The 2011 championships are over, and Christophe once again came out on top, with Onda as close as possible behind him (the semi-final scores settled it, as they won two final rounds each) and Andrew Jesky in third place. Ola Fremming, our top man became 21th, and Alex Heindel in 31th place. Also on the Norwegian team was Henning Jorkjend who took this picture, but could not fly because his plane was damaged by fire in the opening round.
The 2011 NC is underway in Finland. Norwegian F3A team member Henning Jorkjend has sent som photos from the first day of flying. Pictures are here, and the results are online.
24 pilots came to do battle in the second Norwegian cup contest of the 2010 season. With the unexpected high turnout we could only manage three rounds for all three classes (F3A, Nordic 09 and Sport 07) but we had a great contest with sunny warm weather and a great social event on saturday.
Particularly positive was the fact that we had a lot of debutants this year, in all classes. In Nordic and sport in particular, many were either first timers in contests or had advanced from last year. Former Vingtor boss Audun Thinn has done a great job coaching juniors for many years and his protege Kristoffer Rosmo from Vingtor flew convincingly and came third in Sport.
It was my first ever contest in the F3A class and I came in 13 place (out of 14), barely managing to hold a fellow F3A debutant behind me on the scoreboard but hey – I’m flying F3A in contests! To be able to say that means I have finally reached the goal I set for myself more than 20 years ago. How about that. Fear not though, if you are a rookie, don’t fly at home like I did all those years. Come to a contest to see how it’s done and you could be in F3A in just a couple of years.
Here are pictures from the event and a small video I’ve stitched together.
Here’s a short sequence showing some of the planes of the day. In 2005 I still flew the Calypso in the Nordic schedule. In the video you can see an Impulse, Temptation, Synergy 50 and many more.
Here’s Kjell Tore Pettersen flying his trusty old Giles 202 during the 2005 Jarlsberg cup contenst. (Sorry I did not film the entire sequence). The plane is most likely built from Gator R/C plans which were popular in the early 00′s. The Giles is pretty big and is equipped with retracts and an O.S. 1.40 RX and pipe which was pretty much what everybody ran back in those days. I can’t belive it’s been five years.
Here’s video of the 2005 Jarlsberg Cup, which is close to five years ago at the time of posting. That’s almost retro compared to today. Nobody was flying electric, OS 140 RX was the norm and the really spectacular equipment of the day were digital servos, Jaccio regulators and the mighty YS 140 DZ “Dingo” – as Bernt Olsson flies here in his Smaragd, the famous Wolfgang and Roland Matt model. Enjoy.
Fooling around with windows movie maker and windows sample music. Fun. pictures are from this summers Løten Cup, flying F3A, Nordic and a schedule we call Sport-07
A great video by Audun Thinn from this years Norwegian F3A nationals. Vingtor R/C Club hosted the event and the contest boasted three days of perfect flying weather at Hvam, northeast of Oslo. A larger size video can be seen on Youtube.
A fantastic weekend at this years Løten cup. We had the best weather ever, and it was really hot. Sadly two pilots lost their planes but both pilots are motivated to fly again and get new projects into the air. I flew the red Laser and it performed very well but a lot of practice is required to be able to stay out of the bottom half of the scoreboard. See pictures from the event here
One seriously perfect contest day at Vingtors field at Kråkstad, may 30 2009. We flew Nordic N-09 and Sport-07 which is our current entry-level schedule. Henning Jordkjend Organized the event and everything went really smoothly and we finished ahead schedule. Apart from Tore Jemtegaard having problems taking off in the tall grass there was not a single incident. I came in 6th out of 8 pilots in Nordic which I’m very satisfied with, considering I have not practiced at all this year. The Laser performed well during all three rounds but I realize it needs a little more power. Pipe tuning is next, after I have finished it’s evil twin, the Blue OS 200FS powered Laser. Ola Fremming won the event, flying with a 0.85 point handicap.
See pictures from the event on Flickr.