2008 World F2 Control Line Championships
The British F2A Speed Team, consisting of Peter Halman, Paul Eisner and Ken Morrisey, has once again taken the Team Gold Medal at the F2 Control Line World Championships in Landres, France. Their combined speed was 881.8 k.p.h. beating Hungary’s 863.9 k.p.h. into second place, by 17.9 k.p.h. with Italy’s 863.6 k.p.h. in third place.
This is the 12th consecutive year of World & European Championships that the speed team have taken the gold medal, an unprecedented achievement by any team in any category of model flying anywhere in the world.
Peter Halman was placed fourth with a best flight of 295.8 k.p.h. using the “Halman Special” Irvine engine. The contest was very close as he was only 0.1 k.p.h. from third place, and 0.5 k.p.h. behind the winner. Ken Morrissey placed sixth with a speed of 294.7 k.p.h. with Paul Eisner placed tenth with a speed of 291.3 k.p.h.
In F2B Aerobatics, Robert Kitley placed forty third, Barry Robinson placed forty fourth and Roy Cherry was fiftieth. The overall team placing was thirteenth.
All three F2C team team race teams were hopeful of making the semi-finals but with a cut off time a very fast 3 minutes 11.4 seconds it was going to be a very tough task. In the end, Mike Fitzgerald and Mark Thomason finished fifteenth with a fastest time of 3 minutes 15.5 seconds, Rob Leeman and John Broadhead were twenty first with a fastest time of 3 minutes 22.5 seconds and Malcolm Ross and Gordon Yeldham were twenty eighth with a fastest time of 3 minutes 29.5. As a team they were placed sixth.
Finally, in the F2D Combat category, Mervyn Jones placed eighth, Mike Whillance was twentieth with the team placing ninth.
John James