Half of our team arrived here in Denmark Thursday afternoon (Dave + Summer Fisher & TM Julie Fisher), driving with all of the team’s helicopters (8 in total) plus generators, lipos and charging gear. Stu Smith and Duncan arrived late last night (Friday) having flown into Billund airport (1.5 hours drive from our accommodation). We … Read More
International Team News
2024 European F3N Championships, Aabenraa, Denmark. Day 1, 2 & 3.
2024 European F3C Championships, Aabenraa, Denmark. Day 1 & 2.
Day one of the F3CN European Championships is in the books. Today consisted of official practice, model processing and the official opening ceremony of the championships. The GBR F3C team were up at 8.30 for official practice and all went well. The wind was still blowing hard, but if was certainly slightly less than it … Read More
2024 F4 Scale World Championships Day 3 report
First Team Managers meeting of the championships today and it won’t surprise scale championship veterans that organisation of the event has been taken over by the exceptionally capable Pål Anthonisen. From a competitor’s point of view this is very welcome, the plan slightly changes but is easy enough to cope with. At the Team Managers … Read More
2024 European F3CN Championships, Aabenraa, Denmark. Prelim Report
T-1 day until the F3CN European Championships begin. F3CN is a joint category with both F3C (precision helicopter aerobatics) and F3N (freestyle helicopter aerobatics) flying at the same site during the same championships. The 2024 European F3CN Championships are being held in Aabenraa, Denmark at the fabulous RC Parken model flying club. RC Parken has … Read More
2024 F4 Scale World Championships Day 2 report
Despite the disappointment of not having models, we ended up having a rather good day enviously watching our fellow competitor’s practice flights and seeing the hanger fill with world class models. We still haven’t got our models out of customs but Steffen from the Romanian NAC spent over 2 1/2 hours and at least 2 … Read More
2024 F4 Scale World Championships Day 1 report
The theme for day 1 has been models held in customs, we’ve been aware of the hold up from midday on the day before travelling. Confident that we could find a solution we carried on packing our bags and preparing to travel. Our personal travel plans all went reasonably well, minor delays and queues for … Read More
Free Flight European Championships, Romania Report – Tuesday 23rd July
First day of competition. Our three man team is ready to go. Bill, John and Richard have their gliders at the ready. Fog delayed the start for a short while but comp started at 7.15, A seven round competition we started on pole 3. Every one maxed the first round but on subsequent rounds everyone dropped, very … Read More
GBR F3A Aerobatics European Championships report 1, Belgium
The UK Team of Malcolm Balfour, Brandon Ransley and Thomas David alond with Team Manager Adrian Harrison are in Sivry Belgium competing in the F3A European Championships. There are 60 competitors and the standards are extremely high. Each pilot within the Team has now completed two competition flights in a mixture of conditions from calm … Read More
Free Flight European Championships, Romania. Daily Reports 21st- 22nd July
7am – Further torrential rain has brought chaos to the competition this morning. Competitors are here eager to fly , but conditions are very poor. Most of us are sheltering in cars or under gazebos. Waterproof clothing is the required attire today 9am – Competition postponed until midday due to conditions. 11am – Returned to the field after 11am … Read More
Free Flight European Championships, Romania. Daily Reports 18th – 20th July
Those of us travelling by Whizz Air on the 8.10 am flight to Cluj-Napoca met up at Luton Airport in the early hours of the morning. Numerous large boxes were deposited at the over size luggage desk and we made our way through all the checks. Boarding was quick as soon as we were called, and although … Read More