Austria’s Luca Aringer, age 15 (at left), flew F1C and F1A very competently. 2013 F1C World Champion Roy Summersby (above) of Australia flew an all- carbon Babenko folder. USA’s Ken Happersett (below right) ready for the first F1C fly-off round. Flag is a wind indicator. Austria’s Luca Aringer (below left), ready to start his F1C for the first fly-off.


2013 World F/F Championships Results F1A 1. Robert Lesko, Croatia 1290 +300 +420 +445


2. Szilard Szijjarto, Romania 1290 +300 +420 +421 3. Victor Stamov, Ukraine 1290 +300 +420 +380 16. Andrew Barron, USA 35. Ken Bauer, USA


53. Mike McKeever, USA F1B


1. Albert Bulatov, Russia


1290 +300 +420 +294 1290 +300 +330 1290 +300 +149


2. Ismet Yurtseven, Turkey 1320 +300 +291 3. Brian Pacelli, USA* 11. Alex Andrjukov, USA 12. George Batiuk, USA 32. Walt Ghio, USA


1320 +300 +385 1320 +300 +274


1320 +290 1320 +285 1316


*2012 Jr. World Champion F1C


1. Roy Summersby, Australia 1320 +300 +420 +540 +447 2. Evgeny Verbitski, Ukraine 1320 +300 +420 +540 +321 3. Nikolai Rekhin, Russia 9. Don Chesson, USA 12. Mike Roberts, USA 29. Ken Happersett, USA


1320 +300 +420 +529 1320 +300 +420 +467 1320 +300 +420 +458 1320 +300 +382


FLYING MODELS


F1C Team 1. Israel


2. Czech Republic 3. USA


F1A Team


1. Argentina 2. Italy 3. Israel 4. USA


F1B Team


1. USA 2. Poland 3. Russia


only Don and Mike made it through to the nine-minute round, flown in cooler weather as the sun went down.


Finally two flyers, the 2011 World Cham- pion Evgeny Verbitski of Ukraine and Aus- tralia’s Roy Summersby, had managed nine minutes and, with the light now gone, had to return early the next morning to decide the winner, with the max set at 12 minutes. Roy flew a folder with a carbon-skinned wing produced by Artem Babenko. In fact, he had four of them. Evgeny, the Grand Old Man of F1C flew a more normal model, a high as- pect ratio flapper. Roy launched first for a perfect pattern, with Evgeny flying later with an engine run that sounded a bit off song. After he landed Roy was still airborne, finally landing with a flight over two min- utes longer.


The US F1C team had to settle for the team bronze medal, with Israel in the gold spot and the Czech Republic the silver. How- ever, the icing on the cake was that the over- all combined scores for all three classes gave the United States the Challenge France Tro- phy, along with a team gold and bronze and an individual bronze that well repaid the en- thusiasm, practice and skill that the US team devoted to the 2013 World Free Flight Championships.


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