The Swedish indoor championships 1997
Introduction
The 1997 Swedish indoor championships took place in Malmö, and was
arranged by Limhamns model flying club. The hall has a ceiling of 18 meters,
but the last meter is occupied by model catching lighting armatures. Thanks
to a skylift provided, the models could however be retrieved (with some
difficulties). As Malmö is situated in the southernmost of Sweden it
is a long way to travel for many fliers, and the number of participants
were a bit lower than would have been the case if the competition had been
held nearer Stockholm. Not much lower though, the interest in indoor flight
is groving in Skåne (the southernmost province of Sweden). The only
competitors from outside of
Skåne were Stockholmers Sven Pontan and Jonas
Romblad.
Finally, the organiser wishes to thank "Firma Kluringen" and "Model-Craft",
whose sponsoring helped making this competition possible.
F4F Peanut
As usual with the new F4F rules there was a tie for the first place, and a
fly-off between Pontan's Contester and Comet's Lacey. The fly-offs are
judged according to realism in flight, and Pontan emerged the winner.
There
was also a tie for third place, which had to be settled in the same manner.
Pontan's winning peanut Tefft Contestor. It started out as an extremely
lightweight plane (4.5 grams), covered in coloured transparent plastic film.
Since then, it has been much repaired and recovered with
more realistic tissue paper. Weight is now 9 grams. It makes nice landings
on the tricycle gear, this was a deciding factor in the flyoff.
| No. |
Competitor |
Club |
Plane |
Time of 2 best flights (s) |
Flight placing |
Scale points |
Scale placing |
Total placing |
| 1 |
Sven Pontan |
Haninge |
Tefft Contetster |
157 |
1 |
49.5 |
3 |
4 |
| 2 |
Peter Comet |
Vingarna |
Lacey M10 |
129 |
3 |
68.5 |
1 |
4 |
| 3 |
Daniel Ohlsson |
Skanör-Falsterbo |
Lacey M10 |
133 |
2 |
31.5 |
5 |
7 |
| 4 |
Anders Sellman |
Vingarna |
Farman F450 |
64 |
5 |
67.5 |
2 |
7 |
| 5 |
Ingvar Persson |
AKM |
Old Ironsides |
125 |
4 |
41.0 |
4 |
8 |
| 6 |
Marti Bogdanoff |
Limhamn |
Ryan M-1 |
34 |
6 |
20.5 |
6 |
12 |
F1D
Sven Pontan , using a variable pitch propeller, won. The silver medalist
Comet flew his unbraced Hunt-style model, while bronze medalist Romblad
flew an F1L/EZB.
| No. |
Competitor |
Club |
2 best flights (m:s) |
Time of 2 best flights(m:s) |
| 1 |
Sven Pontan |
Haninge |
14:39 |
14:39 |
29:18 |
| 1 |
Peter Comet |
Vingarna |
12:21 |
13:47 |
26:08 |
| 3 |
Jonas Romblad |
Haninge |
11:26 |
10:37 |
22:03 |
F1L
Romblad won, but Bengt Stibner also showed good performance
and was not far behind.
| No. |
Competitor |
Club |
2 best flights (m:s) |
Time of 2 best flights(m:s) |
| 1 |
Jonas Romblad |
Haninge |
9:26 |
9:32 |
18:58 |
| 2 |
Bengt Stibner |
Malmö RFS |
8:52 |
8:25 |
17:17 |
| 3 |
Marti Bogdanoff |
Limhamn |
3:09 |
3:03 |
6:12 |
50-öres
This is a Swedish equivalent to the continental F1D-beginner class. It has
not been very well supported in the past, but this time there was a marked
increase in the number of competitors. Jonas Romblad got yet another
victory with his super model, which has won every competition entered.
It has a very large chord to take full advantage of the rules,
the covering on the underside of the wing, and circular wing tip end plates.
Romblads winning model in flight. Note how the end plate covering bows inward
above the wing, and outward below.
Owe Carlsson with his 50-öring. This class (roughly equivalent to
F1D-beginner) was together with Nocal the most popular one.
| No. |
Competitor |
Club |
2 best flights (m:s) |
Time of 2 best flights(m:s) |
| 1 |
Jonas Romblad |
Haninge |
10:08 |
10:33 |
20:41 |
| 2 |
Sven Pontan |
Haninge |
9:24 |
9:49 |
19:13 |
| 3 |
Anders Sellman |
Vingarna |
8:16 |
8:22 |
16:38 |
| 4 |
Bengt Stibner |
Malmö |
7:39 |
7:33 |
15:12 |
| 5 |
Owe Carlson |
Acroflyers |
6:37 |
7:10 |
13.47 |
| 6 |
Peter Comet |
Vingarna |
5:36 |
8:03 |
13:39 |
| 7 |
Kalle Westerblad |
Limhamn |
6:02 |
5:54 |
11:56 |
| 8 |
Daniel Ohlsson |
Skanör-Falsterbo |
5:20 |
5:40 |
11:00 |
| 9 |
Anders Håkansson |
AKM |
5:16 |
5:25 |
10:41 |
NoCal
Usually there is a 6.3 gram minimum weight in Swedish Nocal contests, but
that rule was not applied this time (there is still no official set of
Nocal rules).
As a result, Peter Comets extremely lightweight Waterman Racer
(approx. 3 grams) won by a very large margin.
| No. |
Competitor |
Club |
Time of 2 best flights (s) |
| 1 |
Peter Comet |
Vingarna |
424 |
| 2 |
Sven Pontan |
Haninge |
266 |
| 3 |
Kalle Westerblad |
Limhamn |
232 |
| 4 |
Daniel Ohlsson |
Skanör-Falsterbo |
211 |
| 5 |
Jonas Romblad |
Haninge |
179 |
| 6 |
Anders Håkansson |
AKM | 169 |
| 7 |
Ingvar Persson |
AKM |
133 |
8 |
Owe Carlsson |
Acroflyers |
116 |
| 9 |
Anders Sellman |
Vingarna |
75 |
The photos were provided by Sven Pontan.
