[LASS Soaring] German Open F3K Finals

[Ben Wilson]

The 2008 German Open F3K is over....and the USA took 2nd! 

North Carolina's own Oleg Golovidov (TD guy turned F3K) battled his way 
into the fly-off and then put the hammer down to finish in 2nd.
Phil Barnes also made the fly-off and finished in 8th overall.

Bret Carr (Jeff's son) took 6th in the Junior category!

Other US participants (who didn't make the flyoffs):
20th - Paul Anderson
31st - Bruce Davidson
33rd - Adam Weston
58th - Jeff Carr
96th - Brett Carr
97th - Chris Adams

That's out of 112 participants. Someone (who shall remain nameless) at 
the US F3K NATS said to me "they have 112 people at a *handlaunch* 
contest?"  "Yes, (name), handlaunch is popular everywhere else in the 
world except the US Nationals".

There's a good reason why 8 (almost 10) of our top pilots went to 
Germany instead of the NATS - though it might have been the draught beer 
on tap on the field! (When can we get that at Muncie?)

Bunches of Photos and such:
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=899115&page=2

Results
Pre-Flyoffs: http://www.mcm-muenchen.com/wettbewerbe/F3KResult.pdf
Junior (18-) Flyoffs: 
http://www.mcm-muenchen.com/wettbewerbe/F3KFlyOffJunior.pdf
Senior (18+) Flyoffs: 
http://www.mcm-muenchen.com/wettbewerbe/F3KFlyOffSenior.pdf

Way to go Team USA! Keep it up for F3K in 2010? 2011? 2012?



Ben Wilson wrote:
> The German F3K Open is currently going on *right now* and a good group 
> of handlaunch pilots from the US are over in Munich battling it out.  
> Right now, Oleg Golovidov and Phil Barnes are 6th and 9th after 9 
> rounds. Heavy hitters Paul Anderson and Louisville's own Bruce 
> Davidson are in 19th and 26th.
>
> See, people will actually travel to a handlaunch contest... if it's 
> more than a day long :)
>
> Scores and such can be found here, scroll down to Results: 
> http://www.mcm-muenchen.com/
>
> Couple of RCGroups threads:
> Oleg's Day 1 Recap
> http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showpost.php?p=10217854&postcount=7
>
> Mike Seid's Day 1 Recap:
> http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showpost.php?p=10219469&postcount=12
>
> More reports and photos:
> http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=898686
>
> FlyQuiet UK Thread:
> http://www.flyquiet.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=1201.0
>
>
> See y'all tomorrow in Muncie!
> Ben
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