Team USA and the World Champs

[Howard Rush]

Everybody at the contest has been very helpful. Kenny's plan is to use Bruno's.  Thanks, guys. 

[Derek Barry]

Everybody at the contest has been very helpful. Kenny's plan is to use Bruno's.  Thanks, guys. 

Great news! Thanks Howard.

Derek

[Paul Walker]

Howard,
How are you doing in the World Cup?

[Tim Wescott]

Everybody at the contest has been very helpful. Kenny's plan is to use Bruno's.  Thanks, guys. 

Thanks Bruno!.

[NED-088]

Correction: Henk's. You wouldn't want to fly one of mine, none of them is flyable at the moment.
It will be the latest version of his 'Thundercat' design, the last development of his Cobra 60, with extended wingspan, side mounted engine.
The engine is a custom build ST 60 copy, it has better running properties. It likes 20 castor/5 nitro fuel.
What we don't have are a spare filler bottle and battery, so try to get hold of some.
Henk trims his a bit 'lazy' compared to my set ups, but nothing a bigger handle won't cure. No worries, we'll get this baby going!
Hopefully you guys have something to adapt the registration and of course blank FAI forms to make Kenny the temporary owner. But that's a minor point.

Now y'all sit back and relax until we turn up....

[SteveMoon]

Great looking plane. I am sure Kenny and the entire USA team are overwhelmed
by your generosity. Now for Kenny to get down to flying!

Good luck guys, Steve

[Randy Cuberly]

Great news.  I've still got some fingernails left!

I've competed in many, many activities over the years, Motorcycle Racing, a passel of Shooting Sports, Track and Field events, and most have good people...but CL Stunt stands out above all as the best and most generous bunch of folks I've encountered anywhere!

Randy Cuberly

[Derek Barry]

Correction: Henk's. You wouldn't want to fly one of mine, none of them is flyable at the moment.
It will be the latest version of his 'Thundercat' design, the last development of his Cobra 60, with extended wingspan, side mounted engine.
The engine is a custom build ST 60 copy, it has better running properties. It likes 20 castor/5 nitro fuel.
What we don't have are a spare filler bottle and battery, so try to get hold of some.
Henk trims his a bit 'lazy' compared to my set ups, but nothing a bigger handle won't cure. No worries, we'll get this baby going!
Hopefully you guys have something to adapt the registration and of course blank FAI forms to make Kenny the temporary owner. But that's a minor point.

Now y'all sit back and relax until we turn up....

You guys are so AWESOME!!!!! Thank you so much for helping our team in a time of extreme need!

Derek

[Mike Keville]

I've known Henk deJong for many years.  He's always been a Class Act.  This gesture just proves that.

[Will Hinton]

I must ad my thanks to that, you folks are the best!

[John Sunderland]

Man I hate to hear Kenny has to go through this....I consider him one of my closest flying buddies. Really feel for him as I know what a competitor he is and having crashed at a major contest (the Nats) I know just how bad that feels. I also know that with a good plane and a few practice flights Kenny can do just about whatever is necessary. So glad Henk could help out! What generosity! Go Team USA!

[Randy Powell]

That's tough for Kenny. Spend all that time, practice until you are dialed in on a plane, then this. I wish him good luck, he's had enough of bad luck.

[Derek Barry]

Looks like Howard is putting up some good flights in the World Cup. Keep it up!

Derek

[Derek Barry]

If someone could enlarge that picture I just posted it would be greatly appreciated. Busy at work right now...

Derek

[Tom Niebuhr]

We can't thank our Netherland Friends enough. While I have not met Bruno, I have met Henk several tines and he is a great guy.

To take it further, this points out the closeness of the world wide stunt community. When something like this happens, we forget petty differences and help each other. This proves that the world is a much better place than the news media would like you to believe.

Looks like Howard is performing well. I hope that some one can make the scores bigger so we can read them.

[RC Storick]

2014 FAI KUYAVIA WORLD CUP for control line model aircraft http://cl-wch2014.pl/unofficial-results/
F2B Włocławek 7 - 8.08.2014
Unofficial results
No: Surname and First name Junior /
Senior
National
id mark FAI Licence No:
B1 KAMINSKI Michał Senior POL POL3297 928,56 0,00 0,00 928,56
B2 RUSH Howard Senior USA USA18230 1 080,43 1 096,40 0,00 2 176,83
B3 WECLAWIAK Janusz Senior POL POL1855 946,10 0,00 0,00 946,10
B4 LAURI Malila Senior SUI SUI50833 1 019,90 0,00 0,00 1 019,90
B5 BURGER Igor Senior SVK SVK1149 1 106,96 0,00 0,00 1 106,96
B6 RODRIGES Bene Senior BRA BRA-899 976,80 0,00 0,00 976,80
B7 ALVES Rogerio Senior BRA BRA-7941 1 005,36 0,00 0,00 1 005,36
B8 SKRABALEK Jan Senior SVK SVK1146 1 054,60 0,00 0,00 1 054,60
B9 RUISL Vojtech Senior SVK SVK1154 1 006,06 0,00 0,00 1 006,06
B10 SCHREK Alexander Senior SVK SVK1150 1 094,86 1 124,66 0,00 2 219,52
B11 KORNMEIER Richard Senior GER GER2836 1 074,70 1 114,20 0,00 2 188,90
B12 BARNES Kevin Senior NZL NZL282 934,30 0,00 0,00 934,30
B13 TRAVNIK István Senior HUN HUN0077 276,86 0,00 0,00 276,86
B14 MEISL Kamil Senior CZE CZE1103 1 011,30 1 057,90 0,00 2 069,20
B15 NELL Loren Senior NZL NZL9969 977,30 0,00 0,00 977,30
B16 BORZECKI Krystian Senior POL POL4163 1 104,16 1 125,30 0,00 2 229,46
B17 MATSUMURA Kenji Senior JPN JPN34F130121 984,66 0,00 0,00 984,66
B18 MINATO Kaz Senior JPN JPN33F293 1 041,30 1 075,73 0,00 2 117,03
B19 MASUDA Syozo Senior JPN JPN34F304 978,66 0,00 0,00 978,66
B20 MURAMATSU Masahiro Senior JPN JPN46F136 1 065,00 0,00 0,00 1 065,00
B21 MASARU Hiki Senior JPN JPN31F649 1 051,16 1 097,26 0,00 2 148,42
B22 SALOMATIN Vladimir Senior RUS RUS3008 1 086,23 1 102,23 0,00 2 188,46
B23 YAKOVLEV Evgeny Senior RUS RUS0128 1 047,06 1 085,90 0,00 2 132,96
B24 TURCHENKO Mykola Senior UKR UKR589 1 035,53 1 077,90 0,00 2 113,43
B25 VANYAGIN Dmitry Senior RUS RUS02451 1 038,36 1 092,86 0,00 2 131,22
B26 DOBROVOLNY Radomil Senior CZE CZE1105 996,73 1 031,56 0,00 2 028,29
B27 RAZHETDINOV Dmitrii Senior RUS RUS0090A 922,71 0,00 0,00 922,71
B28 BUSHNEV Pavel Senior RUS RUS0150 1 005,30 0,00 0,00 1 005,30
B29 DZIUBA Paweł Senior POL POL1975 1 018,50 1 067,86 0,00 2 086,36
B33 BYELKO Sergiy Senior MDA MDA005 1 063,30 0,00 0,00 1 063,30
B40 YOKOYAMA Mitsuru Senior JPN JPN33F930 1 060,50 0,00 0,00 1 060,50
B41 YOKOYAMA Kazuya Senior JPN JPN31F130793 1 040,90 0,00 0,00 1 040,90

[Tom Niebuhr]

This can't be all of it. Howard is the only one listed from the U.S. team. Our friends from Holland are not mentioned. I am sure that there are others not listed.

[Darkstar1]

This should work 

[RC Storick]

This can't be all of it. Howard is the only one listed from the U.S. team. Our friends from Holland are not mentioned. I am sure that there are others not listed.

Howard is the only team member entered in the world cup. F2B has not started yet

[Ted Fancher]

OK,  If I read this right, I come up with this.  Is that how others read it??

1.Borzecki (POL) 2229.46
2. Shreck (CZE) 2229.46
3. Kornemier (GER) 2188.9
4. Salomatin (RUS) 2188.46
5. Rush (USA) 2176.83
6. Hiki (JPN) 2148.03
7. Banyagin (RUS) 2131.22
8. Kaz (JPN) 2117.03
9. Turchenko (UKR) 2113.43
10. Dziuba (POL) 2086.36

The scores being the total of two official flights, etc.

?

The format seemed to require a little interpretation.  If I'm reading it right it looks like quite a few, including hard chargers such as Bene, Igor and Sergei Belko took no second flight which sort of implies bad winds or something.

Also, do we know if these are the final results???  Maybe there's a third round and some are waiting for better weather?

Ted

[Howard Rush]

This looks like the results from where they left off yesterday.  We finished round two and flew all of round three today.  score is the best two out of three.

[RC Storick]

wheres the scores?

[John Kelly]

   ...Reply #115... click link

[Jim Damerell]

Still doesn't show third round?

[Matt Colan]

Got this off of facebook from Tania:

"Official results of World Cup in clas F2B
1. Igor Burger
2. Alexander Schrek
3. Krystian Borzecki"

Not sure where Howard ended up

[Ted Fancher]

This looks like the results from where they left off yesterday.  We finished round two and flew all of round three today.  score is the best two out of three.

Thanks, Howard.  I thought that might be the case.  Good luck today.  Are you having to wait long for scores?

Ted

[RC Storick]

Pictures

http://www.f2rus.ru/2011-10-08-18-52-33/polsha-20143.html

http://www.f2rus.ru/2011-10-08-18-52-33/polsha-20144.html

[PerttiMe]

Pictures

http://www.f2rus.ru/2011-10-08-18-52-33/polsha-20143.html

http://www.f2rus.ru/2011-10-08-18-52-33/polsha-20144.html

I just browsed them quickly. Lauri Malila's Shark "14" is the best looking Yatsenko ever, at least until somebody does a spectacular finish on a Yatsenko Gee Bee R3.

[jose modesto]

Take a look at Bene's New Shark. Ink,shine,logos great fit,And the flag on fin.
Jose

[PerttiMe]

Take a look at Bene's New Shark. Ink,shine,logos great fit,And the flag on fin.
Jose

This one?
https://flic.kr/p/omP9oU
Looks "pretty good"

That is from Claudia Kehnen's "2014 World Cup Wloclawek" gallery (Taken on August 7, 2014). I'm sure there's more photos coming.

[Howard Rush]

Here's an update.  Today was a practice day.  We flew on the official circles, although the wait time on the 1 1/2 practice circles was probably less.  I got in two flights in about four hours.  I'll take a nap and go back later while other folks are gorging on pierogies and potatoes. 

Kenny is flying Kaz's airplane.  Kaz has to go home because his brother is ill.  Bene Rodrigues offered Kenny the use of a new Yatsenko plane, too. 

I watched Igor practice.  The wind was moderate--certainly not light.  He did most maneuvers normally, then did his square eights upwind.  They were good square eights, too.  We told Keith, but he didn't believe it. 

I stopped by the combat circle.  Sasha Nadein, our Junior, was there.  In 2000, she was the cutest baby we'd ever seen.  Now she's 15 and a formidable combat flier.  Josh Ellison was bitten by a radioactive spider last week. The bite got infected, and he couldn't make the trip, so Chuck Rudner took his place.  Chuck's kid Mark is also on the team.  The third member, Richard Stubblefield, will be 70 in October.  Mark figures this is the most experienced US F2D team ever.

[Will Hinton]

Thanks for the update Howard!  Sounds like thing might be progressing in a good way.  Best to all three of you.
Will

[Igor]

Howard, Good luck to you and rest of the guys in US Team! good news that Kenny has recovery model borrowed. Please say Many Thank you for Kaz! I will e mail him too, sad news he was quit from W/Championship, due his brother illness.

[Lauri Malila]

I just browsed them quickly. Lauri Malila's Shark "14" is the best looking Yatsenko ever, at least until somebody does a spectacular finish on a Yatsenko Gee Bee R3.

That is true, or at least it was 1000 flights ago.
It flies better, too!

Lauri

[Wlodek Ulas]

RESULTS
http://cl-wch2014.pl/unofficial-results/

[Howard Rush]

Howard, Good luck to you and rest of the guys in US Team! good news that Kenny has recovery model borrowed. Please say Many Thank you for Kaz! I will e mail him too, sad news he was quit from W/Championship, due his brother illness.

He wasn't entered in the World Champs, but intended to spend some time here as a supporter and tourist after the World Cup contest.

[Randy Cuberly]

Has anyone else noticed that the extended weather forecast at the WC area is light to moderate rain for all of next week?
I wonder what they consider moderate rain in Poland, and how accurate their weather forecasts are!

Randy Cuberly

[Steve Helmick]

If anybody runs into Stanislaw Kubit over yonder, please say "Howdy" for me.  Steve

[Brett Buck]

He wasn't entered in the World Champs, but intended to spend some time here as a supporter and tourist after the World Cup contest.

   Kaz is absolutely the best.

   Brett

[Derek Barry]

   Kaz is absolutely the best.

   Brett

Yes he is!

Derek

[Dan McEntee]

    Ditto on Mr. Minato. Is his model the one he had at the NATS this year (Blue Max?) or one of his Hellcats? Best of luck to all. Sometimes the best performances come after dealing with a little adversity.
   Type at you later,
    Dan McEntee

[PerttiMe]

    Ditto on Mr. Minato. Is his model the one he had at the NATS this year (Blue Max?)

The photos that Robert linked include a "K.Minato's BM Comp No.45".
http://www.f2rus.ru/2011-10-08-18-52-33/polsha-20144.html

[Howard Rush]

Today was processing.  It was easy.  They even accepted my painted-on FAI sticker.  We practiced for awhile, including the Official Practice.  They have mowed the official circles closer, so they now are approximately equivalent to the Walker Stunt Ranch surface, but with more plant species. 

We had the opening ceremony this afternoon, which is sorta like the Entrance of the Jive Combat Team at the Golden State contest banquet, except it lasts longer.  Orestes skipped the ceremony to fly stunt.  I snuck out about halfway through. 

A World Champion should be treated with respect and deference, I think, but there was a disturbing incident at this afternoon's practice.  Igor Burger, the current F2B champion, was standing at the practice circle.  He was not wearing a belt.  I do not know why.  Russell Bond, who appears here on Stunt Hangar, went behind the champion and depantsed him.   

Tomorrow we fly official stunt.  It's now 9:22 PM, and we don't know the flight order.  I guess they had no idea who was coming to fly

[Brett Buck]

A World Champion should be treated with respect and deference, I think, but there was a disturbing incident at this afternoon's practice.  Igor Burger, the current F2B champion, was standing at the practice circle.  He was not wearing a belt.  I do not know why.  Russell Bond, who appears here on Stunt Hangar, went behind the champion and depantsed him. 

Sounds about right.

   Brett

[Leo Mehl]

Thanks, everybody.  I'll do my best.

I for one wish Howard and the team great flying weather and a great time with our Polock friends. I hope Howard will have some new GOOD MY FREIND. Your Really old German friend Leo Mehl
GOOD LUCK HOWARD. Just keep smiling because that will keep the competition off balance

[Paul Walker]

Sounds about right.

   Brett

You know those Aussies.  Do anything for a laugh.


How are Orestes and Kenny doing?

[Paul Walker]

Howard,
Just pretend that it IS the WSR. Remember the 95% rule, and turning the 2nd corner of the HG far enough.

Remember, smooth and 95%!!

Now, go get them!

[Steve Helmick]

What Paul said about thinking it's the WSR is good. The Euro's fly against eachother in contests all summer and consider the WC as pretty much "just another contest". Our guys think it's a big deal and some are too nervous to fly to their maximum potential. That's what our FAI FF guys said, anyway. I think they made a good point.

Having participated in FAI FF contests for a long time, I came to the conclusion that a lot of guys tend to set their goals all wrong. They want to beat their teammates, they want to beat their flying buddy or their club members or their annoying adversary. WRONG! Set your goal as 1st Place, nothing more...or less.  Steve 

[Dennis Moritz]

Was it Igor's polka dot shorts. Hard to resist depantsing a man known to wear polka dot shorts.

[Tim Wescott]

WRONG! Set your goal as 1st Place, nothing more...or less.  Steve 

Er -- I'm competing in Expert now.  Gaining 1st place would either be accomplished by getting about 100 points more per flight, or by mass murder.