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Oliver Missbach [Sysop] (Oliver)

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Noch ein kleiner Bericht zum diesjährigen RAK in der Schweiz, den mir Stuart heute zugeschickte:

----- Original Message -----
From: Loggi
To: Oliver Missbach
Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 8:03 PM
Subject: Re: RAK2000 & Juerg Thuring


Hi Oliver..

THANKS FOR the help. I send you my report of RAK2000 that will be published in AEROMODELLER.. Argh !! ..nearly forgot - I have lost many of my e-mail addresses...do you have one for Adolf & Martin Pospisil ?

MILLENNIUM PARTY IN TURILAND...
RAK2000, Oberkulm 28-30 April 2k
10 CONSECUTIVE SWISS RAK CUPS for your scribe !! Well done, Turi Hunziker of Modellfluggruppe Kulm for organising the most fun-filled World Cup space models event in the calendar - it seems to get better every year ! Retreat to Turiland means schnapps with Feldschloesshen chasers, Kaffee mit Pflumli, a two day party and an action-packed contest programme, normally culminating in Italy’s Antonio Mazzaracchio being granted the freedom of Oberkulm for another year...

Competitors from Germany, Slovenia, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, United Kingdom and the hosts, slugged it out in the classic World Cup disciplines of S6A-Streamer Duration, S8E RC Rocket Glider, as well as open internationals in S4B-Boost Glider, S8E/P-Rocket Glider Spot Landing, Swiss "Lamprey" S3A-Parachute Duration and Egg Loft Duration. But before we start - FAI Space Modelling...how do you join the Interspace set ?!?

Sporting Calendar.. BMFA publishes the FAI:CIAM Sporting Calendar in January of each year - the Space Modelling section comprising some fifteen events this year, all over the continent of Europe - this year including the inaugural "Rockets & Things" 1st Canterbury Cup, 4-6 August. To take part requires an FAI Licence - available from BMFA and details of the contest in question, obtained by writing/faxing/’phoning/e-mailing the contact in the calendar. Summer practice takes place at Southern England Rocket Flyers’ get-togethers...and yes, contest rockets with special propellants are needed, as different from the run of Estes’ products as a Fiesta is from Formula One...

Training.. Luck favours your scribe, having access to free and privilege rate rail travel in the UK & Europe. Thomas Cook’s European Timetable provides excellent bedtime reading and a valid passport, a fistful of Deutschmarks and/or Swiss Francs (safe options on most journeys). The rocket box, easily transportable on most trains, makes a great travelling companion and a perpetual curiosity to border guards and Customs Officials.. Eurostar is a real boon, making speedily accessible those two vital staging points for all itineraries, Paris & Brussels. RAK2000 needed the 08:23 Eurostar to Paris gare du Nord at 12:23 real time, a brisk hike to gare de l’Est and the 13:12 to Mulhouse, before arriving at Basel at 18:36. A local service deposited scribe & box at Olten 30 minutes later, to be collected and whisked off to Oberkulm for registration. Accommodation is a nuclear bunker - safe and sound !!

RAK2000 S6A-Streamer Duration & S8E-RCRocket Glider World Cups, backed up with rounds 1 &2 of S4B-Boost Glider, filled up Saturday 29 April - the remains of S4B, Lamprey Parachute Duration, S8E/P Rocket Glider Spot Landing and Egg Loft topped up Sunday. Would we get good weather this year ? This is where the medals went...

S6A-Streamer Duration World Cup Antonio Mazzaracchio (ITA), Bartosz Boniecki (POL), Joze Cuden (SLO) and Vladimir Mosin (LTU) - 1999 World Cup holder and Sportsman of the Year in the Lithuanian Airlines in-flight glossy.. - fronted up the big hitters in Space Modelling’s most fiercely contested category. Most employed a 5g composite delivery system, with a metre-plus long streamer; Delta 2.5 Newton second (Ns) motors are Go ! ..180s is Max and in the cool but calm conditions, scoring promised to be good - indeed, there was only one zero recorded in the entire contest. Bartosz Boniecki, the most improved young space modeller in the World, got maximum points..

1 Bartosz BONIECKI POL 134s 140s 174s = 448s

2 Antonio MAZZARACCIO ITA 128s 133s 180s = 441s

3 Maciej CZAJKA POL 121s 113s 180s = 414s

S8E-RC Rocket Glider World Cup The Swiss were very well represented; Turi Hunziker, Danni Studiger & Hans Stoll, but the young Slovenian, Ivan Turk - following up his progress of 1999 - looked capable of upsetting the apple cart. Oberkulm’s capricious air - and probably winter rustiness - accounted for only two full-house maximum scores, leaving a Turk : Stoll duel in the fly off. The pair of gliders appeared to dog-fight aggressively riding out low level lift, young Ivan hanging in longer. The results array so..

1 Ivan TURK SLO 360+360+360+1633s

2 Hans STOLL SUI 360+360+360+1569s

3 Danni STUDIGER SUI 360+302+283

S4B-Boost Glider A fairly small field contested this one - interestingly with no Swiss ! Mazzaracchio, Ivan Turk & Bogataj Klemen (SLO) looked strong - Lo Azzurro with a modern fold-up design, the other two with "old fashioned" rigids - looked the form horses and all using Delta power. The event featured two rounds on Saturday with final flights on Sunday morning - facilitating overnight repairs for a couple of the medallists.. The flying was a mixture of brilliance and lack-lustre, with your scribe just missing out in 4th. The podium so..

1 Bogotaj KLEMEN SLO 370s

2 Antonio MAZZARACCHIO ITA 332s

3 Ivan TURK SLO 328s

S8E/P Rocket Glider Spot Landing A similar field to the World Cup event contested this one - the objectives differing in that points awarded for proximity to the target are added to the duration score. Flat calm conditions implied precision in the landings, as well as high duration scores. Top Swiss, Hans Stoll leapfrogged Slovenia’s Ivan Turk for the gold, with Danni Studigier consistent in third..

1 Hans STOLL SUI 238s/100+238s/50+248s/100 = 967 pts

2 Ivan TURK SLO 224s/100+240s/100+239s/50 = 953 pts

3 Danni STUDIGER SUI 188s/100+240s/50+240s/100 = 918 pts

S3A Lamprey-Parachute Duration Originally a Swiss class - now internationally contested - the rules defining cardboard construction, generous dimensions and "customer" 18mm hobby shop propellants of only 2.5Ns - Estes’ A8-3 motor being the most popular. The very low performance of the models - 50m represents a good boost and a 750mm parachute diameter limit - implies a wide range of fairly low scores. And normally throwing up a surprise winner - the Millennium champion being local favourite Hans-Ulrich Graber, catching a big thermal in round three to oust Loggi..

1 Hans-Ulrich GRABER SUI 251s

2 Stuart LODGE GBR 157s

3 Ernst MEYER GER 125s

Egg Loft Duration Antonio Mazzaracchio just might be the best Egg Loft flyer in the World, dominating Oberkulm Startplatz since 1993 : Shame that so few international ‘Lofter events are flown. With the demise of the Slovakian ZVS Dubnica C8-4 motor, most fliers employ the Estes C6-3 - reliable but unspectacular. But the nature of Egg Lofting always implies spectacle; it is technically difficult consistently to loft a heavy, fragile payload in a nose-heavy rocket and recovering under a metre-plus diameter duration parachute : Soufflés a common (and often just..) dessert... 100s represents a good dead-air time. Last year’s winner Stefan Stoeckli (SUI), Franzi Stoll-Lozza (SUI) and Stuart Lodge - despite an expensive parachute malfunction in round 3 - flew a consistent series. But a 20 minute thermal-assisted miracle flight by Il re Leone ended it as a contest..

1 Antonio MAZZARACCHIO ITA 1346s

2 Franzi STOLL-LOZZA SUI 208s

3 Stefan STOECKLI SUI 204s

Home Run.. A Swiss RAK Cup is the one that ends too soon...especially with the weather so good this year. In addition to the contests - FAI & non-FAI - an extensive Show Programme is written into the script, this year featuring a display of High Power Rocketry (HPR) by Juerg Thuering and his ARGOS members. Indeed, competitors are encouraged to entertain the crowd that gathers on Sunday, alternating their boosts with a display of radio controlled model aircraft by Modellfluggruppe Kulm. HPR is proving popular with the Swiss just now - big, noisy & real spectacle - model rocketry/space modelling certainly seems to be a growth area in the European aeromodelling spectrum.

Riding the rails meant catching the 08:20 off Basel, reaching Paris Est at 13:13 - a cool Kronenbourg 1664 preceded the 15:19 Eurostar to London Waterloo before the "ascent of St Pancras" - a defunct escalator and the near-vertical steps to the Midland Mainline station, almost proving too much for Ibid with with the model box in tow ! But once back home, the bacon butty at 20:30 was worth the struggle...

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