SEFSD F5B/D Page
The 1996 USA F5B and F5D teams are both based
in southern California. here is some information about them and
the competition in The Czech Republic.
Both the USA F5B & F5D Teams. (Starting at the upper left and
moving clockwise): Troy Peterson, Larry Jolly, Bob Sliff, Jerry
Bridgeman, Dave Palombo (Aveox), Thomas Pils, Steve Neu, Danny
Vozenilek.
The USA F5B Team. (Starting at the upper left and moving
clockwise): Bob Sliff; Team Manager, Thomas Pils, Jerry
Bridgeman, Steve Neu, Dave Palombo (Aveox).
Winners of the International Contest. (Left to right): Rudi
Freudenthaler; second, Steve Neu; first, Jerry Bridgeman; third.
This message from delago@dox.ul.bawue.de (Johann Delago) distributed by EFLIGHT! Just returned from the Electric Worlds in Benesov, Czech Republic. Here are the final results: F5B Electric Gliders, individual - motor(s) in brackets: 1. Franz Weissgerber, Germany (Kontronik, MEB) 2. Florian Lang, Germany (Kontronik, MEB) 3. Urs Leodolter, Switzerland (Robbe Rovox) 4. Guntmar Rueb, Germany (Plettenberg) 5. Rudolf Freudenthaler, Austria (Plettenberg) 6. Thomas Pils, USA (Aveox) 7. Jerry Bridgeman, USA (Aveox) 8. Steve Neu, USA (Aveox) 9. Erich Schilling, Switzerland (Robbe Rovox) (51 participants) A few short notes on F5B: Max. number of legs flown in F5B was 36! - - by Franz Weissgerber (2 times) and Guntmar Rueb (1 time). The headline should read "Thank You America!" because it was the US team which introduced an interesting and unusual "2 legs per climb" style in competition. Its initial success made for quite a few pale faces in competing teams at first. Some were learning slowly (all those who did serious numbers of training flights during the last months), some fast (those who didn't <g>). In fact the german team choose not to copy the US style which consists of "looping" thru the course (the climb is kinda square 1/2 loop upwards, then fly the first leg inverted, then a half loop down). Instead, they flew the course flat and close to the ground, basically using the motor not to climb but to *accelerate*. - ---- F5B Electric Gliders, team: 1. Germany 2. USA 3. Austria 4. Switzerland 5. Italy 6. Denmark 7. Sweden 8. Australia 9. Czech Republic 10. France 11. United Kingdom 12. Netherlands 13. Japan 14. Poland 15. Canada 16. Slovak Republic 17. Belgium - ---- F5D Electric Pylon, individual: 1. Stefan Merz, Germany 2. Martin Schlief, Germany 3. Florian Schambeck, Germany 4. Jens Bartels, Germany 5. Ferry Koot, Netherlands 6. Wolfgang Zauner, Austria 7. Peter Meisinger, Austria 8. Gregg Voak, Australia 9. Larry Jolly, USA 10 Hans Koot, Netherlands 11 Troy Peterson, USA 12 Ray V.D.Klok, Netherlands 13 Renzo Razzi, Italy 14 Maurizio Giorgetti, Italy 15 Edward Wowry, Poland 16 Moreno Lippi, Italy 17 Brian Green, Australia 18 Mani Riederich, Australia 19 Daniel Vozenilek, USA 20 Marek Czuba, Poland (25 participants) Stefan Merz flew a new F5D world record with 83.4 seconds, using the new Lehner brushless motor. - ---- TEAM RESULTS - CATEGORY F5D: Pl. Country Competitors Pts. Day l Day 2 Day 3 1. GERMANY (Merz, Schlief, Bartels) 830.8 1939.4 2462.8 2. NETHERLANDS (Koot, Koot, V.D.Klok) 997.2 2264.3 2849.0 3. USA (Jolly, Peterson, Vozenilek) 999.1 2376.4 3435.2 5, ITALY (Giorgetti, Lipp, Razzi) 1065.0 3188.3 3451.7 4. AUSTRALIA (Green, Voak, Riederich) 1029.1 3548.1 3831.5 6. POLAND (Czuba. Olszowka, Wowry) 2122.6 4247.2 4810.0 7. AUSTRIA (Zauner, Meisinger) 2632.4 5432.0 7335.8 8. KAZAKHSTAN (Lekomtsev, Karjuk) 3838.7 7264.6 9243.4 9. UNITED KINGDOM (Chinery) 5115.2 10008.4 13272.9 Lemme add that I really enjoyed talking with all those nice guys in the US team. It's a pity that they didn't have better luck but we sure will meet and have fun again next time, at the next electric worlds!