Results from Finnish Championship competition in Turku. Only one round of Sport-class was flown because of the heavy wind.
Continue reading ‘Results from F3A SM/Cup 1/4 2007, Turku’
25th World Championships for Radio Control Aerobatics F3A will be held in Argentina, at the airport Sauce Viejo near the city of Santa Fe.
Bulletins:
- Bulletin 1
- Bulletin 2 (Added July 5th)
More information at the official homepages of the Championships http://www.argentinaf3a.com/.
Indoor flying and prize-giving event by Finnish Aviation Association is organised in Kuopio. The preliminary date is November 3rd. The plan is to compete in F3P Sport and F3P-AM Aeromusicals classes.
Bulletin for Championship competition in Oulu on June 16-17. More details in the Finnish version of the post.
Nordic Championships 2007 are held in Norsjö, Sweden.
Finnish team:
| FAI | Nordic |
|---|---|
| Lassi Nurila Kimmo Kaukoranta Jani Loikkanen (Vapaa) Erkko Saviaro (Vapaa) Antti Aho-Mantila |
Timo Huhtamäki Kimmo Kärkinen Jooel Kalmari (Vapaa)Raimo Ruokonen |
Bulletins
- Bulletin 1
- Bulletin 2 (Added July 5th)
Links
- Official homepages
- Official discussion forum
Bulletin for the first championship competition in Turku on May 19-20. More details in the Finnish version of the post.
F3A Team Finland’s homepages are updated. The most important feature for non Finnish speakes is that these pages are now also available in English. However, not all stories are yet translated but the work is in progress. At least some sort of summary will be available for every posts on this site.
Pages are now dynamic and everyone can contribute on this site. You only have to register and then start writing stories or uploading your pictures. We are not limited to Finnish related stories so your word is free. Our mission is to gather a good collection of pictures from the aerobatics history which might as well interest people abroad. More information here.
inSkaala is an annual indoor scale model flying event organized by Pietarsaari RC-flying Club (Pietarsaaren Seudun RC-lentäjät). The event is mainly focused on indoor RC scale models but there is a lot of activities around other types of indoor flying. F3P-Sport, Advanced and FAI indoor competitions are flown during the event.
Notice the changed date. The new one is Saturday October 6th. More information at http://www.inskaala.net/english.html.
Results, pictures and videos from Model-Expo exhibition.
- Jooel (15mt)
- Jooel 2 (15mt)
- Kimmo (15mt)
- Kimmo 2 (15mt)
- Pasi (16mt)
- Streamer Show (27mt)
- Topi (13mt)
| F3P-Sport Cup 2007 1/2 | Kierros 1 | Kierros 2 | Kierros 3 | Yhteensä 2/3 | Tulos |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Iiro Lehto | 1 000 | 1 000 | 1 000 | 2 000 | 1 000 |
| 2 | Jani Sipponen | 919 | 1 000 | 978 | 1 978 | 989 |
| 3 | Raimo Ruokonen | 791 | 958 | 935 | 1 893 | 946 |
| 4 | Jarkko Hyttinen | 899 | 825 | 906 | 1 804 | 902 |
| 5 | Joonas Kähkönen | 757 | 839 | 710 | 1 596 | 798 |
| 6 | Lauri Pitkäniemi | 770 | 762 | 819 | 1 589 | 795 |
| 7 | Mika Hämäläinen | 757 | 608 | 732 | 1 489 | 744 |
| 8 | Juhana Suhonen | 642 | 685 | 775 | 1 461 | 730 |
| F3P-AM Cup 2007 1/2 | Kierros 1 | Kierros 2 | Kierros 3 | Yhteensä 2/3 | Tulos |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pasi Kärppä | 1 000 | 1 000 | 1 000 | 2 000 | 1 000 |
| 2 | Kimmo Kaukoranta | 992 | 939 | 920 | 1 931 | 966 |
| 3 | Topi Korhonen | 934 | 948 | 1 882 | 941 |
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| 4 | Jooel Kalmari | 887 | 887 | 990 | 1 877 | 938 |
F3P-Aeromusical competition was organised in Pirkkahalli, Tampere.
| F3P-AM Cup 2006 2/2 | Kierros 1 | Kierros 2 | Kierros 3 | Yhteensä 2/3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Jooel Kalmari | 363 | 1,000 | 1,000 | 2,000 |
| 2. Kimmo Kaukoranta | 1,000 | 975 | 954 | 1,975 |
| 3. Mikko Lehto | 553 | 677 | 738 | 1,414 |
| 4. Pasi Kärppä | 800 | 807 | 756 | 1,607 |
| 5. Topi Korhonen | 712 | 736 | 751 | 1,487 |
ManseFlyIndoor was the biggest indoor happening in 2004 with over 100 pilots and this year it’s going to be even bigger. In addition to F3P-AM You will have plenty of oppotunities to just fly for fun and to participate in other competitions like indoor combat, pylon, scale, etc. There will also be some free flight competitions (F1D, F1M in the morning) and Ilmailuliitto will present the awards for the Finnish Championships in all aeromodelling classes in the evening. Only one day but around 10 hours of RC-flying.
More information at http://indoor.tuu.fi/.
ModelExpo 2007 is the biggest modeling exhibition in Finland and there will be one hall dedicated to indoor flying. The exhibition will be from Friday to Sunday and the F3P-AM competition will take place on Saturday. More information about the contest later.
There will be other competitions and shows as well during the event held at Helsinki Fair Centre from March 30th to April 1st. More information at http://www.model-expo.com.
inSkaala is an annual indoor scale model flying event organized by Pietarsaari RC-flying Club (Pietarsaaren Seudun RC-lentäjät). The event was focused on indoor RC scale models but there were a lot of activities around other types of indoor flying. F3P-Sport and Advanced indoor competitions are flown during the event.
There were four Finnish Champion competitions in the season 2006. In addition there were many Cup-series. For F3A we had Cup-competitions for Nordic and Sport-classes. F3P (indoor) Cups were organised for Aeromusical, F3P-Sport and F3P-Advanced classes.
Results from the last competition of the season 2006 held in Kokkola.
Continue reading ‘Results from F3A SM/Cup 4/4 2006, Kokkola’
13th F3A European Championship was held at Buochs (near Luzern) in Switzerland, from August 26th to 2nd of September 2006.
F3A Team Finland participated in the Championships with a team of two pilots, Kimmo Kaukoranta and Lassi Nurila, and team manager Juho Karppinen. We provided some “live” coverage from the location in means of pictures and stories.
The official homepage of the Championships is a reference point for all official information such as bulletins and results. Other places for discussion are for example Lennokit.net (in Finnish) and RCUniverse. If you have a good link to add here, please drop an e-mail [email: juho.karppinen #AT# iki.fi ] or use contact form.
10 best pilots continued their fight for the title of European Champion. The day consisted of two F07 final programs and two unknown schedules.
Final results:
- Christophe Paysant-Le Roux (FRA)
- Roland Matt (LIE)
- Sebastiano Silvestri (ITA)
- Gerhard Mayr (AUT)
- Wolfgang Matt (LIE)
- Benoît Paysant-Le Roux (FRA)
- Bernhard Schaden (SUI)
- Marc Rubin (SUI)
- Markus Zeiner (AUT)
- Helmut Danksagmueller (AUT)
The banquet was held at 1900 meters altitude at Mount Stanserhorn. Pictures by Juho Karppinen.
19 best pilots out of 59 competitors took part in semifinal rounds. Two F07 programs were flown and based on the results 10 pilots are going into finals.
Participants in order of preliminary results and their equipment:
- MATT Roland LIE – Beryll + Hacker C50 XL Comp
- PAYSANT-LE ROUX Christophe FRA – Oxalys + YS170DZ
- SILVESTRI Sebastiano ITA – Angel S + Hacker C50 XL Comp
- PAYSANT-LE ROUX Benoît FRA – Oxalys + YS170DZ
- CARRIER Stéphane FRA – Oxalys + YS170DZ
- MATT Wolfgang LIE – Beryll + Hacker C50 XL Comp
- ZEINER Markus AUT – Impression – YS160DZ
- DANKSAGMUELLER Helmut AUT – Pinnacle + YS160DZ
- WISSINGER Markus GER – Own design/manufacturing “Dream Theater II” + Hacker C50 XL Comp
- MAYR Gerhard AUT – Own design/manufacturing “Daggrom” + YS160DZ
- RUBIN Marc SUI – Onyx + Hacker C50 XL Comp
- BRESCI Andrea ITA- Impression + YS160DZ
- SCHADEN Bernhard SUI – Twister + YS170DZ
- LAMMEL Christian GER – Impression + Hacker C50 XL Comp
- PRAT Isaac ESP – Angel’s Shadow E + Hacker C50 15XL
- FREMMING Ola NOR – Oxalys + OS140RX-EFI
- GRASSELLI Andrea ITA – Impact + Hacker C50 XL Comp
- ULSAMER Günther GER – Excalibur + Hacker C50 XL Comp
- MARQUET Philippe BEL – Beryll + Hacker C50 XL Comp
The day was dramatical. Stephane Carrier from France lost both of his Oxalys planes because of radio interference problems. His planes went into fail-safe mode on both of his semifinal flights and crashed uncontrolled into ground. Very sad incident because he flew very well and would have definitely managed to go into finals.
In addition to F3A flying, there were nice show flights during the lunch brake. The show included a jet with turbine motor, gliders with 6m wingspan starting both with electric motors and aerotowing, and 3m Katana-s with 4 electric motors plus huge pack of lipos. In addition we saw a depron plane which can fly both forward and backward. Photos by Juho Karppinen.
The fourth and the last preliminary round. The weather was much better but very cold. Even some snow had been raining on top of near mountains creating true Alpine landscape.
Our day started early since Lassi’s turn was third and the round started at 7.00am. It was dark when we started assemblying planes on the airfield. But the sunrise looked great with white mountains on the background. Photographer Juho Karppinen.
