2003-2004
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Pattern contest in Sacarmento 8/16/03 |
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Pattern contest in Sacarmento (L-R) Bill Sneed, Don Atwood, and Rich Mendonsa. 8/16/03 |
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Rich Mendonsa (L), Don Atwood (R) and Don's Gile-202. SAM 8/16/03 |
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Don Atwood's Gile-202 is about to land. SAM 8/16/03 |
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Adrin Wong's Angel's Shadow is going to take off. SAM 8/16/03 |
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Jon Carter's Angel's Shadow. SAM 8/16/03 |
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Pattern contest in Hollister 9/06/03 |
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Pattern contest in Hollister 9/06/03 |
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Jon Carter's OS-140 powered Angel's Shadow is taking off. Hollister, CA. 9/07/03 |
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The last pix of Dick Belden's Summit. The plane crashed two minutes later. Hollister, CA 9/07/03 |
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Prophecy, Giles-202, and Sequel Napa pattern contest, 10/04/03 |
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Don McCollough (L) and Dick Beldon (R) fire up Don's Webra 1.45 powered Hurricane Napa pattern contest, 10/04/03 |
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Dick Beldon's new bird, a Super Tiger 3500 powered "clip-wing" Typhoon 2+2. The wing is shorten by ~3" on each panel. Napa pattern contest, 10/04/03 |
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Bob Whitacre's Piedmont Model Temptation, powered by an OS-140. Napa pattern contest. 10/04/03 |
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On my vacation back to Taiwan, I hosted a F3A Spring Contest in Kaoshiung, Taiwan. (4/25/04) |
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I gave a judge seminar in Taiwan. (4/24/04, photo courtesy to Chan) |
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Not many pattern flyers in Taiwan, but some of them are very talent! (4/25/04) |
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Only 13 pilots in this one-day event, I showed them how to run a pattern contest efficiently. (4/25/04) |
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This is Wolfgang Matt's original patternship Larimar. (4/25/04) |
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Another view of the Larimar. (4/25/04) |
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This is another world famous patternship Alliance. (4/25/04) |
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Team Kaoshiung and me. (4/24/04, photo courtesy to Chan) |
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Flyer Lin and me, with his Oaxi's Diesel F3A ARF from China. (4/24/04, photo courtesy to Chan) More pix about this event can be found in Chan's web site. |
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The electric-powered pattern airplane finally come true! This is Tony Frackowiak's Hacker C50-14XL powered Partner, Tony won the Master class. (Hollister, 5/15/04) |
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Hacker C50-14XL motor with APC 22x12 prop. |
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Battery packs are Thunder Power Li-Po, 10S3P, 6000mAh. |
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Partner landing. |
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Other electric airplanes in Sportsman and Intermediate Classes (Hollister, 5/16/04) |
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Tony Frackowiak ready for another winning flight while Jerry Budd holds airplane for him. Tony won F3A class in Fresno pattern contest. (5/30/04) |
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After Lisa Bruno and Joan Anastasio, the third lady pattern pilot in west; Terry Himmens won 1st place Sportsman in her first pattern contest. (Fresno, 5/30/04) |
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Hung Kay Li was one of the Hong Kung F3A team in World Cup last year. (Fresno, 5/30/04) |
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Hollister pattern contest. (9/18/04) |
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This ARF is from China, Oxais' "Pinnacle". (9/18/04) |
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Another view of this ARF "Pinnacle". (9/18/04) |
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"Pinnacle" is landing. (9/18/04) |
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Terry Himmens and her Tiger-II. (9/18/04) |
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Craig Blodgett modified his Smaragd into electric powered. (9/18/04) |
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Another view of this electrified Smaragd. (9/18/04) |
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Smaragd taking off. (9/18/04) |
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Kyle Mashima's electrified Zen-III. (9/18/04) |
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Electric Zen-III. (9/18/04) |
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"Pattern at Tomcats" is my first contest as a CD in North California. It's a one-day contest at SCCMAS flying site. Total of 20 pilots were in the contest.(11/06/04) |
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Tony Roberts and his Zen-120 Tony is in Sportsman class. (11/06/04) |
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Father and son team: Dick (left) and Chris Beldon. Dick is in F3A class while Chris is in Sportsman class.(11/06/04) |
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Jon Carter's new ship: a PL Prod, Matt's design "Lazulite". (11/06/04) |
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Bob Obregon and his Angel's Shadow. (11/06/04) |
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The winners of the contest. (11/06/04) |
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