GBR Flyers win Team Silver in F1D World Championships.
The 2008 F1D Indoor World Championships have just taken place in a huge domed exhibition hall in Belgrade, Serbia.
The hall is over 90 feet high. The British team of Bob Bailey, Mark Benns and Derek Richards flew their fragile 22 inch wingspan rubber powered free flight models for 3 gruelling days in temperatures up to 39 degrees. Excellent support came from Peter Ing and John Shaw.
The competition is all about duration, with many single flights of over 30 minutes. Each flyer has 6 attempts and his 2 longest flights are totalled to produce his individual score. The 3 scores from each country are added together in the team event. Although the American team were clear winners, the British total of 3:14:52 was enough to secure Silver medal position, ahead of the Hungarian flyers.
In the preceding Open International contests, Mark Benns won the 35 cm wingspan class, Bob Bailey was second while Peter Ing came 4th and John Shaw 5th.
Nick Aikman. GBR Team Manager.