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Table of Contents - SEN 1314


  1. Tube but no tweet from Croatia
  2. Bauer report #2
  3. Best wishes to Cajuns in Croatia
  4. Prefessor Isaenko



Notes from the World Champs organizers
- Tube but no tweet



Here's a few lines regarding WCh and Vilim Kmoch Memorial.

First,VK memorial.

Like a runnin in a new car ,this competition put the stress and pressure on the organizers as a preview what is to come.
There were some flaws that i'd like believe are minor and didn't affect the outcame at all.
In any case great way to warm up for the big thing.

F1A day was... well one thing is sure weather was excellent and so was the competition,with great two flyoffs.


F1B/C day, well i use to say that 90 percent of the problems at the flying field are related to weather.
If it's great competition is usually at the same level.
If the weather is bad ,problems emerge.

There was  lot of  talking prior to first round because of the conditions.
Unfortunately ,contitions(wind speed) just inside the rules.
I say unfortunately because it sure would be nice if we could delay the first round and start few hours later,
But we decided the only thing possible,follow the rules.
My regret is that it would be a another great competition with registered 85 wakefields and 47 power fliers.
At the end of the day weather got more stable and competition was brought to an end with 6 rounds in total.
Most of people know where to find results but just in case here' s a link
http://wch2009.com/results.asp

There is also an official youtube channel of the WC .
So far there is one clip from VK memorial ,hoping more to come.
http://www.youtube.com/user/ffwch2009

Few pictures from VK memorial can be found here on the croatian national aeromodelling forum.
http://www.aeromodelarstvo.net/Forum/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=1111&start=16
I also have a bunch of pictures and i'll post a link as soon as i  upload them.

We also opened international corner regarding WC  so feel free to drop by and share your thoughts.
http://www.aeromodelarstvo.net/Forum/category-view.asp

Best regards

Mario Omrcen


Editorial note - first WC with a You tube channel - but no twitter yet


Bauer Report #2 from Croatia



US Team news from Croatia
Monday, July 20, 2009
 
This should be a quick update.  It is now Monday evening here and F1A will start Tuesday, only 12 hours away.
 
The contest on Saturday in the nasty weather was finished after 6 rounds.  All the details are probably on the website, but Russell Peers from Great Britain won F1B with the only clean score.  I don't remember the F1C results, but very few of the original entries chose to fly, maybe 40 out of 100 entered in F1B actually flew and maybe 20 or less flew in F1C.  BTW, there was 119 guys who flew F1A Friday.  After my bull encounter in Argentina Blake asked my how I do in dealing with bears.  Apparently some local guy said that if any of the models end up in the forrests along the hills he can help us retrieve them because he hunts bears there all the time!  Then at our team meeting today we were warned of snakes in the hills as well.  Fun stuff!
 
But if the rest of the week is anything like Sunday and today we have nothing to worry about regarding chasing.  Conditions have been gorgeous.  Totally calm mornings, sometimes lasting into the afternoon, and Sunday was much cooler as well following the cold air on Saturday.  The weather reports show this to continue the rest of the week but with temperatures increasing.  Our main concern is that the conditions the first couple rounds can be extremely difficult with calm down air and few thermals.  There were periods this morning at 9am when the first round begins when models would not stay up.  Steve had a great launch on his long F1A in what seemed like decent air and was on the ground in 90 seconds!  This is like the "tweener" rounds at Lost Hills which sometimes happen around 10am on hot dead days when a glider flyer cannot keep his model in the air only I think it lasts longer here.  We spent the morning studying the different areas of the field to figure out where the air tends to be better developing strategies for the week.
 
Sunday evening was the opening ceremonies which were conducted on a local soccer field.  The event was short and to the point without a lot of fluff, which I think most people were glad for.  The scene was very nice and comfortable with the sun going down over the mountains and a view out over the local town and valley.  No fancy banquet but many were happy with the free beer and stuck around.  It was reported that this is the largest world championships ever held.  They mentioned a number of 565 people, which must include all the supporters as well as flyers but I'm not sure.  There are about teams from Mongolia, China, South Korea, Japan, etc.., as well as the expected strong response from many small european countries.
 
Processing was done today in a local school gym and seemed to be well organized and running ahead of schedule.  There have been hiccups and the organizers mentioned losing a couple of sponsers just days before the events, but overall they seem to be doing well.
Brian asked me if I'll be disappointed if I don't win, but I told him all I care about is making every flight as good as I can possibly make it and then I'll be satisfied.  But my stuff is ready and I'm going to give it everything I have....
 
One last note on journalism - anyone or any publication is welcome to use any or all of my notes if desired as part or any reports or articles.  I don't think Roger will mind.
 
Later, Ken





Best Wishes to Cajuns in Croatia

Roger,

I want to send my best wishes to the Louisiana contingent at the World Champs in Croatia. Don and Richard are excellent modelers and both capable of winning F1C. Good luck to the rest of the United States Team as well.

Ross
Belated Report - Professor Isaenko

Victor Isaenko one of the thought leaders for the modern F1A model passed away on 6 June.

June, 5 he had stroke, when cutting foam for business RC models (he had company called "Impress"). Got to the hospital and didn't come recover consciousness and  passed away next day. Funeral was June, 8 in Kharkov (his home town). March, 3, 2009 was  60. Many people known him more as PROFESSOR and less as ISAENKO.




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Roger Morrell<