The Swedish indoor championships 2006
The 2006 Swedish indoor champs took place in Sätrahallen, Stockholm. This hall has a ceiling of about 15 meters,
and its non-model-catching wooden rafters make it a pleasant hall to fly in. As the event collided with the oldtimer
championships, it was decided to postpone the scale classes, because many of the scale fliers fly oldtimers as well.
For us that fly both scale and duration, this made the competition much less stressed than usual.
In F1D, Jonas Romblad made two incredible flights, the best of which was 30:22 (probably the longest
flight ever recorded in Sweden), and won the competition by a handsome margin. Pontan and Finnish guest Leif Englund
took 2:nd and 3:d respectively, while David Holmström made a token flight with an F1L to make it
an official championship (there must be at least three Swedish competitors in a class for it to be an official
Swedish championship class).
The most popular class today is F1L. In spite of the Scanian fliers being absent, there were eight competitors,
and among them two juniors. The competition was close, with many fliers making flights in excess
of 10 minutes, something that was quite rare just a couple of years ago. David Holmström consistently flew a bit better than
the others and won, with Lasse and Andrea in 2:nd and 3:d place.
F1M had four entries, though as two of them were from Finland, the class did not count as an official Swedish championship.
The Finns flew longer than the Swedes, Tapio Linkosalo taking first with several good flights over 12 minutes.
Ministick and Nocal had only 3 entries each. In ministick, Tomas Leijon won after several hair rising, rafter banging flights of +7 min.
Tomas also took the frst place in Nocal, in close competition with Lilienberg's new P39. Tomas actually entered two almost identical
Heinkel 178 models, one coming first, the other last!
Some photos
Pontan pondering his F1D during a trimming flight
Göran Hedlund's F1L in flight
Hartstein's F1L in flight. Note the quite flexible flying surfaces, and some ad hoc bracing struts
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Andrea preparing her Bristol Scout Nocal. In the background Göran with an F1L.
Photo by David Holmström |
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| And here is the Bristol Nocal in the air. |
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One of Tomas Leijon's Heinkel 178 nocals after a hangup in the rafters. During the hangup, the propeller
continued to rotate, which caused all the cobwebs and dust to become intwined in the rubber. And there
must have been a plentiful supply of those articles...
Johan brought two almost finished Riesler Nocals, but time ran out
before he could make an official flight
Results
F1D
| Place | Competitor | 2 best flights (sec) | Sum of 2 best flights (sec) |
| 1 | Jonas Romblad | 1722 | 1822 | 3544 |
| 2 | Sven Pontan | 1245 | 1092 | 2337 |
| 3 | Leif Englund - Finland | 1017 | 1081 | 2098 |
| 4 | David Holmström | 379 | - | 379 |
F1L (J) denotes junior
| Place | Competitor | 2 best flights (sec) | Sum of 2 best flights (sec) |
| 1 | David Holmström | 690 | 799 | 1489 |
| 2 | Lasse Britts | 650 | 628 | 1278 |
| 3 | Andrea Hartstein | 619 | 642 | 1261 |
| 4 | Göran Hedlund | 592 | 619 | 1211 |
| 5 | Ludwig Hedlund (J) | 524 | 634 | 1158 |
| 6 | Magnus Candell | 545 | 609 | 1154 |
| 7 | Mats Licke | 523 | 537 | 1060 |
| 8 | Ted Candell (J) | 239 | 383 | 622 |
F1M
| Place | Competitor | 2 best flights (sec) | Sum of 2 best flights (sec) |
| 1 | Tapio Linkosalo - Finland | 739 | 729 | 1468 |
| 2 | Leif Englund - Finland | 621 | 559 | 1180 |
| 3 | Kurt Högberg | 443 | 415 | 858 |
| 4 | Tomas Leijon | 231 | - | 231 |
Ministick
| Place | Competitor | 2 best flights (sec) | Sum of 2 best flights (sec) |
| 1 | Tomas Leijon | 450 | 445 | 895 |
| 2 | Göran Hedlund | 321 | 324 | 645 |
| 3 | Andrea Hartstein | 208 | 180 | 388 |
NoCal
| Place | Competitor | Plane | Time of single best flight (m:s) |
| 1 | Tomas Leijon | Heinkel 178 | 2:19 |
| 2 | Lennart Lilienberg | Bell P39 Aircobra | 2:11 |
| 3 | Andrea Hartstein | Bristol Scout | 1:50 |
| 4 | Tomas Leijon | Heinkel 178/2 | 1:23 |
