The 2008 German Open F3K is over....and the USA took 2nd!
North Carolina's own Oleg Golovidov (TD guy turned F3K) battled his way
into the fly-off and then put the hammer down to finish in 2nd.
Phil Barnes also made the fly-off and finished in 8th overall.
Bret Carr (Jeff's son) took 6th in the Junior category!
Other US participants (who didn't make the flyoffs):
20th - Paul Anderson
31st - Bruce Davidson
33rd - Adam Weston
58th - Jeff Carr
96th - Brett Carr
97th - Chris Adams
That's out of 112 participants. Someone (who shall remain nameless) at
the US F3K NATS said to me "they have 112 people at a *handlaunch*
contest?" "Yes, (name), handlaunch is popular everywhere else in the
world except the US Nationals".
There's a good reason why 8 (almost 10) of our top pilots went to
Germany instead of the NATS - though it might have been the draught beer
on tap on the field! (When can we get that at Muncie?)
Bunches of Photos and such:
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=899115&page=2
Results
Pre-Flyoffs: http://www.mcm-muenchen.com/wettbewerbe/F3KResult.pdf
Junior (18-) Flyoffs:
http://www.mcm-muenchen.com/wettbewerbe/F3KFlyOffJunior.pdf
Senior (18+) Flyoffs:
http://www.mcm-muenchen.com/wettbewerbe/F3KFlyOffSenior.pdf
Way to go Team USA! Keep it up for F3K in 2010? 2011? 2012?
Ben Wilson wrote:
The German F3K Open is currently going on *right now* and a good group
of handlaunch pilots from the US are over in Munich battling it out.
Right now, Oleg Golovidov and Phil Barnes are 6th and 9th after 9
rounds. Heavy hitters Paul Anderson and Louisville's own Bruce
Davidson are in 19th and 26th.
See, people will actually travel to a handlaunch contest... if it's
more than a day long :)
Scores and such can be found here, scroll down to Results:
http://www.mcm-muenchen.com/
Couple of RCGroups threads:
Oleg's Day 1 Recap
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showpost.php?p=10217854&postcount=7
Mike Seid's Day 1 Recap:
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showpost.php?p=10219469&postcount=12
More reports and photos:
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=898686
FlyQuiet UK Thread:
http://www.flyquiet.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=1201.0
See y'all tomorrow in Muncie!
Ben
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