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Another hot day, light wind.

Ennio Graber  has already got the title but who will be stand on the rest of podium will be
decided depend on this round. Also team ranking will be decided.

From the first group,there are 2 pilots from team Italy.
Same as usual, they performed stably and dynamically.
Fabio Livi 215.5 points
Stefano Lucchi 210.5 points

Next group, Ari Holmstrom who is currently at the 2nd place.
He performed stably at this round too but the score couldn't get that high. 
Ari Holmstrom 202.5 points

Here is Uwe Kiesewetter ,currently  at  the 4th place and  Bernhard Egger  3rd place.
They are both possible to stand on the podium.
Firstly  Uwe Kiesewetter . Performed very carefull hovering manoeuvres.
He received applause from the crowd during his performance, "loop and roll" .
But unfortunately  next manoeuvre "flip with harf roll" didn't go well and this led his score
hold down.
Uwe Kiesewetter 207.5 points

Nextly  Bernhard Egger . According to him,compare to engine helicopter, it is difficult to
get used to with because feeling of  hovering is different. But as far as looking at his
performance,he never look like he is having any difficulity but he is handling very well.
Though expected a high score,coldn't reach to Fabio Livi .
Bernhard Egger 214.5 points

Depending on  Ennio Graber 's  score in the last group,the ranking of top pilots will be
changed.
Winning flight has started. Looking at his flight, he performed very stable than ever.
Flip rate was incredible and autorotation is successed. everyone expected a high score.
In the end,he earned the highest score at this competition.
Ennio Graber 235.5 points

This has decided the final rankings.(official site ->Results）

[Individual match]

1 Ennio Graber /Switzerland
2 Ari Holmstrom /Finland
3 Bernhard Egger /Austria
4 Uwe Kiesewetter /Germany
5 Fabio Livi /Italy
6 Stefano Lucchi /Italy
 

 [Team mutch]

1  Italy
2  Austria
3  Switzerland

 



*This time, counting way has been changed from not  decided by elimination round
but total ranking of each pilots including final round will decide the team rankings.

Judges,players and everyone involved this competition,thank you very much.

From Team JR,there are 5 pilots out of  6 are the finalist(everyone used electric helis)
knowledge about electric helicopters are ahead in Europe.
Motors,amp,battery charger etc.(there were many HONDA made for generator)

We JR have been very lucky to have pilots who have a great know-how here in
Europe and so E12 which will be released in the near future have got many of
their opinion.
We continue exchanging information with them and keep producing better products,
products to win the competitions.

We appreciate very much for all of your support for JR.

 Report by S.Kunii

Result for the 2nd round was

1 Ennio Graber /Switzerland 
2 Ari Holmstrom /Finland
3 Bernhard Egger /Austria 
4 Uwe Kiesewetter /Germany
5 Stefano Lucchi /Italy
6 Fabio Livi /Italy

[Results]

Uwe Kiesewetter /Germany

Stephen Roberts /Great Britain

Alessandro Del Lungo /Italy

Andreas Kals /Austria

Hans Emmenegger /Switzerland

Here is the result of  the finals Round 1.

1 Ennio Graber /Switzerland 
2 Stefano Lucchi /Italy
3 Uwe Kiesewetter /Germany          JR pilot
4 Ari Holmstrom /Finland 
5 Arnaud Poyet /France

Overall ranking so far is

1 Ennio Graber /Switzerland 
2 Ari Holmstrom /Finland 
3 Bernhard Egger /Austria 
4 Stefano Lucchi /Italy
5 Uwe Kiesewetter /Germany          JR pilot
6 Stephen Roberts /Great Britain    JR pilot 

Thank you
 

The FAI European Championships for F3C is being held from 15-24 JULY 2010, SIBIU, CISNADIE, ROMANIA.

Participating countries --- 10 countries

Entry numbers --- 28 people

Our company member Mr.Kunii is there to support TEAM JR.

The first 4 rounds are over now over .

The top 15 pilots who will compete for the championship title are-,

Resuts
1 Ennio Graber /Switzerland 
2 Ari Holmstrom /Finland
3 Bernhard Egger /Austria
4 Uwe Kiesewetter /Germany
5 Stephen Roberts /Great Britain
6 Fabio Livi /Italy    
7 Andreas Kals /Austria
8 Wolfgang Worgas /Austria
9 Pascal Brianchon /France
10 Mark Christy /Great Britain
11 Alessandro Del Lungo /Italy
12 Stefano Lucchi /Italy
13 Arnaud Poyet /France
14 Hans Emmenegger /Switzerland
15 Laurent Lombard /France
 

All of these 15 pilots are using electric version helicopter.

There were 4 pilots using engine helicopter during the elimination round.  

   <---  This is Uwe Kiesewetter /Germany. JR pilot

   <--- This is Steve Roberts / Great Britain JR pilot

Good luck for all!

Steve,thank you for the pictures.

Thank you

There was an annual heli event in Detroit on 25th to 27th/June.

Here is a report from Scott.

New Team JR/Horizon member "Big D" Darrell Bell put on another annual
heli event in Detroit.  The field is nice with 3 flight lines. 
About 110 pilots attended including many well known heli pilots 
representing most heli brands.  

Event was 3 days of general flying and demos.  I did some setups for
people and allowed some pilots to fly my Vibe 90SG heli.  
This went well until during one flight with another pilot at the 
controls it boom struck and crashed!  Turns out it was older O-ring 
dampeners and this probably allowed too much blade movement.  
Damage was not too bad,and even though there was a crash, those who
tried it really liked how it flew!

I also flew Super Gracy with SY90 and flybarless Vibe 90SG.
Flybarless helis are becoming very popular, and there were many types 
at this event.

Most pilots had JR servos, JR or Spektrum radios, and about 50% nitro,
50% electric helis.  Seems most pilots like Nitro for bigger helis 
since it is less charging and batteries to carry around.  
Nitro was more popular for 90 size 3D helis.

A great event, relaxed atmosphere with good friends and pilots.
    
    
    

Thank you Scott!

Scottish Helicopter Nationals was held in the Scottish city of Aberdeen on 12-13th/Jun.

Here is a report from Steve from MacGregor.

Several classes of helicopter competition were flown including F3C,
Clubmans F3C, F3N & Scale.

F3C results:

1st   Steve Roberts, Sylphide 90 E, DSX12
2nd  Matt Reuben, Airskipper 90 E, DSX12
3rd   Roger Mayo, Vibe 90, DSX12
4th   Mike Gilfillian, Hirobo Freya, DSX12
5th   Dave Wilshere, MA Ion X, DSX9
6th   Jon Kemp, TT Raptor 90, Futaba

Clubmans:

1st   Stuart McCallum, MA Fury, DSX9
2nd  Jon Gardiner, Trex, Spektrum
3rd   Peter Christy, Vigor, DSX9

F3N:

1st   Craig Tosh, Spektrum
2nd  Sebastian Zajonz, Futaba
3rd   Steve Roberts, Vibe 500E flybarless, DSX12

Scale:

1st    Nikk Clark, DSX9
2nd   Brett Houghton, DSX9
3rd    Pete Christy, DSX9

Picture attached of the F3C winners.

Thank you Steve and  congratulations!!

F3C Italian Championship was held on 26th-27th/Jun.
Here is a report from Alex.

The helicopters were participating in the league and JR Sylphide 12 x 3
and Hirobo eagle x 5 and in particular Hirobo Eagle at the top, then my 
Sylphide and the third  Hirobo again.
We hope to get a good result at the European Championship in Romania. 

 Thank you Alex!

Swiss Nationals and German Championship has been held last weekend.

Here is a report from Andy Kessler from AK MOD.

Now, we got a JR Pilot as German Champion!!

Swiss Nationals

1. Ennio Graber Thunder Power TP5500-6SPL2
2. Hans Emmenegger Airskipper ASG/own TP5500-6SPL2
3. Marc Emmeneger Sylphide E12 TP5500-6SPL2
4. Remo Hürlimann Sylphide E12 TP5500-6SPL2
5. Sepp Gisler Kyosho/own EP
6.Urs Herzog Vibe SG E12 K&S 440-PT3 TP5500-6SPL2
8 Andy Gasser Sylphide E12 TP6600-5S2PPL2
13. Armin Heini Sylphide E10 TP6600-5SPL2

1 pilot flew engine heli!

There will be another team trial event in September.

German Nationals 2nd round.

1. Uwe Kiesewetter  Sylphide E12 K&S 440-PT3 TP5500-6SPL2  JR 11X ZERO
 (German Champion 2010)
2. Stefan Wachsmuth Kyosho EP  TP5500-6SPL2
3. Rene Petersen Sylphide E12
5. Christian Ellermann Sylphide KS EP kit
7. Jörg Tute Sylphide E12 TP5500-6SPL2

After this 2 rounds Uwe Kiesewetter is  already German Champion, because he won 2 rounds.

Congratulations, Uwe

Thank you, Andy

Here is a report from Steve from MacGregor.
Congratulations!

This event was held at RAF (Royal Air Force) Barkston Heath located in 
Lincolnshire in the UK.
Our modelling organisation hold this event for all model power 
disciplines including, F3C, pylon racing, scale & control line
which all attend the event on the same day and use different parts 
of the airfield.

F3C:
1st Steve Roberts JR Sylphide 90 E
2nd Dave Fisher
3rd Mark Christy
4th Roger Mayo JR Vibe 90
5th Matt Reuben JR Airskipper 90

These scores will be added to the scores from our National 
Championships do decide the team for Italy.

  
   

Thank you, Steve!

VARCHA  club event in culpeper Virginia was held on May 19-23rd 2010.

Here is a comment from Scott.

 I was able to fly to the event in Virgina, USA by my own small airplane rather than driving 11 hours! Team JR Bill Tinsley F3C pilot came with me in the airplane to the event. It took about 4 hours flight time, and we had to cross the US border and customs at Niagara Falls New York airport. We put 4 JR 90 size helis, 2 12X transmitters, tools, fuel, and clothes in the back and flew to small airport near the event. The little Piper Cherokee airplane was full and maximum weight!

Also attending the event was Markus Kim famous 3D pilot and Bill Jackson 3D pilot. The event was organized to be 4-day event with us four expert pilots helping student heli pilots to learn better setup and flying techniques. We also used JR buddy box to train with many helis and pilots.

In the end, I setup and tuned about 15-20 helis and flew all of them to check settings and test fly. Everyone seemed very happy to have good setups in their helicopters now and better tuned engines!

 Interestingly, there is increased popularity of F3C style flying lately... many pilots want to try FAI style flying.

We also did many demo flights throughout each day. I flew Vibe90SG flybarless, and SY90 F3C 2009 WC heli many times.

Attendance: approx 30 pilots     

Helis: 5 JR SY90, 5 Vibe 90SG, Vibe 50s, and other helis such as Align, Avant, Minicopter.     

Power: Most helis at this event were Nitro (70% nitro, 30% electric)                

Radios: 90% JR and Spektrum, 10% Futaba

 Thank you!