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Written by Scorian
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The morning of Sunday 8th August found us again in a remote corner of RAF Wittering, staring at almost perfect weather conditions. Wind was around 5 knots from the north west, with blue skies, scattered clouds and a few full sized gliders to keep us on our toes. We had a mixed entry in F5d of 6 pilots, 2 regulars, 2 nubies and 2 F5d virgins to keep us entertained. However, it should be noted that the F5d virgins were not innocents, being Ali Machinchy and Duncan Horlor!
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Written by Darron Rodrigues
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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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Written by Rob Ashley-Roche
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| 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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Written by Rob Ashley-Roche
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My Alarm clock started beeping at 3.00am Friday the 23rd October 2009 and I remember thinking I hate whoever it was that talked me into going to this German F5D event!
I had moved on to hating the World by the time Mark turned up at 3.30 am, but by 6.30am when we picked up Olli and Paul at Dover and I had moved towards thinking we all must be barking mad?
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Written by Rob Ashley-Roche
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 It’s been a long flying season with 9 events planned for 2009; unfortunately due to the good old British weather 2 have been cancelled so far leaving 4th of October 09 the date for the final and 7th event of the year. With 2009 being the team selection year for the UK F5D team to compete in the World Champs during 2010 it has been quite a year for UK F5D with records being broken as well as models in an effort to make the team.
The first 2 team places are already secured however 3rd is still up for grabs as Olli Witt failed to close the door at the last event on Ben Jones who is very much on Olli’s heals and improving at each event making this more than just another League event.
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