Hi Laurent

Thanks, corrected it in the 3 lists (Radical-1 Shooter +1 and looking good for the Freestylers ).

Reto

Wow, there were three 13.xs speed runs at the Eurotour in Lünen.

List updated.

Shooter passed now Radical (#of sub 14s runs) and Hurricane V and Tool2010 made it into the list

Reto

Craig Goodrum did 13.25 the past weekend at the SA Nats with his Ceres!
Michelle did an un-official 13.66!

Cheers
Gert

Super cool Gert!

Congrats to Craig and Michelle!

I added Craig, I assume Michelle's run was in practice.

Can you indicate the flying field?

Rudolf Schaub (Team member 1999) always tells me how crazy the lift in South Africa is!

Reto

Reto
It was at the BERG club at Krugersdorp, North of Johannesburg.
Cheers
Gert

Reto,

Some earlier WC best speeds for you. They were picked off un-sorted lists from a mixture of official results and daily news bulletins, so if I missed a faster time, apologies in advance.

1995 14.83 Denis Duchesne <Ellipse ( 1 or 2 ? )> Romania
1993 15.62 Nic Wright <Electra EV-1> Israel
1991 16.3 Joakim Stahl <?> Holland
1989 17.5 Rienhard Liese <Epsilon> France

It would be interesting to know the best times from even earlier WC's ?? The 'old' winch rules applied up to and including 1987.

Cheers,

Nic

Wow.. off-topic, but.... Nic, you were partly responsible for getting me hooked on r/c soaring after seeing a fantastic talk and demo you gave at the Trent Club in Nottingham about 20 years ago (I was only in my mid-teens at the time).

Great to see you on RCGroups!

Retro,

Keeping the UK theme...

2002 14.90 Steve Haley - Estrella - UK
2004 14.12 Steve Haley - Estrella - UK
2008 13.86 Steve Haley - Radical - UK record

Steve

Nic, same for me too, watched a demo at Leek and you got me hooked, Im sure Ian Webb and Ivan Bradbury would like me to extend a hello to you, again sorry for being of topic,

Scott Ravenscroft

Hi Nic
Great to have you on rcgroups and thanks for the information!
My older flying buddies keep telling me about your excellent flying skills.

I would be pleased to learn more about your Electra.
If you have information about Electra and F3B in the 80ies-90ies, please add some here:
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1315244

@Steve: will add the 2008 flight (where was it flown?). I wanted to make the cut at 14s speed run (as there are so many 14.xx runs nowadays). The list would grow out of bounds. But I make an exception for historic flights (pre 2000).

Reto

Originally Posted by nic wright

Reto,

1993 15.62 Nic Wright <Electra EV-1> Israel

This is a 'blast from the past' but I was one of the people who got to witness your 15.62 run at the WC in Isreal and what I remember (and that got people talking) was the way you flew your final A-B leg about one meter off the ground (below the wind and haulin' a$$) and then popped up for an F3F style turn bouncing off the headwind at B to again get right on the deck for a fast finish. Everybody's face looked like Awesome!

Although, I think I was more impressed with the inverted/outside speed run on one of the practice days -- not so much to the delight of your TM at the time (Stu Blanchard) as I recall.

Great to see you and Steve on RC Groups, Nic!

Steve

Originally Posted by stevecondon

This is a 'blast from the past' but I was one of the people who got to witness your 15.62 run at the WC in Isreal and what I remember (and that got people talking) was the way you flew your final A-B leg about one meter off the ground (below the wind and haulin' a$$) and then popped up for an F3F style turn bouncing off the headwind at B to again get right on the deck for a fast finish.

http://www.youtube.com/v/Cgj2FO-5BGc?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB

Steve, The quality isn't great but it was 17 years ago ( what a good memory you have ! ). Chatter, blasphemy and expletives are courtesy of Steve Macken. Nice to hear from you and thanks for the kind comments, Nic

Wowww

Didn't know they had video back then! :0).

Check you private emails on rc groups

kindest regards

Mike challinor

Hello Nic

This is really a great video document of a great speed run. Thank you so much for sharing!

Best regards,
Reto

Nic,

Nice one, I was there to see it...was 14 at the time, it really left an impression.

Roy