SEN 3349

1. Mini Neuron Retention
2. Team USA Blog
3. View from the other side of the World

 

Mini Neuron Retention
From: Jeremy Fitch

A blown motor or other disturbance can cause the Hirose connector to come out of your mini neurone, with obvious potentially bad consequences if you don’t notice it.  I’m taping all mine in with Kapton and checking the top for flashing red light each time.

Team USA Blog

[Tiffaney]

Flash: Todd in F1C flyoff, Tia and Greg in F1 B flyoff. Meeting at 6 where we will find out the plan.

Guy had his model DT off the top and did 41 seconds, so good air. We figured out the issue and will avoid that next week. Bernard and Alex didn’t pick thermals off the electronic detectors, so we began using streamers, heat and fluffies. That worked great. We also avoided down air in the last round by not launching when the indicators were good, but weren’t what was expected and they showed great patience and picked a thermal about 5-10 minutes later. Now hanging out under the tent waiting for the meeting.

[Blake Jensen]
Fly off pole positions:
Greg 38
Tia 39

Todd 9
730 for F1B Four minutes plus altimeter

F1 C approximately 15 minutes later

[Tiffaney]

Blake, Jim, Shlomi and Sheng worked to get Todd’s mini-Neuron altimeter tracking system working for the altitude flyoff, but decided to attach Shlomi’s to it for now. We’ll figure out his issues later.

View from the other side of the World

We are a little confused the other side of the World as we have not seen anywhere on Champs  Organizer’s website the official  web location of the results. Is any location displayed on the site? We have seen some postings on Facebook but no real official place?  What gives?

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Roger Morrell