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7th League Event
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4th July - Festival of Electric Speed MIddle Wallop

The 3rd and 4th of July saw the 2nd Festival of Electrric Speed organised by the UK F5D A at the Middle Wallop Army Air Corps.  Where we saw speeds up to 425kph!!!

 

This year saw international attendance in the form of serious F5S speedster, Michael Jakob from Germany flying his Eagle with 10kW+.  The Saturday was spent with the speedsters practicing and the organisers fine tuning the electronic timing equipment.  On Sunday, the weather had taken a turn for the worst with gusts up to 40mph.  This didn't seem to bother the speedsters and was more of a problem for us, the organisers, as we had to battern down everything to stop pylons from falling over and gazibos from taking flight.  In the end the electronic system worked well and the results were as follows:

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F5D is faster than F3D

Here's a short video from Wings and Wheels 2010.

The BMPRA were lucky enough to have a stand and some flying slots, so we put both an F5D and F3D model up at the same time to entertain the crowds.

I think that out of a dive F5D is significantly faster, but doing the short laps they were about the same, which if you consider how the tuned pipes and electric motors work makes some sense.

 
Video - Barkston June 2010
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1st League Event 2010 Wittering

 

1st Darron Rodrigues 100%
2nd Rob Ashley-Roche 71%
3rd Tony Wilson 70%
4th John Heffer 65%
5th Ollie Witt 40%
6th Joe Harvey 35%

Hi Race fans, we are back after a long wet old winter and kicked the first F5D event off of 2010 in beautiful sunshine and with full size gliders circling all around us catching thermals all day.

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