A bit old but a nice coverage of the World Championship F3J 2010:
Airpsports TV coverage

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We all arrived safely home so here are more pictures:
All from Gunn and the girls when they were in Paris HERE
All the good ones from Stein Marius HERE
All from Jojo, Gunn and Fredrik HERE

On the road home
Stein Marius had a lot of good pictures I will sort in time. Here is a few I had to put out at once ;)
Nick Kidd always have a good bunch. He will put out more as he goes thru them. Check HERE

All the finalists and helpers. Both seniors and juniors

Team Norway in final

Team Norway 2010 before the price giving.
Sadly Erik, Charles and the girls were not in the picture.

7.august - World Champs sixth and last day (Saturday)
We started with 1 slot of senior that only one person flew full time. Pavel took them all! Then we had 2 junior flyoff rounds and a reflight of the last group sadly. Last senior round was easy flying again so the it was only the first places that it was a battle of.
We had very little time to do other than pack as the guided tour started 10min after the finish so did not get the results. But here is the scores I found on internet about seniors. Juniors Brendon Beardsley won (yes the one that got safety penalty).
A big hug to all the Norwegian team members that made this possible. With had a great time. Also a big hug to all my international friends on site and those that followed us on internet!

Jojo was last seen at the pool with pink champagne...

Some went on the trip to the wine castle in Arbois and lunch in Dole. The food tasted ok served on plastic plates but there was no wine castle....

Fredrik flew Nemo in every break. Stig took over launching in the finals

Jojo landing

 

6.august - World Champs fifth day (Friday)
Last round was flown and we got Jojo in the flyoff finishing 10th and well into the 15 that goes to the flyoff. Then we flew 4 finals. Sadly Jojo flew one with launch flap all 15 min and missed the landing a bit. Then he missed a thermal in a very short launch and got his dropped score. Lets see tomorrow. Still anything can happen as we will fly first two senior rounds at 08:00 tomorrow morning. And usually the first couple of slots are difficult.

5.august - World Champs fourth day (thursday)
Someone mentioned a landing contest. That is officially over from today. What about flying straight and get 1:18 when someone else wins with full time flying just slightly different direction after launch!
It was calm in the morning and then the wind picked up. Left a few drops of rain now and then and turbulent conditions. Then we finished of with some calm flights in the evening just slowly circling the air if you could spot it. The Norwegian team had some seriously bad flights and some good. Per is then most unlucky of us getting smashed a model in flight and going down after rx-battery failure (first we thought it might be something else but investigation pays of). The juniors flies marvelous if they just get something to work on. Jojo is hanging in there and moved up to 9th place after 10 rounds and got a good flight in for the last slot of the day (slot 3 round 11 so round not finished yet). Results round 11 slot 2 HERE and round 11 slot 1 HERE.
Lennart from Sweden was also lucky/unlucky as he landed out and switched model but forgot to push confirm on his radio. It smacked into ground just meters away from us. The officials brought the plane to his wife that just had collected his model that landed out. She refused and said it could not be swedish as she just collected that...
My best feelings goes to David Hobby that had to drop out because of eye problems. He will be back.
Pictures today from me, Stein Marius and Gunn.
No time to check other blogs but here is what Stig writes (in Norwegian):
Lillehammer competition link

Fiat!! - Per's damage

Erik and Charles in the middle!!

Fredrik on television

Fredrik happy - Kari, Nina Karoline and Gunn made hamburgers. Love you!

The French enjoying a break for them ;)

Most wanted new winch producer on the market.
Alois Hrabacek from Czech Republic (this years national champion in czech) has started production of a winch that seems very well thought out. The legs are foldable and will be adjustable (not showing on picture). Nice touch adjust for F3B power and all solid built. They are thinking about 800EUR and that sounds right. New motors used and endplate on drum detachable. Can be reached thru Samba I think.

4.august - World Champs third day (wedensday)
Calm - sunny - bubbly - windy - we got it all today. We all get some hits but have a great time. Jojo (me got to fly probably 2km downwind LOW just to get home 1km and hook up again to go downwind. Then back and was short 8meters and landed at 9:18. The best flight of the competition for me ;) Sold some lines to the Americans and filmed Cody blow up his light plane. Wow what a sight! Scores are on the official WC site I see though not rd7 (sorry I dont have it either). A bit tired (typical wedensday so you were right Tor!!) so here is some pictures (Gunn and Fredrik):

3.august - World Champs second day (tuesday)
OK then. Some difficult morning rounds and some of the late rounds also... But in beetween it was mostly easy for most as long as you did not get in beetween in low speed. Some of the big shots landed out and some did some midairs. Some are happy and some have nerves. It is typical of a WC. The Norwegian team have their nicks with some bad rounds but Jojo (me) and Stein Marius (junior) are doing fairly well and well seated in the top. Though it is hard stuff and a top placing needs short launching and some pin point landings.
A video on its way out on Vimeo
Results after 4 rounds seniors and 2rd junior (sorry dont have rd3 jun)
Seniors after 4 rounds - page2 - Junior after 2 rounds
details rounds senior: 1st / p2- 2nd / p2 - 3rd / p2 - 4th / p2
details rounds juniors: 1st - 2nd

Stig working on Per's fuse that got a heavy downwind landing.
The fancy D-box carbon/kevlar is from Vladimirs models and they can be bought as spares. We used some of it inside the fuse

Nina Karoline (Per's daughter) was in Paris with the girls. She bought sunglasses for 350EUR!!!!!!!! Second picture is Perfect fuse with honeycomb.

2.august - World Champs first day
Field is a mess and wet but the organizers have put together tent pieces and most of the teams are now in shade again after the storm yesterday. Thanks! That was good because the rain came again and we got no official flying today other than practice. All teams got their models checked by the officials (a big painstaking thing that takes time each wc). Paolo and wife ruled while Sydney chimed in for the model processing.
We had a good team manager meeting today were Serdar explained that we needed to have the safety area because of local goverment (they got a 4 page written thing sadly) and the 2.4 transmitters does not need to be taken in. Serdar will be CD for the WC (he was CD also in Turkey).
Very nice to see that they had proper meeting for the time keepers and I listened in a bit. They got very strict and good information it seemed.

Stack of Norwegian models for WC - Dinner on Monday

Our Horny Norwegian lady.. ;) - Michelle with new baby - Officials getting prepared

1.august Jura Cup last day (precompetition)
A bit windy compared to yesterday but not more than a small ballast was needed. Norwegian team is fairly happy though we dropped a bit after discard was done. Jojo dropped 30 points only and was in 36th and Stig Magne in 39th (of 178 pilots). That is very few points!
After the competition they held opening ceremony that we almost did not get to since we only found that people gathered for something.. a display of various flying and price giving. Just as we finished the lightning displayed in the far south and rain came upon us as we flew some of Stein Marius's models with a new transmitter (something failed for the 3rd time this season). He lost control half way up on launch and the model flew for 8 min downwind before it ended in a field with only fuse damaged!! The wind picked up a lot and heavy rain made us try to save our models and tent. The official tent we held on to just dissapeared out of our arms and many others with it. Kind of cool and wet to be there.... Check the picture of the english guys trying to save their tent. They lost some models sadly that flew away.
Cody Remington won the Jura cup with a 100 and 99 landing and first flight was 14:58,? (did not get the last digit).
Results Finals HERE - Prelimin page 1 - page 2 - page 3 - page 4

31.july Jura Cup day 1
A long day in +30 celcius is over and in sometimes difficult conditions. Though it was mostly bubling at low altitude so low saves was the deal of the day. It is hard time for a freezing Norwegian in these temperatures but we survive as the girls is serving us food and a large team helps a lot.
The team is testing a bit the limits and that can be seen on the results. But it is by purpose. 178 competors wanted to fly (many have withdrawn for various reasons) and it was cool with sometimes 19 pilots in the air.
Results are only after 3 rounds as we they had a problem with a few results.
Results page 1 - page 2 - page 3 - page 4

Sun coming up at 06:45

Sun coming up. photo by Stein Marius Pedersen

Aussie team at 07:00

30.july 2010
All team arrived yesterday safely and all planes are with us.
Today (Friday) have been used to get installed on the field and a trip to the centre of Dole. Also very nice to meet up with all our friends in the community. Very nice town with lots of small streets and buildings to look at. Tomorrow starts Jura Cup and a briefing was held (without us knowing but we managed to get there...). Earlier in the day we understood that they wanted impound of all 2.4 transmitters and also some strange security zones. This means there will be a lot of running with transmitters and lots of extra people on the launch corridor. We have 19 lanes + reflight lanes so a long way to walk especially when they have only 3min preperation time. --txt removed as a thnx-- ;)
The team is in high spirit and take the Jura Cup as practice and a way to get things organized. We also got Brian Johnson and Jon Stanswood from UK in our team and they are great guys with lots of laughs.

Team practice for the World Championship F3J in France
Read all about it HERE

World Championship F3J 2010 and Jura Cup
Norway is proud to present a large team for the World Championship in France. We have now entered 8 pilots in the Jura Cup (219 pilots as of 18/1-10) and 3 seniors and 2 juniors in the World Champs.

Check the official WC site HERE and Jura Cup HERE 

This is the site of the Norwegian team F3J 2010
The link to this place for direct and fast access should be:
www.F3X.no/F3J/2010
Jojo also have a diary HERE
All pictures unless noted Jo Grini

Team Norway:
Seniors: Jo Grini, Per Pedersen and Jostein Myre
Juniors: Stein Marius Pedersen, Fredrik Grini
Helpers/pilots: Stig Magne Olsen and Charles Obschonka
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