F3A Pattern World Championships
The USA F3A team, with reigning World Champion Chip Hyde, left Chicago on September 12, 1993, and headed for Regensburg, Germany. Several Regensburg Model Club members met us at the airport, helped us find our hotel, and took us to the local flying field, which they had reserved as a practice site for us. The practice site was very nice. The runway hard surface was about 100 meters long and six meters wide, with grass all around. It was in the middle of a farm area that provided wide-open flying. They had even installed box poles for us.
Pattern World Championships
THE 1997 F3A World Championships, held in Deblin, Poland, is history. Congratulations to Giichi Naruke of Japan for retaining his world title. Christophe Paysant Le Roux of France was second, and Wolfgang Matt of Liechtenstein was third. For the US, Chris Lakin was seventh and Kirk Gray was ninth, but only 16 points (out of 3,000) separated fifth place from ninth! Japan won the team title, with Germany second, Liechtenstein third, and the US fourth. Once again it was close, with only 18 points separating second from fourth!
