BERG was represeted by this happy bunch of modelling maniacs: Piet, Evan and I did us proud taking a fair portion of the prizes - with our Piet flying his mielie off to win the prestigious Victor Ludorum.
The ETB field was in excellent condition, the organising committee did a fantastic job but unfortunately the weather just didn't co-operate. We Managed to get some reasonable flying in on the first day, got rained on a little on the second and third day and just had to give up on the last day.
Windy weather resulted in very challenging conditions for the 2m, F5J and especially the F3K class models.
F3B scenes: always good fun for serious and not so serious competitors - even had some F3J models having a go.
Left, as big a smile as you'll ever get from this guy: Dion with his Crossfire after his blistering 15.9 second speed run. Below, me launching Estrella.
Day four dawned and contestants arrived at a really soggy field. Michelle set up a winch to test the conditions. Her model zoomed into cloud cover! We found a dryish patch of grass upfield to complete F3K and called off the rest of the contest.
Prizegiving: Evan got a certificate for F3B CD, Alan Smith F3K champ and I managed third place in 2 meter.
And on the left, our club superduperhero, Piet Rheeders: Winner of the prestigious Victor Ludorum trophy:
1st place RES100
2nd place F5J
4th place 2M
10th place F3B
12th place Open Thermal
Got to get you into F3K, Piet.
And sorry Piet, just not enough blog space left to show you receiving all your prizes so I've had to overlay all your pictures :-)
1 comment:
Nice post Derek,once I am in F3k and on a srick diet you will be able to post me side by side (ie. in 2020)
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