F3P in N-Ireland

Donatas has kindly shared this video of his  2009 Deluxe plane. This is a 1m plane and as you can see flying the French National F3P schedule in a small gym is very achievable.

Plans for F3P AM style planes ,

Thanks to the designers for sharing these Free plans,

Its been long time, but finally Arrow V3 returns, bigger and better!!!

This video to shows you what 4D flying is all about ! ENJOY !

The Arrow is now available as a plan and instruction manual

Arrow V3 is Back!!! from Donatas Pauzuolis on Vimeo.

Visit Donata’s site to get the plans.

If you fly Spektrum, like so many indoor pilots do, have a look here to make sure you don’t suffer from the wigglies.

This is no excuse when it comes to flying. Next time you exhibit strange maneuvres, the excuse that ‘it’s me sticks’ will not be tolerated!
(of course it totally depends on how you interpret the above message, but we’ll not go there)

Northern Ireland F3P-A and B Schedule for 2009
(This is not the official FAI F3P-A schedule!)

Due to hall sizes and safety issues we are unable to fly the FAI schedule. Therefore we have adopted the schedule flown by other European countries.

B Schedule

A Schedule

or, have a look at the video’s on the van der Vecht’s site:

Niels Rijkhoff flying the B Schedule

Derk v d Vecht flying the A Schedule

First news from the competition: Top 3 in each class;

F3P-AM

1.Donatas Pauzuolis
2.Vitalijus Pilkionis
3.Richard Boyd

F3P-A

1.Donatas Pauzuolis
2.Vitalijus Pilkionis
3.Richard Boyd

F3P-B
1.Ricardas Siumbrys
2.Ignas Matulevicius
3.Danyl Pilaev

Pylon race

1.Ricardas Siumbrys
2.Vitalijus Pilkionis
3.Ilja Voronov

First pics: here

Most up to date: is the RCGroups Forum

Looks like others are copying our potato mashers:

Jason Noll’s Seminoll.

And do I see a wiff of nostalgia: The anhedral in the stab reminds me of Hanno Pretner’s Curare.

(source: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=971117 )

After a long and successful season for my dad and I the last trip we planned to make was a journey over Leeds for the first UK mainland F3P competition. This competition followed on from the success of the first UK F3P event’s held in Northern Ireland, last December in Lisburn and last March in Dungannon. The build up to Leeds has been ongoing since the dates were announced during the summer so it was gearing up for a big competition.

Additional pictures on the Kestrels site.

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Wall-halla was a great succes. Here are some movies from the Dutch Wall-Halla 2008 Show. (From Patrick de Vos, Airfighter Club Gorkum)

Air Figther Club

Jurgen Heilig has posted more pics on his blog. Always worth a looksee..

First 2 long video’s from Corne, (see Youtube for his other work, he just posted a nice airbrush video.)

Rest of the video’s from Patrick

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Richard McMaster's Su 31

This is ExpressFly Richards design. If you pester him enough he might let you have one too…
The impressive paintwork is Richard McMaster’s own handywork, so you might want to ask him how he does it. (I know, it’s simple, all you need is a bit of patience)

F3P – C Results

1st Place Richard McMaster – Northern Ieland
2nd Place Connor Stephenson – Our Local lad from Leeds
3rd Place Harry Reid – Northern Ireland

F3P – B Results

1st Place : Ollie Witt
2nd Place : Martin Bell
3rd Place : Graham Roscoe

F3P-A Results

1st Place : Carl Ollson – Sweden
2nd Place : Ian Watson
3rd Place : Matthew Poots – Northern Ireland

Matthew's Clik! with Potato mashers.

Aeromuscial Results
1st Place: Ollie Witt
2nd Place: Carl Ollson – Sweden
3rd Place: Malcom Balfour – Scotland

3DRC has more, keep an eye on it as I’m sure more pics and video’s will appear. (Competition Flying > F3P UK Indoor Flying Champs > YouTube Vids.)