The Swedish indoor championships 2010
The 2010 Swedish indoor champs once again took place in Sätrahallen, Stockholm. With a ceiling of about 15 meters,
and non-model-catching wooden rafters, it is a pleasant hall to fly in. This year, the competition was held over two days instead of the usual
one day, which made for a more relaxed atmosphere with time for trimming and fun-flying. The usual classes were flown, though F1M didn't have enough
entries and was droppped.
In F1D, there was as usual a lack of competitors. To make up the three persons necessary for an official championship class, David
entered with an F1L. But improvement may be in sight. No less than three persons promised to build an F1D for next year!
In F1L, there were more flyers. Mats Licke won with two flight of over 13 minutes, the others were somewhat behind. My own plane got caught in a floodlight lamp on its
very fist flight, and was nearly impossible to see in the blinding light. When we finally got it down (thanks Sven), the wing was quite thoroughly broken.
I thought it had made its final flight, but with some encouragement from others, and a borrowed piece of mylar, I got it in the air again.
In scale, I had repaired my old Drzewiecki peanut. It flew sufficiently well to win the peanut class. Johan Wallin was second
with his nice ASJA Viking.
In pistachio, Tolkstam was yet again victorious with his excellent Udet Flamingo.
He also showed us a peanut he is currently making, a Gerner biplane, which is built to the same high standars as the Udet, and might well
be next years winner.
In nocal finally, Birgit outflew us all with her Wittman racer for the umpteenth time. She says she never needs to retrim it, she just takes it out of its box, winds up the
rubber, and then proceeds to post some winning flights!
Second was Lars with his Messserschmitt 108, while I managed to squeeze a two minute flight out of my Bristol Scout for a third place.
Some photos
Two flyers discussing their F1L's
Sven working behind his F1D model
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Andrea's F1L after retrieval from a hang-up |
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The steering/retrieval pole was not quite long enough, so an extra ladder had to be
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Tolkstam preparing to launch his Messerschmitt nocal |
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| Andrea's old Bristol Scout in the air. |
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The scale judges Sven-Olof and Vailet at work
Johan's immaculate ASJA Viking
A contender for next year? Lars Tolkstam's Gerner peanut shows superb workmanship
Results
F1D
| Place | Competitor | 2 best flights (sec) | Sum of 2 best flights (sec) |
| 1 | Sven Pontan | 1035 | 1117 | 2152 |
| 2 | Hans Karlsson | 850 | 844 | 1694 |
| 3 | David Brohede | 897 | - | 897 |
F1L
| Place | Competitor | 2 best flights (sec) | Sum of 2 best flights (sec) |
| 1 | Mats Licke | 797 | 787 | 1582 |
| 2 | David Brohede | 674 | 778 | 1452 |
| 3 | Georg Törnkvist | 627 | 679 | 1306 |
| 4 | Sven Pontan | 689 | 601 | 1290 |
| 5 | Magnus Candell | 597 | 582 | 1179 |
| 6 | Andrea Hartstein | 569 | 601 | 1170 |
Ministick
| Place | Competitor | 2 best flights (sec) | Sum of 2 best flights (sec) |
| 1 | David Brohede | 348 | 354 | 702 |
| 2 | Georg Törnkvist | 283 | 228 | 511 |
| 3 | Lars Lindén | 230 | 236 | 466 |
A6
| Place | Competitor | 2 best flights (sec) | Sum of 2 best flights (sec) |
| 1 | Mats Licke | 281 | 218 | 499 |
| 2 | Georg Törnkvist | 198 | 243 | 441 |
| 3 | Magnus Candell | 189 | 213 | 402 |
| 4 | Robert Mlakar | 158 | 162 | 320 |
NoCal
| Place | Competitor | Plane | 2 best flights (sec) | Sum of 2 best flights (sec) |
| 1 | Birgit Törnkvist | Wittman Racer | 165 | 175 | 340 |
| 2 | Lars Tolkstam | Bf 108 Taifun | 128 | 140 | 268 |
| 3 | Andrea Hartstein | Bristol Scout | 110 | 120 | 230 |
| 4 | Lars Tolkstam | Heinkel He 112 | 116 | 85 | 201 |
| 5 | Sven Pontan | Piaggio Pegna | 84 | 88 | 172 |
| 6 | Max Wallin | Voisin Tractor | 35 | 37 | 72 |
Peanut
| 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 | 69 | 145 | 1 | 60.0 | 1 | 2 |
| 2 | Johan Wallin | ASJA Viking 1 | 63 | 58 | 121 | 3 | 57.0 | 2 | 5 |
| (3) | Andrea Hartstein | Lacey M10 | 71 | 71 | 142 | 2 | 52.5 | 3 | 5 |
| 3 | Lars Tolkstam | Piper Cub J3 | 53 | 50 | 103 | 5 | 47.5 | 4 | 9 |
| 4 | Henrik Tisell | BA4-B | 59 | 60 | 119 | 4 | 47.0 | 5 | 9 |
| 5 | Lars Lindén | Nesmith Cougar | 39 | 39 | 78 | 6 | 42.0 | 6 | 12 |
| (6) | Lars Lindén | Piper Cub J3 | 34 | 31 | 65 | 7 | 41.0 | 7 | 14 |
| 6 | Sven Pontan | Tefft Contestor | 41 | - | 41 | 8 | 38.0 | 8 | 16 |
Pistachio
| Placing | Competitor | Plane | 2 best flights (s) | Sum of 2 best flights (s) | Flight rank | Scale points | Scale rank | Total ranking |
| 1 | Lars Tolkstam | Udet U-12 | 37 | 52 | 89 | 1 | 34.0 | 1 | 2 |
| 2 | Georg Törnkvist | Wittman VW-racer | 20 | 11 | 31 | 3 | 30.0 | 2 | 5 |
| 3 | Johan Wallin | Jodel D-9 | 13 | 20 | 33 | 2 | 28.0 | 4 | 6 |
| (4) | Georg Törnkvist | BA4-B | 7 | - | 7 | 4 | 29.0 | 3 | 7 |
| 4 | Sven Pontan | Lacey M10 | - | - | 0 | 6 | 20.0 | 5 | 11 |
| 5 | Andrea Hartstein | ANT-2 | 3 | - | 3 | 5 | 10.0 | 6 | 11 |
