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USA Team Blog – F1B

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F1B after lunch

[7/24/2025 2:27 AM] [Tiffaney]: So, sorry I got behind. We dropped one by one. Alex went with other models in the fifth round, but his model had an open climb, went upwind and didn’t turn into the thermal, while other models climbed. Tia launched very slight left and fell off, and was low enough that she couldn’t get into the small thermal. Greg and Bernard maxed. In the sixth round, Greg came out to the line and waited through a bad patch. Once an obvious thermal arrived, he was ready to launch when his motor broke. Alex was ready to go, checked in and launched in the same air, and maxed easily, despite being underpowered, lacking 22 hand turns. Tia went next and launched in a thermal, booming off. Greg was next and waited through some windy conditions and a few poor looking models, before launching about 15 seconds after Bruce Hao. He shot up, but kept going nose up straight and fell off. This caused his model to head upwind and never found the air. However our problems were put into perspective when a chaser fell through a broken down barn roof and was life-flighted to hospital. We are still in a competition hold. We hope he will be OK but know that it is serious.
[7/24/2025 2:30 AM][Barbara]: Oh! That is not good, falling through a barn roof?
Keep up with info, good or bad!
[7/24/2025 2:30 AM] [Ben Tarcher]: Yikes! Clearly they should have moved the line sad ??
[7/24/2025 2:32 AM] [Ben Tarcher]: This thru the 6th round right?
[7/24/2025 2:50 AM] [Catherine Mah]: I am assuming it was not US chaser falling through the roof?
[7/24/2025 2:51 AM] [Javier Abad]: Very old uralit sheets
[7/24/2025 3:06 AM] [Tiffaney]: No one clean. They are restarting the contest. Seventh round at 6:30, 4-minute max. We’ve moved across a ditch, a little farther upwind and to the side of the one set of barns.
[7/24/2025 3:07 AM] [Ben Tarcher]: Too bad no clean flyers. 🙁
[7/24/2025 3:08 AM] [Ben Tarcher]: I guess there are many others clean otherwise they would not have a 4 min max
[7/24/2025 7:03 AM] [Tiffaney]: Sorry guys, I think I got over heated and probably didn’t eat enough today, so I had to head home. There were 30 in the flyoff, 8 minute max at 8:45. This may have decided it, but altimeters are still being checked.
[7/24/2025 7:04 AM] [Robert Dunham II]: Hope you get to feeling better.
[7/24/2025 7:34 AM] Blake Jensen: Hi Al, thanks for all of your support for the team. I am just now leaving the field as the results are being made official, after processing. Here is a video listing the top three competitors. One max out of 31 flyers.
[7/24/2025 8:52 AM] [Derek]Thanks for the reports Tiffaney and Blake!
[7/24/2025 8:53 AM] [Robert Dunham II]: Appreciate the reports, Thanks!
[7/24/2025 9:57 AM] Roger Morrell: Did anyone figure out where and when the Official results were appearing on FB or the Internet ?
[7/24/2025 10:38 AM] [Ben Tarcher]: Thanks guys for the hard work ??

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