Neiderkassel (Germany) 2013

Here’s some interesting shots taken at this unique meeting. The rules require both day and night flying, with the best score from each making up the contestant’s final score. Stephans Tigercat is based on Jan Odeyn’s old Tigercat design with a lot of modifications, including a very nice finish (paintjob and cowlings). I hear that for his night flying, he had the model lit up like a Christmas tree with lots of lights, including a searchlight.

Another of the contestants, Max Uttien, writes: “We had a good competition in Niederkassel-Rheidt, Germany, just below Cologne (Köln), thanks to Robert and Axel! The meeting is a two-day celebration of control line flying, team racing, combat, semi-scale, stunt F2b, old time stunt and of course carrier. The first day was windy and rainy, but everything was not too bad.In the evening; the carrier night flying in the dark with lighting by chemical sticks was very realistic; happily, the second day was dry with virtually no wind.The clear message from the meeting was ‘If you want to win in Basic Carrier Deck you’ll have to build an Electric Grumman Tigercat following Jan Odeyn’s plan VERY closely!”

Thanks also to Robert Schultz for sending me the final results, which you’ll find below. Enjoy the pictures!

 
Awaiting the call of duty! Do I detect some 2.4ghz technology here?
A bonus for the contestants – a full-size “Auntie Ju” Ju52 overflew on both days
Tigercat ready for takeoff!
A look at the super finish in daylight

RESULTS!

NeiderKassel BCD Meeting, September 14/15 2013
Weather: Cool, Saturday wet and windy, calming to good on Saturday night & Sunday
Pos Pilot Day/Night Aircraft Engine Fast 7 Slow 7 Time Landing Deduct Scale Colour Total
1 Jan 30.9 185.9 155.00 100 10 10 275.00
Odeyn Night 37.4 186.7 149.30 100 10 10 269.30
30.5 175.9 145.40 100 10 10 265.40
(BEL) 31.2 155.3 124.10 100 10 10 244.10
31.5 184.0 152.50 100 10 10 272.50
2 Stephan 30.9 174.0 143.10 100 2 10 10 261.10
Raetsch Night Attempt DQ
Night 32.4 174.0 141.60 100 10 10 261.60
28.6 159.8 131.20 100 2 10 10 249.20
(GER) 28.7 178.9 150.20 100 1 10 10 269.20
3 Bob Attempt DQ
Phillipps Attempt DQ
29.8 Attempt DQ
(GB) 30.2 108.9 78.70 0 10 10 98.70
Night 30.3 148.9 118.60 100 10 10 238.60
29.0 133.1 104.10 100 10 10 224.10
29.0 Attempt DQ
29.4 136.5 107.10 0 10 10 127.10
4 Detlef 31.9 130.0 98.10 0 10 10 118.10
Karrasch 32.7 132.9 100.20 100 1 10 10 219.20
(GER) Night 31.0 149.1 118.10 100 10 10 238.10
5 Robert 31.0 89.9 58.90 0 10 10 78.90
Schulze Attempt DQ
32.4 108.5 76.10 100 10 10 196.10
35.4 Attempt DQ
Night 36.6 113.4 76.80 100 10 10 196.80
6 Mark 31.5 Disq. DQ
Berckmans 38.1 Attempt DQ
30.2 94.8 64.60 100 1 10 10 183.60
(Bel) Night 37.0 A DQ
Night 39.0 120.0 81.00 0 10 10 101.00
Night 31.8 118.9 87.10 100 10 10 207.10
Night 31.8 113.9 82.10 100 10 10 202.10
7 Max leider 27.0 72.6 45.60 60 10 10 125.60
Uttien nicht 27.3 Attempt DQ
28.3 64.9 36.60 100 10 10 156.60
27.4 55.8 28.40 100 10 10 148.40
32.1 96.5 64.40 0 10 10 84.40
NL 32.3 87.9 55.60 0 10 10 75.60
Statistics for the Anoraks!
Fastest fast 27.00 Completed Flights% 74 %
Slowest fast 39.00 100pt Landings% 71 %
Average fast 31.56 Night Flying% 26 %
Fastest slow 55.80
Slowest slow 186.70
Average slow 130.39

 

Notes from Robert Schultz:

Another control-line model flying competition running from 06:30 through to 01:00 the following morning! Verhäldnisse (?Lightsticks?) were fixed to the extremities of the aircraft
for flying, day and night. I’m still hoping to get more pictures of the night flying. Everyone had 4 attempts to fly, with three best counting, day and night, although no-one used all their flights.

If you analyse the scores you’ll see that it seems easier to fly at night than during the day!

Many thanks to: Daytime scorer: Paul Ried, Nighttime scorer: Robert Schultz, Support: Graf Zeppelin (Editor’s guess – the carrier itself, I believe!)

 

 

 

 

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