The Swedish Indoor Championships 2005
The 2005 Swedish Indoor championships took place in September, in the "Sätrahallen" in Stockholm. It is a very good hall for indoor flying,
with a nice, clean ceiling of about 15 meters.
F1D
F1D was won by Jonas Romblad, who is in a class of his own. Second and third place by Pontan and F1D-newcomer Hans Karlsson respectively.
| Placing | Competitor | 2 best flights (sec) | Sum of 2 best flights (sec) |
| 1 | Jonas Romblad | 1476 | 1623 | 3099 |
| 2 | Sven Pontan | 1288 | 1334 | 2622 |
| 3 | Hans Karlsson | 808 | 947 | 1755 |
F1L
F1L had David and myself fighting for first place. The outcome was not decided
until the final flight, when my model was caught by a pendant loudspeaker, leaving David with a
higher total score. It was nice to see a few newcomers in this class, which has become the most
popular of the indoor classes.
Andreaīs F1L in flight
| Placing | Competitor | 2 best flights (sec) | Sum of 2 best flights (sec) |
| 1 | David Holmström | 758 | 763 | 1521 |
| 2 | Andrea Hartstein | 658 | 842 | 1500 |
| 3 | Kalle Westerblad | 664 | 701 | 1365 |
| 4 | Lasse Britts | 646 | 633 | 1279 |
| 5 | Mats Licke | 472 | 473 | 945 |
| 6 | Magnus Candell | 438 | 392 | 830 |
| 7 | Lars Eriksson | 266 | 314 | 580 |
F1M
Curt Högberg took first place by quite a large margin.
Hans Karlsson's F1M
| Placing | Competitor | 2 best flights (sec) | Sum of 2 best flights (sec) |
| 1 | Curt Högberg | 590 | 547 | 1137 |
| 2 | Hans Karlsson | 580 | 248 | 828 |
| 3 | Anders Sellman | 361 | 397 | 758 |
| 4 | Bo Torstensson | 378 | 373 | 751 |
Ministick
Won by Scanian Kalle Westerblad, well known for his regular indoor contributions to Modellflygnytt, the
"official" Swedish model flying magazine.
| No. | Competitor | 2 best flights (sec) | Sum of 2 best flights (sec) |
| 1 | Kalle Westerblad | 418 | 446 | 864 |
| 2 | Daniel Olsson | 384 | 377 | 761 |
| 3 | Georg Törnkvist | 346 | 346 | 692 |
| 4 | Lars Eriksson | 225 | - | 225 |
F4F - Peanut
The peanut class had a disappointing entry of only three persons, five models. Lennart Lilienbergs Voisin Canard
fared best in the scale judgement, while my Drzewiecki Canard had the greatest duration, and these models placed
2:nd and 1:st respectively. As Lennart also entered a Bleriot XXV canard, which placed joint third, there was quite
a dominance of the tail-first flyers.
| Placing | Competitor | Plane | 2 best flights (s) | Sum of 2 best flights (s) | Flight rank | Scale points | Scale rank | Total ranking |
| 1 | Andrea Hartstein | Drzewiecki Canard | 76 | 85 | 161 | 1 | 49.0 | 2 | 3 |
| 2 | Lennart Lilienberg | Voisin Hydro-Canard | 24 | 32 | 56 | 5 | 59 | 1 | 6 |
| 3 | Lars Tolkstam | Piper Cub | 72 | 66 | 138 | 2 | 44.5 | 5 | 7 |
| (3) | Lennart Lilienberg | Bleriot XXV | 50 | 58 | 108 | 3 | 45.5 | 4 | 7 |
| (3) | Andrea Hartstein | Handley-Page Sayers | 44 | 44 | 88 | 4 | 48.5 | 3 | 7 |
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Andreaīs Drzewiecki Canard.
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Lars Tolkstamīs Piper Cub, built from the Peck-Polymer kit
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Pistachio
For the first time, the pistachio class was included in the Swedish championships this year.
There were not many entries, just three, plus Tolkstams Udet Flamingo which had not been
finished in time.
I entered my old ANT-2, a Soviet passanger aircraft from the early twenties.
I have never been able to trim this model properly, and it was thus no surprise when it utterly
failed to perform. Anders had better luck with his new Dornier Falke (from a Dave Linstrum plan I believe).
After changing to a larger propeller it flew for 60 seconds, the best flight of the day. But the winner was
Lennart Lilienberg with his Voisin Canard, which had better scale points and flew for almost as long.
| Placing | Competitor | Plane | 2 best flights (s) | Sum of 2 best flights (s) | Flight rank | Scale points | Scale rank | Total ranking |
| 1 | Lennart Lilienbeg | Voisin Hydro-Canard | 52 | 49 | 101 | 2 | 28.0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | Anders Sellman | Dornier Falke | 58 | 60 | 118 | 1 | 17.0 | 3 | 4 |
| 3 | Andrea Hartstein | Tupolev ANT-2 | 9 | 9 | 18 | 3 | 23.0 | 2 | 5 |
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Anders Dornier Falke, a good flyer.
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| Andreaīs Tupolev ANT-2, not a good flyer. |
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Lennarts Voisin canard won the class
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And Lars Tolkstamīs Udet Flamingo was not finished in time
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Combined F4D-F4E
Due to the small number of entries, the F4D (rubber powred) and F4E (CO2/electric-powered) classes were merged into
a combined class. Anders Sellman had a new model, a rubber powered Lacey built from the Ron Williams plan in Building and
flying indoor model aircraft. Even though it was low on scale points, its flights were very realistic, and won
the competition. Lennart Lilienberg had entered his old WACO peanut, which placed second, and Georg's CO2-powered
Demoiselle unfortunately failed to register a qualifying fligth, and placed last. Outside of competition it then made a perfect flight...
| Place | Competitor | Model | Flight points | Scale points | Total points |
| 1 | Anders Sellman | Lacey M-10 | 543 | 522 | 1065 |
| 2 | Lennart Lilienberg | WACO SRE | 400 | 541 | 941 |
| 3 | Georg Törnkvist | Santos-Dumont Demoiselle | 0 | 568 | 568 |
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Georg Törnkvists Santos-Dumont Demoiselle.
Read more about it in the photo gallery
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Anders Sellmans Lacey M10
Read more about it in the photo gallery
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Nocal
The Nocal class had quite a good turnout of entries. Birgit Törnkvist won (as usual) with her
Wittman Racer, which flies for over three minutes.
| Place | Competitor | Model | Single best flight (s) |
| 1 | Birgit Törnkvist | Wittman Racer | 203 |
| 2 | Lars Tolkstam | Heinkel He 112 | 167 |
| 3 | Anders Sjöberg | Bumble Bee | 154 |
| 4 | Andrea Hartstein | Bristol Scout | 102 |
| 5 | Daniel Ohlsson | Caudron racer | 78 |
