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[Tiffaney]
Heading out to the field for the first day of the Friendship World Cup. It will just be F1A/Q today. It rained heavily yesterday, so we’ll see the condition of the road and field. It will also be the first time we drive the 50 km from our hotel to the field in anger. Wish us luck. Testing in the morning went well yesterday, with perfect conditions before the storm. Julie did have an incident with her prop starting in her hand, but Yuda helped her reset the pitch. Jackie helped chase models, but flyers still got plenty of steps in. On to competition.

[Bernard Guest]
Yes we have the final flyoff for F1a and F1Q in a few minutes time
[Tiffaney]
Ken is one of 25 F1A flyers in the flyoff. Jack is one of 6 F1Qs in the flyoff.
F1A at 7:20
F1Q at 7:30
flight time will either be four or five minutes plus altimeter. One and done.

Ken and Jack’s flights didn’t go as well as hoped. Ken had to let the line go while towing in windy conditions and ran back to the pole for his backup model. He launched with less than a minute left and got reasonably high, but his backup model was not suited to the conditions and did less than 3 minutes. On second thought, Ken would probably have retrieved his first model and tried again with it. Jack launched in a good moment in his flyoff and looked good, but picked up a stall and didn’t recover. He also did less than 3 minutes. These are good lessons before next week’s competition. I apologize for not posting results, but one of. Jack’s models broke a tailboom gliding into a fence downwind during the third round and Blake needed to return to our hotel room to provide repair tools.

[Mike Richardson]
It appears “Murphy’s Law” (I don’t mean Jack) struck. All will be good next week.

[Tiffaney]
Really tough conditions for Ken, but yes, they both learned a bit about the turbulent air.

[Eugene Ulm]
Is Jacks model reparable?

[Blake Jensen]
Yes, I had DP 420 and a battery operated Dremel and Bernard has an F1A boom to make a sleeve, and Jack will aim to have it repaired and test flown tomorrow.

[Tiffaney]
We’re not sure how these organizers are going to be about posting results. I will most likely be staying to see the results, hopefully, posted tomorrow. That wasn’t possible tonight. I’ll post tomorrow morning, our time, once I locate a copy.

[Walt Ghio]
Just found the results posted on Facebook by the organizers. Thanks for replying.

[Eugene Ulm]
Nice teamwork on the repairs

[Tiffaney]

Tiff did include a copy of the results in the Blog but they were not in a for suitable for SEN.

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