This just in from Phil Renaud on who's flying what at the F3B Worlds....
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Steve:
The US Team is flying Estrellas as the primary aircraft. Joe also has a Crossfire and a Europhia but has elected to fly the Estrella for the entire contests. The Estrella is the most popular airplane followed by the Crossfire, Carracho 3000 and a few Europhia's and Race Machines. The Swiss team and the current World Champ (Andreas Boland) are flying Crossfires. Hard to tell the difference in performance between the airplanes. They all have the plus and minuses depending on wind, heavy vs light lift, humidity, etc.
Its a pretty tough contest. We are in a three way battle for 2, 3, and 4th place with the Swedes, US, and Austrians. Looks like the Germans have a lock on first place as a team and Andreas Boland from Switzerland is likely to repeat as World Champ.
With throw outs the US team will end up doing fairly well in thermal duration and distance but we couldn't buy a speed run.
We are planning to fly until about 9:00 PM tonight to finish up Round 6 Duration and Speed. We will then fly Round 6 Distance tomorrow to wrap up the contest. The weather forecast for tomorrow is heavy rain so we may have to finish up on Saturday. If we don't complete round 6 the scores will revert to Round 5 with no throwouts and the US Team would finish in 4th place.
Catch you later,
Phil Renaud
