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A Rare Bird – Official Flights Under 20 Seconds!
MaxMen F1B FO
for 1 and 2
1 Mykola Kovalenko
2 Sevak Malkhasyan
for 3 and 4
3 Jes Nyhegn
4 Bernard Guest
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F1G
120120 120120120180 240
GivenName Family Name 3 LeR1 R2 R3 R4 R5 FO FO 4 TieBTotal
1 Tiffaney Odell USA 120 120 120 120 120 180 240 1020
2 Bernard Guest CAN 120 120 120 120 120 180 201 981
3 Tuvia Fibish ISR 120 120 120 120 1201 80 137 917
4 Walt Ghio USA 120 120 120 120 120 174 774
5 Geralyn Jones USA 120 120 120 120 120 132 732
6 Abraham Baruch ISR 120 120 120 120 120117 717
7 Jeremy Fitch USA 120 120 120 120 120 85 685
8 Evgeny Gorban UKR 120 120 120 120 12 028 628
9 Michael Richardson USA 120 120 120 12089 569
10 Ladislav Horak CAN 102 120 120 86 120 548
11 Kurt Van Nest USA 120 30 120 106120 496
12 Tony Mathews CAN 120 120 0 120120 480
13 Philip Sullivan USA 118 120 120 45 DNF 403
14 Peter Brocks USA 120 120 120 20 DNF 380
15 Patrick MacKenzie CAN 120 2 DNF DNFDNF 122
F1H
120120 120120120180 240
Given NameFamily Name 3 LeR1 R2 R3 R4 R5 FO FO 4 TieBTotal
1 Per Findahl SWE 120 120 120 120 120180 240 282 1302
2 Yuval Bichet ISR 120 120 120 1201 20180 240 223 1243
3 James Parker USA 120 120 120 120 120180 145 925
4 Blake Jensen USA 120 120 120 120120180 142 922
5 Shmuel Sityon CohenPOR 120 120 120 120 120163 763
6 Sagiv Cohen ISR 120 120 120 120 120148 748
F1J
120120 120120120180 240
Given NameFamily Name 3 LeR1 R2 R3 R4 R5 FO FO 4 TieBTotal
1 Randy Secor USA 120 120 120 120 120180 240 378 1398
2 Mike McKeever USA 120 120 120 120 120180 240 345 1365
3 Daryl Perkins USA 1201 20 120 120 120180 240 340 1360
4 Faust Parker USA 1201 20 120 120 120180 240 302 1322
5 Terry Kerger USA 120 120 120 120 120 0 600
F1S
120120 120 120120180 240
Given NameFamily Name 3 LeR1 R2 R3 R4 R5 FO FO 4 TieBTotal
1 Sevak Malkhasyan USA 1201 20 120 1201 20120 180 900
2 David Sechrist USA 1201 20 120 120 120120 141 861
3 Robert Donnelly USA 1201 20 120 120 120120 132 852
4 Jack Murphy USA 1201 20 120 120 120120 112 832
5 Julie Parker USA 1201 20 120 120 120120 104 824
6 John Cooper GBR 1201 20 120 120 120120 96 816
7 Clint Brooks USA 1201 17 120 120 120 597
8 Shmuel Sityon CohenPOR 120 93 120 120 120 573
9 Janna Van Nest USA 120 120 120 120 93 573
10 Benjamin Tarcher USA 1209 7 103 56 120 496
11 Lynn Edmondson USA 120 DNF DNF DNFDNF 120
A Rare Bird – Official Flights Under 20 Seconds!
By Aram Schlosberg
Flight times are recorded in
full seconds – times are rounded to the nearest second. The midpoint 0.5 is rounded up to the next second (Sporting code F1.2.6 Time recorded). For example, 179.5 seconds flight is rounded up to 180 seconds while 179.49 is rounded as 179 seconds.
Another portion of the sporting code covers attempts that include a flight under 20 seconds (3.1.5.f) stating “The recorded duration of the flight is less than 20 seconds”. This means that a flight of 19.99 seconds is an attempt, while a flight of 20 seconds is official.
At the Maxmen F1E contest on Thursday Feb 16th a flier launched his F1E but the stab was over elevated and after a brief series of stalls the model hit the ground. His two timers clocked 19.5 and 19.6 seconds. According to (3.1.5.f) it was an attempt. To my surprise it was ruled as an OFFICIAL FLIGHT of 20 seconds applying the rounding up rule (F1.2.6).
But the rounding up rule does not trump other rules. A sub 20 second flight is always an attempt. Period. (Only if the flier did not make another flight that round their official time would have been 20 seconds.)
Maybe (3.1.5.f) should be tweaked to something like “the actual duration” to rid us from these rare birds. ///