F3B WC 2011 Update #4

Already checked-in teams; Australia, China, Czech Republic, Hong-Kong, France, Japan, Russia, South Africa and USA. Hopefuly I didn’t miss anybody. I was asking organizer to provide exact GPS coordinates, complete picture set from airfield area and near surroundings. I insist on this and they are aware. I was asking organizer to send personal letter […]

Stinger from VV model

Vaclav Vojtisek aka VVmodel has just released some info about new model. F3B/F3F Stinger is last in his line of well known Sting, NewSting, BigSting, Viking, Ascot and Dingo. I should have chance to touch it very soon.

Model has some state-of-the-art attributes; high aspect ratio, low camber, low airfoil thickness etc. Let’s see what […]

F3B WC 2011 update #3

Trying to carefully evaluate what from “behind curtain” to publish here. Hopefully text of this letter will give you another feeling of whole matter. Seems to me Chinese org. team made huge mistake when underestimating communication to all involved people. As I already mentioned, this substantially changed.

Read on…

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F3B WC 2011 update #2

Another 4 hours net session. When Yiwen got my 1328 points To-Do List, for long 10 minutes no response from Beijing. No wonder, I would be also perplexed.

Lei Wang (COC and Chinese FAI delegate) is leaving this weekend to Laiwu, we should have detailed information next week. GPS coordinates of airfield are not yet […]

Awakening? F3B WC 2011 update

If anything else, my resignation led to big communication storm. Twister started last Friday (18-th February) and was initiated by FAI CIAM president Bob Skinner and continued by FAI General Secretary Stéphane Desprez. Other VIPs were involved.

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F3B WC 2011 in China? Not my cup of tea

For me it’s painful decision. Really, I was looking forward to meet all my friends at another F3B World Championship. This year it should be held in China. Unfortunately, after definitely weird style of communication I gave up. This is already not my cup of tea.

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F3B Lunen 2010

Always looking forward to Lunen Friday, when comming after bloody long journey and finding Peter standing behind bier tap. Also meeting old friends is pleasant. Peter Hubbertz and his friends made nice, smooth and fast running competiton. We had even good luck with weather; no rain. Should be smooth if more than 80 pilots […]