S5 Scale Altitude Team - Juniors - Abby Clark, Ellis Langford, & Fritz Langford. Seniors - Tom Campbell, James Duffy, & Dr. Bob Kreutz | | S7 Scale Team Juniors - Ellis Langford, Fritz Langford, & Alex Bruccoleri Seniors - Tom Campbell, Bob Biedron, & George Gassaway Ellis Langford went on to take Bronze in S7, and the Junior team won Bronze as well! | |
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Bob Biedron & Jay Marsh look over some of the S7 models | Bob Biedron looks at Alexander Levykh's Soyuz. | Levykh's Soyuz was in 1st place in Static, but had a cato & was unable to make a qualified flight. It took 4th on static points alone (Catos count). | Notice the extreme detailing. |
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Detailing on a top Polish Saturn-IB model | Detailing on Bob Biedron's Ariane | Arnis Baca's Soyuz was 2nd place in static. Unfortunately it crashed and DQ'ed. | More S7 models, plus S5 models |
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and more.... | and more.... | US Team S5 Junior models in center, Senior Team Bumper-Wacs at right. | |
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Team walks to the opening ceremonies | Hotel Sport in background | Bridges across one of the rivers that flooded many areas of the Czech Republic, including Kralupy | Ceremonies held in an auditorium in Kralupy |
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Day one dawns at the Sazena airfield. The airfield is used for full-sized sailplanes | Overview of launch area. | Jay Marsh, Kevin Kuczek, and Dave O'Bryan flying S6 (Streamer) | A Slovenian S1 (Altitude) model |
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Tony Reynolds gets his S1 model ready for launch as Chad Ring looks on. | S8-P model check-in. Phil Barnes (right) looks at two models using flaperons. Phil was 4th in the WSMC event, but WON the World Cup event on Saturday. | S8-P landing area. Two models really ARE stuck nose-first into the ground, no Photoshop tricks. | A pilot in a futile run to turn in his transmitter before the 12 minute flying window ends. He was DQ'ed. |
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Junior Team manager John Langford talking to Ellis Langford, Fritz Langford, and Abby Clark during S5 (Scale Altitude) | Senior S5 team getting ready to fly. (l-r) James Duffy, Mark Petrovich*, Tom Campbell, Jay Marsh*, & Dr. Bob Kreutz (* - helpers) | Tom Campbell's Bumper-Wac used B6-0 staged to a Delta B2. Launched from a Piston-Tower | Tom's Bumper-Wac during boost. Wind was from left to right, model straightened up to about vertical at staging. |
| | Kevin Kuczek took the Silver medal in S9! | |
Spanish S9 Copter model, using split chord blades. | Slovenian S9 model which used 6 skinny chord blades. | | |
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Tom Campbell and Jay Marsh prep Tom's Saturn-IB. | Tomwith his Saturn-IB. | George preparing Shuttle for Flight | Shuttle Flight Video by Ross Hironaka |
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Judging scores for George's Shuttle | Judging scores for Tom's Saturn-IB | Static Scores for S7 | |