Did anyone else realize that Lutz's 2012 victory comes on the 50-year anniversary of Karl-Heinz Rieke's win at the 1962 Championship in Cardington? Rieke was the first champion from Germany.
The other German winner was Hans Beck in 1966 at Debrecen. I'm sure everyone knew that.
--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "Yuan Kang Lee" <ykleetx@...> wrote:
>
> I overlooked Schramm as a gold medal contender. His record in the past 10 years is pretty good :)
>
> 2004 Slanic 2nd
> 2006 Slanic 3rd
> 2008 Belgrade 2nd
> 2010 Belgrade 3rd
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> In European Championship:
>
> 2011 Belgrade 2nd
> 2009 Belgrade 3rd
> 2007 Belgrade 1st
> 2005 Bordeaux 5th
> 2003 London 1st
>
> I have heard from multiple sources that one thing Lutz did differently this year was to fly closer to the ceiling than in the past. Lutz is not known to be a good steerer and has followed a conservative game plan of flying lower and out of the drift. Perhaps the drift was tamer this year?
>
>
> --- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "Mark_Benns" <mark.benns@> wrote:
> >
> > Chaps... Having watched both Lutz and Ivan for the last 6 years I can tell you that thermals are not a factor to concern anyone. Firstly Belgrade is a difficult hall to fly in, usually with strong drift anywhere from mid height and severe turbulence / drift close to the ceiling. Mastering steering is a must as is staying off the ceiling. the CofG is also a fundamental that has to be carefully considered to ensure you effortlessly climb through the sticky air and recover quickly from any slight stall, dive endured by air movement.
> >
> > Ivan's model is poetry in flight, whatever the prop rpm it maintains an impressive forward momentum and looks in absolute balance. It flies with a minimum attitude and climbs steadily without anything dramatic... Storing it's rubbers energy for the let down.
> >
> > Lutz flies very similar but with thinner rubber using far more turns than us mere mortals, again balance is perfection as is the attitude. Lutz will not mind me saying that steering is his main obstacle from achieving 40min flights.
> >
> > Crack the attitude,CofG balance and steering and you have the answers... My personal theory and years development will be to closely consider the tail planes performance and influence on the models attitude.
> >
> > Both fliers have demonstrated their skills consistently over the years and I am sure will break the 40min barrier in a Cat3 hall very soon.
> >
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > --- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, Jake Palmer <82.jake@> wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm not saying thermals aren't contributing, but Treger had 4 flights over
> > > 37 minutes. That kind of consistency leads me to believe that 37 is a
> > > baseline for his model in Belgrade and not an anomaly. The 39 minute
> > > flights by Treger in 2010 and Schramm this year are definitely outliers
> > > that were helped by the air. Everyone other than Schramm and Treger seem
> > > to have a baseline of 35 or less.
> > >
> > > As far as elliptical wings are concerned, I'm not personally convinced.
> > > Treger is doing quite well with a wing similar to everyone else.
> > > Considering how much extra work is involved to build one I plan to stick
> > > with a more traditional wing. That said, they are quite beautiful.
> > >
> > > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Mark F1diddler <f1diddler_at_> wrote:
> > >
> > > > **
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, Jake Palmer <82.jake@>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > <<After this year's champs it seems that thermals have been pretty well
> > > > eliminated as the primary candidate.>>
> > > >
> > > > Thermals/great air don't appear eliminated to me if one's good, base
> > > > flights are around 35-36 but with an occasional 37, and then one 39
> > > > (considering past frew WCs.) Of course, the question remains how to become
> > > > somewhat "regular" with 35-36 min flights.
> > > >
> > > > Doubt if the big answer will be to abandon one's wing shape to "go
> > > > elliptical," but I'm sure some will try, and report enthusiastically. Good
> > > > results in competition mostly prove that a given non-traditional design
> > > > feature _doesn't hurt_. Then maybe some day that feature becomes
> > > > "traditional". Then 10 years later, someone rediscovers that the original,
> > > > passe' feature doesn't hurt either, but is easier to build.
> > > >
> > > > > >What are Treger and Schramm doing that makes their models perform so
> > > > well in Belgrade?>>
> > > >
> > > > Let's hope the US team has some insights there. Anyhow, I'll bet the
> > > > winners could have traded models with each other and probably done equally
> > > > well. My question is, could they have taken a 33 minute model from anyone
> > > > else, and bumped it up to 36? I've often wished to do similar (trade
> > > > models) with other modelers at contests just to begin to isolate the
> > > > question of flyer quality vs. model quality. But there's never time, and
> > > > maybe not another willing competitor. And if I accidentally broke my
> > > > friend's models, I would then feel bad if he didn't break mine. Possibly no
> > > > fun there.
> > > > MB
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
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