Grand Prix

Unfortunately, we couldn't practice on the Friday before the grand prix, so we had to wait until the next morning and fly at the practice site some 15min from the main field. We played around with the top ends a little bit, and managed to get the 2 practice models going okay.

Round one went well - we drew Sosnovsky and Dhozodaev and still cranked out a 3:13 with a couple of bad starts. We figured this would make the semis so we switched to our slowest model to get some flying practice. Unfortunately, we cooked pretty badly in the sound round and had to retire.

The next day we got decent settings on both the engines, and put in a 3:14 or 15 with the old model and psyched up for the semis.

These went badly imho. The weather changed dramatically between the rounds and the semis, and so we went up lean into the first round, dropped some airspeed, and only did a 3:20. The second heat was going well for a 3:10 or so, when the tank stuffed up and caused the motor to quit on the second stop. So, DNF and no final place for us. We wound up in 5th, behind Surugue-Surugue, Samellson-Axtillius, Ougen-Surugue, and Sosnovsky and his pilot.

But it wasn't all bad as Dad came 18th(!!!!!!!!) out of over 70 entries (!!!!!!!!) in F2B, so it was his shout at the bar.

Opening today, so I think we'll take it easy, and maybe go through the rest of our tanks to make sure the same problems don't repeat themselves.

Au Revior!