FFWC FIG Power CLEAR SKIES setting moon greeted predawn arrival airfield second day championships ready test air FiC Power battles store feet fingers bit frost grass confirmed cold first light sound engines filled air inevitable last-minute check flights could seen Above approximately 80 ft wind shear present fair amount drift prevailing southwesterly direc tion power patterns showed flatter deflection passing through shear line flattening climb Comprising US team Ken Phair placed 14th Livno 1985 won Seguin 1988 Team Finals Randy Archer 1987 World Cup 1989 Max Men International winner big Doug Galbreath wily motor man fly ing fifth World Championships team looked superb during practice setting altitude standards other nations fliers emulate Aluminum-foil-covered FtC models majority year Evidently really dangerous competitors following Verbitskis other Russians lead began using thin metal-over-balsa construction techniques 1970s Americans used sys tem exclusively no secret Randy Archer looked especially strong high consistent climbs smooth bunt pullouts made him pregame favorite upset Russian Four Strukov Mukhin Korban FiC team Eugene Verbitskithe latter ever friendly proudly defending hard-fought highly popular 1987 victory France Chinese also expected strong contenders Italians Poles French Hungarians Three-time Champ Thomas Koster Denmark always brings some exciting ideas design equipment found contest field year flapper saw met its unfor tunate demise check flight before start Round quite literally being blown apart RC dethermalizer control ton pushed too early nosedown position after overbunting guilty party shall remain forever nameless al though Thomas could heard muttering something about instant divorce went collect bits pieces Thomas seems have set aside Excalibur all68 Model Aviation Alexander Mukhin USSR flew excellent 4th place second World Championship row FlA Nordic Champ Andres Lepp USSR can seen background holding backup plane Ken Phair US sets out Power ships during processing Ken plagued bad luck first collision prac tice flight 140-sec stall ground competition Doug Galbreaths US models visible foreground Three-time Champ Thomas Koster Den mark launching ships test flight flapper seen competition met unfortunate fate being test flown Henning Nyhegn fellow Dane holding tach Thomas Argentinas top FiC flier Mauricio Zito launches plane flight landed him 28th place Mauricic did double duty filling job assistant general director Left Alain Roux France showing off F4815 fleet Verbitski-type-43 models has building since the 1987 World Championships Alain flew bird very respectable 10th place Above beautiful Power ship built flown Hans Stetz FR Germany stick-and-tissue plane make flyoffs Unfortunately suffered stall-to-the-ground flight 215 seconds Mr Stetz still garnered 13th place plastic molded FiG design favor Verbitski-style models certainly flying very well cant beat em join em eh Thomas venerable Verbitski stacking new Long BE-49 golden ship proved wasnt infallible casualty solidified Verbitskis decision fly BE-43 1987 winner American camp its trou bles too just few minutes go before starting siren Ken Phair launched check flight collided other gliding model Kens bird de stroyed other plane rocked little continued its way seemingly undam aged man US made best itset up another ship said planned use case Round 1 began usual flurry ac tivity Everyone seemed anxious get flight early Doug Galbreath fired up hot Nelson engine V-Max dihedral tiplet design has successfully develop ing Ken Oliver Though Dougs launch looked fine shear 80 ft flat tened climb just enough cause overbunt condition lost some altitude stalled first minute before finally flat tening out beautiful glide still high enough make four minutes some spare Breathing somewhat easier after first max books Randy Archer put picture-perfect flight score second max different story Ken Phair rough day continued right first flight After excellent climb Continued page 165 THE THIRD MORNING competition slated FiB Wakefield dawned clear calm quite cool day before organizers watchful con cerned provide best possible condi tions competition announced rounds would shortened 45 min utes light fact usual winds would almost surely crease afternoon Wakefields gen erally affected wind heavier Nordic Power models Obvi ously wise decision though retrieval teams reporters would kept quite busy Flying commenced promptly start Round 1 Giovannetti Chile hav ing first-in-air honors Unfortunately Giovannetti since first World Champs encountered turbulent wind shear layer suffered bad power stall clocking disappointing 81 sec Next up Reiner Hofsass Germany new Espada also suffered slight power stall After great victory Livno 1985 Hofsass has built new mod els wings solid Rohacell foam cov ered light Kevlar outfitted carbon spars tips plug onepiece dihedraled center panels airfoil patterned after Bob White section ad mired quite thin some upsweep wings stronger seemed handle higher launch speed October 1989 69 Left Xian Wang Peoples Republic China launches Power ship flight landed him solid 6th place 326-second flight six-minute flyoff teammate Li Anxin placed 7th right behind him Back 1985 Xian placed 5th World Championships Livno Right Flying USSR V Strukov model placed 8th Eugene Verbitski 3rd-place winner observe test flight Sunday morning several other contestants waiting cold damp low-lying mist evaporate before starting flyoffs FFWC FIB Rubber Left Jimmy intrepid interpreter Chinese team holding magnificent Waketields instrumental once again enabling win Fl B team prize Right Wenyi Zhang left flew 9th place total score 1287 Zhaoyi Zeng right won 5th place flight 192 seconds four-minute flyotf Both fliers instrumental helping Chinese team well Glider set up ready second tempt flier waited ground few seconds catching breath hoping last-ditch thermal Dale went straight up off glide disappointing 70-sec time 14th place gallant try situations frequently become bit lottery year no exception first flyoff couldnt help ob serve best times returned fliers launched southern end flight line field either over longer pampas grass just downwind stubblefield Reigning World Champ Victor Tchop brought VT-38 intrepid Glider hed captured gold 87 France 88 European Champion ships Yugoslavia flown day obvious success 230-sec time flyoff however Tchop 10 sec short needed total defend ti tle Flying first world event Nuttgens did himself Germany credit near end round score 227 put him seventh place New Zealands Malcolm Sexton attempted max Lepps thermal unable center came landing 212 sec Five 15 fliers maxed awaiting return Gliders downwind brisk wind re trieval went smoothly fields good chasing no faced either pro longed waiting undue grief un mowed grass made generally soft forgiving landings few punctured model coverings worry about five-minute flyoff would decisive round found lift conditions less unchanged sirens sounding Andres Lepp position southernmost among five remain ing flight stations again began towing An dres AL-37 seemed unerringly tune tested air together Sens ing apparent thermal tension circled downwind once twice pausing mas terfully sidestep somewhat out control rival model Russian maintained su preme control seemed always keenly aware situation hand After last circle tow downwind make sure air Andres zoom launched spiraling up left-handed open climb recov ery perfect None other fliers position reach Andres air As AL-37 soared away what looked surefire max everyone else searched fruitlessly lift Andres sat launched watch ing entire flight daring hope hed remain unchallenged became obvious no rival maxes off ing Eugene Verbitski rushed congratu late Andres Together two Russians walked back crowd friends ad mirers flight line rising swell applause cheering Andres beam ing ear ear pride happiness Eugene shook hand bear hugged him Nordic flier has contrib uted much FlA come close winning least twice before fully deserved victory FFWC FiC Power/Hines Continued page 69 seemingly good recovery Kens model stalled ground 140 seconds virtually killed chance team prize Ken wasnt flier experiencing some problems Dave Sugden Canada Dick Johnson Roger Baggott Great Bri tam Gunnar Agren Sweden among others didnt max Out 48 competitors 33 achieved fourminute max midway through Round 2 wind shear stoppedbut wind gusts settling usual southwest erly direction earlier previous day wind cold needed extra layers clothing just keep warm Conditions worsened rounds progressed power patterns deteriorated buffeting turbulence trying harsh conditions brought fliers scores way down caused several crashes wind speed gusting near nine-meters-per-second limit nearly impossible detect small ther mals let alone start engine launch time Argentinas Mauricio Zito much home-field advantage anyone doing very well until dropped sixth round error Round 6 fact statistically worst 26 maxes 18 drops Despite sorry sixth round two teams still retained full scoresthe Poles Rus sians Jan Ochman Poland unlucky exciting seventh round managing 143 sec deserving Soviet team maxed out win four seconds over Chinese put flyoff Randy Archer meantime fly ing very well albeit couple squeak ers US team member make flyoff Doug Ken both plagued stalled flights drops last-gasp crash punctuating things Ken interest achieving sporting re sult' making allowances wind organizing committee postponed flyoffs until Sunday morning relief almost everyone spoke lucky 13 maxed out walked off Aerodromo La Cruz field earlier expectedwith two-night bonus think over strategies home stretch FFWC Fl B Rubber/Hines Continued page 70 seconds Fully half 74 fliers made max some notable exceptions Ben Itzhak Israel 1979 FlB victor gar EASY AS 1-2-3 Instructional Videotapes HOW TO VACUUM BAG FIBERGLASS WINGS AND WHERE TO BUY MATERIALS AND MAKING FIBERGLASS MOLDS otapes give ABCs making fiberglass molds wings what equipment material will need tapes allow manufac hire mosty fibergiass part technique CUTTING FOAM CORES AND MAKING TEM PLATES rs step-by-step technique foam wings plans Automatic Hands Off Foam cutter will give Shaip Tmiling Edges will given videotape Bonus DRAWING PLANS & PHOTOS FOR BAT TERY POWERED BUBBLE BLOWER le Blower puts outs million bubbles Its ap plication study thennals great Hand Launch Thennal flying PRICING HOW TO VACUUM BAG3495 Shipping MAKING MOLDS3495 Shipping CUTIING FOAM CORES3495 Shipping BAI1TERY BUBBLE BLOWER PLANS699 Available VHS & BETA Texas residents add 8% sates tax Pricing Subject Change Without Notice IoIk RfrCo o 1/4 Scale Kits $12995 Epoxy/Glass/Foam construction Drawingi Data Formula 120 Pylon Sport Standoff ScaleKit Price ping Credit Cards WelcomedOhio Residents Add 7% October 1989 165 Picture Worth Thousand Words
Edition: Model Aviation - 1989/10
Page Numbers: 68, 69, 165
FFWC FIG Power CLEAR SKIES setting moon greeted predawn arrival airfield second day championships ready test air FiC Power battles store feet fingers bit frost grass confirmed cold first light sound engines filled air inevitable last-minute check flights could seen Above approximately 80 ft wind shear present fair amount drift prevailing southwesterly direc tion power patterns showed flatter deflection passing through shear line flattening climb Comprising US team Ken Phair placed 14th Livno 1985 won Seguin 1988 Team Finals Randy Archer 1987 World Cup 1989 Max Men International winner big Doug Galbreath wily motor man fly ing fifth World Championships team looked superb during practice setting altitude standards other nations fliers emulate Aluminum-foil-covered FtC models majority year Evidently really dangerous competitors following Verbitskis other Russians lead began using thin metal-over-balsa construction techniques 1970s Americans used sys tem exclusively no secret Randy Archer looked especially strong high consistent climbs smooth bunt pullouts made him pregame favorite upset Russian Four Strukov Mukhin Korban FiC team Eugene Verbitskithe latter ever friendly proudly defending hard-fought highly popular 1987 victory France Chinese also expected strong contenders Italians Poles French Hungarians Three-time Champ Thomas Koster Denmark always brings some exciting ideas design equipment found contest field year flapper saw met its unfor tunate demise check flight before start Round quite literally being blown apart RC dethermalizer control ton pushed too early nosedown position after overbunting guilty party shall remain forever nameless al though Thomas could heard muttering something about instant divorce went collect bits pieces Thomas seems have set aside Excalibur all68 Model Aviation Alexander Mukhin USSR flew excellent 4th place second World Championship row FlA Nordic Champ Andres Lepp USSR can seen background holding backup plane Ken Phair US sets out Power ships during processing Ken plagued bad luck first collision prac tice flight 140-sec stall ground competition Doug Galbreaths US models visible foreground Three-time Champ Thomas Koster Den mark launching ships test flight flapper seen competition met unfortunate fate being test flown Henning Nyhegn fellow Dane holding tach Thomas Argentinas top FiC flier Mauricio Zito launches plane flight landed him 28th place Mauricic did double duty filling job assistant general director Left Alain Roux France showing off F4815 fleet Verbitski-type-43 models has building since the 1987 World Championships Alain flew bird very respectable 10th place Above beautiful Power ship built flown Hans Stetz FR Germany stick-and-tissue plane make flyoffs Unfortunately suffered stall-to-the-ground flight 215 seconds Mr Stetz still garnered 13th place plastic molded FiG design favor Verbitski-style models certainly flying very well cant beat em join em eh Thomas venerable Verbitski stacking new Long BE-49 golden ship proved wasnt infallible casualty solidified Verbitskis decision fly BE-43 1987 winner American camp its trou bles too just few minutes go before starting siren Ken Phair launched check flight collided other gliding model Kens bird de stroyed other plane rocked little continued its way seemingly undam aged man US made best itset up another ship said planned use case Round 1 began usual flurry ac tivity Everyone seemed anxious get flight early Doug Galbreath fired up hot Nelson engine V-Max dihedral tiplet design has successfully develop ing Ken Oliver Though Dougs launch looked fine shear 80 ft flat tened climb just enough cause overbunt condition lost some altitude stalled first minute before finally flat tening out beautiful glide still high enough make four minutes some spare Breathing somewhat easier after first max books Randy Archer put picture-perfect flight score second max different story Ken Phair rough day continued right first flight After excellent climb Continued page 165 THE THIRD MORNING competition slated FiB Wakefield dawned clear calm quite cool day before organizers watchful con cerned provide best possible condi tions competition announced rounds would shortened 45 min utes light fact usual winds would almost surely crease afternoon Wakefields gen erally affected wind heavier Nordic Power models Obvi ously wise decision though retrieval teams reporters would kept quite busy Flying commenced promptly start Round 1 Giovannetti Chile hav ing first-in-air honors Unfortunately Giovannetti since first World Champs encountered turbulent wind shear layer suffered bad power stall clocking disappointing 81 sec Next up Reiner Hofsass Germany new Espada also suffered slight power stall After great victory Livno 1985 Hofsass has built new mod els wings solid Rohacell foam cov ered light Kevlar outfitted carbon spars tips plug onepiece dihedraled center panels airfoil patterned after Bob White section ad mired quite thin some upsweep wings stronger seemed handle higher launch speed October 1989 69 Left Xian Wang Peoples Republic China launches Power ship flight landed him solid 6th place 326-second flight six-minute flyoff teammate Li Anxin placed 7th right behind him Back 1985 Xian placed 5th World Championships Livno Right Flying USSR V Strukov model placed 8th Eugene Verbitski 3rd-place winner observe test flight Sunday morning several other contestants waiting cold damp low-lying mist evaporate before starting flyoffs FFWC FIB Rubber Left Jimmy intrepid interpreter Chinese team holding magnificent Waketields instrumental once again enabling win Fl B team prize Right Wenyi Zhang left flew 9th place total score 1287 Zhaoyi Zeng right won 5th place flight 192 seconds four-minute flyotf Both fliers instrumental helping Chinese team well Glider set up ready second tempt flier waited ground few seconds catching breath hoping last-ditch thermal Dale went straight up off glide disappointing 70-sec time 14th place gallant try situations frequently become bit lottery year no exception first flyoff couldnt help ob serve best times returned fliers launched southern end flight line field either over longer pampas grass just downwind stubblefield Reigning World Champ Victor Tchop brought VT-38 intrepid Glider hed captured gold 87 France 88 European Champion ships Yugoslavia flown day obvious success 230-sec time flyoff however Tchop 10 sec short needed total defend ti tle Flying first world event Nuttgens did himself Germany credit near end round score 227 put him seventh place New Zealands Malcolm Sexton attempted max Lepps thermal unable center came landing 212 sec Five 15 fliers maxed awaiting return Gliders downwind brisk wind re trieval went smoothly fields good chasing no faced either pro longed waiting undue grief un mowed grass made generally soft forgiving landings few punctured model coverings worry about five-minute flyoff would decisive round found lift conditions less unchanged sirens sounding Andres Lepp position southernmost among five remain ing flight stations again began towing An dres AL-37 seemed unerringly tune tested air together Sens ing apparent thermal tension circled downwind once twice pausing mas terfully sidestep somewhat out control rival model Russian maintained su preme control seemed always keenly aware situation hand After last circle tow downwind make sure air Andres zoom launched spiraling up left-handed open climb recov ery perfect None other fliers position reach Andres air As AL-37 soared away what looked surefire max everyone else searched fruitlessly lift Andres sat launched watch ing entire flight daring hope hed remain unchallenged became obvious no rival maxes off ing Eugene Verbitski rushed congratu late Andres Together two Russians walked back crowd friends ad mirers flight line rising swell applause cheering Andres beam ing ear ear pride happiness Eugene shook hand bear hugged him Nordic flier has contrib uted much FlA come close winning least twice before fully deserved victory FFWC FiC Power/Hines Continued page 69 seemingly good recovery Kens model stalled ground 140 seconds virtually killed chance team prize Ken wasnt flier experiencing some problems Dave Sugden Canada Dick Johnson Roger Baggott Great Bri tam Gunnar Agren Sweden among others didnt max Out 48 competitors 33 achieved fourminute max midway through Round 2 wind shear stoppedbut wind gusts settling usual southwest erly direction earlier previous day wind cold needed extra layers clothing just keep warm Conditions worsened rounds progressed power patterns deteriorated buffeting turbulence trying harsh conditions brought fliers scores way down caused several crashes wind speed gusting near nine-meters-per-second limit nearly impossible detect small ther mals let alone start engine launch time Argentinas Mauricio Zito much home-field advantage anyone doing very well until dropped sixth round error Round 6 fact statistically worst 26 maxes 18 drops Despite sorry sixth round two teams still retained full scoresthe Poles Rus sians Jan Ochman Poland unlucky exciting seventh round managing 143 sec deserving Soviet team maxed out win four seconds over Chinese put flyoff Randy Archer meantime fly ing very well albeit couple squeak ers US team member make flyoff Doug Ken both plagued stalled flights drops last-gasp crash punctuating things Ken interest achieving sporting re sult' making allowances wind organizing committee postponed flyoffs until Sunday morning relief almost everyone spoke lucky 13 maxed out walked off Aerodromo La Cruz field earlier expectedwith two-night bonus think over strategies home stretch FFWC Fl B Rubber/Hines Continued page 70 seconds Fully half 74 fliers made max some notable exceptions Ben Itzhak Israel 1979 FlB victor gar EASY AS 1-2-3 Instructional Videotapes HOW TO VACUUM BAG FIBERGLASS WINGS AND WHERE TO BUY MATERIALS AND MAKING FIBERGLASS MOLDS otapes give ABCs making fiberglass molds wings what equipment material will need tapes allow manufac hire mosty fibergiass part technique CUTTING FOAM CORES AND MAKING TEM PLATES rs step-by-step technique foam wings plans Automatic Hands Off Foam cutter will give Shaip Tmiling Edges will given videotape Bonus DRAWING PLANS & PHOTOS FOR BAT TERY POWERED BUBBLE BLOWER le Blower puts outs million bubbles Its ap plication study thennals great Hand Launch Thennal flying PRICING HOW TO VACUUM BAG3495 Shipping MAKING MOLDS3495 Shipping CUTIING FOAM CORES3495 Shipping BAI1TERY BUBBLE BLOWER PLANS699 Available VHS & BETA Texas residents add 8% sates tax Pricing Subject Change Without Notice IoIk RfrCo o 1/4 Scale Kits $12995 Epoxy/Glass/Foam construction Drawingi Data Formula 120 Pylon Sport Standoff ScaleKit Price ping Credit Cards WelcomedOhio Residents Add 7% October 1989 165 Picture Worth Thousand Words
Edition: Model Aviation - 1989/10
Page Numbers: 68, 69, 165
FFWC FIG Power CLEAR SKIES setting moon greeted predawn arrival airfield second day championships ready test air FiC Power battles store feet fingers bit frost grass confirmed cold first light sound engines filled air inevitable last-minute check flights could seen Above approximately 80 ft wind shear present fair amount drift prevailing southwesterly direc tion power patterns showed flatter deflection passing through shear line flattening climb Comprising US team Ken Phair placed 14th Livno 1985 won Seguin 1988 Team Finals Randy Archer 1987 World Cup 1989 Max Men International winner big Doug Galbreath wily motor man fly ing fifth World Championships team looked superb during practice setting altitude standards other nations fliers emulate Aluminum-foil-covered FtC models majority year Evidently really dangerous competitors following Verbitskis other Russians lead began using thin metal-over-balsa construction techniques 1970s Americans used sys tem exclusively no secret Randy Archer looked especially strong high consistent climbs smooth bunt pullouts made him pregame favorite upset Russian Four Strukov Mukhin Korban FiC team Eugene Verbitskithe latter ever friendly proudly defending hard-fought highly popular 1987 victory France Chinese also expected strong contenders Italians Poles French Hungarians Three-time Champ Thomas Koster Denmark always brings some exciting ideas design equipment found contest field year flapper saw met its unfor tunate demise check flight before start Round quite literally being blown apart RC dethermalizer control ton pushed too early nosedown position after overbunting guilty party shall remain forever nameless al though Thomas could heard muttering something about instant divorce went collect bits pieces Thomas seems have set aside Excalibur all68 Model Aviation Alexander Mukhin USSR flew excellent 4th place second World Championship row FlA Nordic Champ Andres Lepp USSR can seen background holding backup plane Ken Phair US sets out Power ships during processing Ken plagued bad luck first collision prac tice flight 140-sec stall ground competition Doug Galbreaths US models visible foreground Three-time Champ Thomas Koster Den mark launching ships test flight flapper seen competition met unfortunate fate being test flown Henning Nyhegn fellow Dane holding tach Thomas Argentinas top FiC flier Mauricio Zito launches plane flight landed him 28th place Mauricic did double duty filling job assistant general director Left Alain Roux France showing off F4815 fleet Verbitski-type-43 models has building since the 1987 World Championships Alain flew bird very respectable 10th place Above beautiful Power ship built flown Hans Stetz FR Germany stick-and-tissue plane make flyoffs Unfortunately suffered stall-to-the-ground flight 215 seconds Mr Stetz still garnered 13th place plastic molded FiG design favor Verbitski-style models certainly flying very well cant beat em join em eh Thomas venerable Verbitski stacking new Long BE-49 golden ship proved wasnt infallible casualty solidified Verbitskis decision fly BE-43 1987 winner American camp its trou bles too just few minutes go before starting siren Ken Phair launched check flight collided other gliding model Kens bird de stroyed other plane rocked little continued its way seemingly undam aged man US made best itset up another ship said planned use case Round 1 began usual flurry ac tivity Everyone seemed anxious get flight early Doug Galbreath fired up hot Nelson engine V-Max dihedral tiplet design has successfully develop ing Ken Oliver Though Dougs launch looked fine shear 80 ft flat tened climb just enough cause overbunt condition lost some altitude stalled first minute before finally flat tening out beautiful glide still high enough make four minutes some spare Breathing somewhat easier after first max books Randy Archer put picture-perfect flight score second max different story Ken Phair rough day continued right first flight After excellent climb Continued page 165 THE THIRD MORNING competition slated FiB Wakefield dawned clear calm quite cool day before organizers watchful con cerned provide best possible condi tions competition announced rounds would shortened 45 min utes light fact usual winds would almost surely crease afternoon Wakefields gen erally affected wind heavier Nordic Power models Obvi ously wise decision though retrieval teams reporters would kept quite busy Flying commenced promptly start Round 1 Giovannetti Chile hav ing first-in-air honors Unfortunately Giovannetti since first World Champs encountered turbulent wind shear layer suffered bad power stall clocking disappointing 81 sec Next up Reiner Hofsass Germany new Espada also suffered slight power stall After great victory Livno 1985 Hofsass has built new mod els wings solid Rohacell foam cov ered light Kevlar outfitted carbon spars tips plug onepiece dihedraled center panels airfoil patterned after Bob White section ad mired quite thin some upsweep wings stronger seemed handle higher launch speed October 1989 69 Left Xian Wang Peoples Republic China launches Power ship flight landed him solid 6th place 326-second flight six-minute flyoff teammate Li Anxin placed 7th right behind him Back 1985 Xian placed 5th World Championships Livno Right Flying USSR V Strukov model placed 8th Eugene Verbitski 3rd-place winner observe test flight Sunday morning several other contestants waiting cold damp low-lying mist evaporate before starting flyoffs FFWC FIB Rubber Left Jimmy intrepid interpreter Chinese team holding magnificent Waketields instrumental once again enabling win Fl B team prize Right Wenyi Zhang left flew 9th place total score 1287 Zhaoyi Zeng right won 5th place flight 192 seconds four-minute flyotf Both fliers instrumental helping Chinese team well Glider set up ready second tempt flier waited ground few seconds catching breath hoping last-ditch thermal Dale went straight up off glide disappointing 70-sec time 14th place gallant try situations frequently become bit lottery year no exception first flyoff couldnt help ob serve best times returned fliers launched southern end flight line field either over longer pampas grass just downwind stubblefield Reigning World Champ Victor Tchop brought VT-38 intrepid Glider hed captured gold 87 France 88 European Champion ships Yugoslavia flown day obvious success 230-sec time flyoff however Tchop 10 sec short needed total defend ti tle Flying first world event Nuttgens did himself Germany credit near end round score 227 put him seventh place New Zealands Malcolm Sexton attempted max Lepps thermal unable center came landing 212 sec Five 15 fliers maxed awaiting return Gliders downwind brisk wind re trieval went smoothly fields good chasing no faced either pro longed waiting undue grief un mowed grass made generally soft forgiving landings few punctured model coverings worry about five-minute flyoff would decisive round found lift conditions less unchanged sirens sounding Andres Lepp position southernmost among five remain ing flight stations again began towing An dres AL-37 seemed unerringly tune tested air together Sens ing apparent thermal tension circled downwind once twice pausing mas terfully sidestep somewhat out control rival model Russian maintained su preme control seemed always keenly aware situation hand After last circle tow downwind make sure air Andres zoom launched spiraling up left-handed open climb recov ery perfect None other fliers position reach Andres air As AL-37 soared away what looked surefire max everyone else searched fruitlessly lift Andres sat launched watch ing entire flight daring hope hed remain unchallenged became obvious no rival maxes off ing Eugene Verbitski rushed congratu late Andres Together two Russians walked back crowd friends ad mirers flight line rising swell applause cheering Andres beam ing ear ear pride happiness Eugene shook hand bear hugged him Nordic flier has contrib uted much FlA come close winning least twice before fully deserved victory FFWC FiC Power/Hines Continued page 69 seemingly good recovery Kens model stalled ground 140 seconds virtually killed chance team prize Ken wasnt flier experiencing some problems Dave Sugden Canada Dick Johnson Roger Baggott Great Bri tam Gunnar Agren Sweden among others didnt max Out 48 competitors 33 achieved fourminute max midway through Round 2 wind shear stoppedbut wind gusts settling usual southwest erly direction earlier previous day wind cold needed extra layers clothing just keep warm Conditions worsened rounds progressed power patterns deteriorated buffeting turbulence trying harsh conditions brought fliers scores way down caused several crashes wind speed gusting near nine-meters-per-second limit nearly impossible detect small ther mals let alone start engine launch time Argentinas Mauricio Zito much home-field advantage anyone doing very well until dropped sixth round error Round 6 fact statistically worst 26 maxes 18 drops Despite sorry sixth round two teams still retained full scoresthe Poles Rus sians Jan Ochman Poland unlucky exciting seventh round managing 143 sec deserving Soviet team maxed out win four seconds over Chinese put flyoff Randy Archer meantime fly ing very well albeit couple squeak ers US team member make flyoff Doug Ken both plagued stalled flights drops last-gasp crash punctuating things Ken interest achieving sporting re sult' making allowances wind organizing committee postponed flyoffs until Sunday morning relief almost everyone spoke lucky 13 maxed out walked off Aerodromo La Cruz field earlier expectedwith two-night bonus think over strategies home stretch FFWC Fl B Rubber/Hines Continued page 70 seconds Fully half 74 fliers made max some notable exceptions Ben Itzhak Israel 1979 FlB victor gar EASY AS 1-2-3 Instructional Videotapes HOW TO VACUUM BAG FIBERGLASS WINGS AND WHERE TO BUY MATERIALS AND MAKING FIBERGLASS MOLDS otapes give ABCs making fiberglass molds wings what equipment material will need tapes allow manufac hire mosty fibergiass part technique CUTTING FOAM CORES AND MAKING TEM PLATES rs step-by-step technique foam wings plans Automatic Hands Off Foam cutter will give Shaip Tmiling Edges will given videotape Bonus DRAWING PLANS & PHOTOS FOR BAT TERY POWERED BUBBLE BLOWER le Blower puts outs million bubbles Its ap plication study thennals great Hand Launch Thennal flying PRICING HOW TO VACUUM BAG3495 Shipping MAKING MOLDS3495 Shipping CUTIING FOAM CORES3495 Shipping BAI1TERY BUBBLE BLOWER PLANS699 Available VHS & BETA Texas residents add 8% sates tax Pricing Subject Change Without Notice IoIk RfrCo o 1/4 Scale Kits $12995 Epoxy/Glass/Foam construction Drawingi Data Formula 120 Pylon Sport Standoff ScaleKit Price ping Credit Cards WelcomedOhio Residents Add 7% October 1989 165 Picture Worth Thousand Words