provide lift. During each round there was at least 10 to 20 minutes that there was a slight breeze down the slope that made it nearly impossible to achieve a maximum flight of 300 seconds.
Round 1.
Vince flew first. He waited for 30 min. for a sign of lift but all of the other competitors flights we observed did not max or made maxes by only a few seconds. With less than 30 min. left in the round vince made his flight because the rest of our team still had to fly. Just as he launched, the wind started to blow down the slope resulting in a flight of 232 seconds. Tom flew second when there was a little more breeze up the slope and maxed easily. My turn was next with only 10 min. left in the round there was no breeze and I flew with only 2 min . left to fly. With no lift my model landed 11 sec. Short of a max which was verry good under the conditions.
Round 2.
Vince and I easily maxed this round but Tom misses by a few seconds during a period of heavier rain.
Round 3.
The rain stopped and for the entire round the breeze was stronger and the lift was better. All three of us maxed and 29 of the 36 competitors also maxed.
Round 4.
The breeze was down the slope again this round making finding lift nearly impossible again.
Tom and Vince maxed this round .
Round 5.
There was little or no breeze to produce lift but all three of us had by now re-trimmed our models for the conditions and easily maxed. The other competitors had also been adjusting their models and 32 competitors also scored maxes.
There was only 6 competitors that scored a perfect 500 points. The winner of the fly off was Alain Roux of France .
The USA team placed 4th with a score of 1420 points of a possible 1500. The competition was so close that we were only 58 points out of first place, 52 points out of 2nd place, and17 points out of 3rd place . Fifth thru eighth place were2 points, 6 points, 7 points and 12 points behind us. Due to the weather conditions, this was a very close competition. Had we had a little luck during 2 or 3 of the flights that were not max flights, we might have placed higher and possibly won the team competition.
The USA team worked well together and helped each other fly every flight during the practice days and during the competitions. We will share our experience of flying F1E under the unusual conditions experienced with all of the F1E modelers in the USA.
We thank the Cluj- Napoca Romania aero club for providing 3 youth to help us with model retrieval.
Robert Sifleet
Member and Team Manager of the 2007
F1E World Championship Team.