Perkins is three time World Champ. BTW...His Icon died before the contest. I
understand it blew up. This is not a design flaw but a
possible mistake in the layup. This is understandable given the fact that Perkins'
Icon was made on short notice.
Rick Eckel wrote:
> I read those comments too. It occurred to me that many mind games are
> probably played at these contests. Wouldn't hurt to plant some seeds of
> doubt in the mind of a two time (or is that three? I'm having a 404
> moment.) world champ. :-)
>
> Rick
>
> At 06:47 AM 8/21/01 -0400, Marc Gellart wrote:
> >It is kind of interesting that one of the sites, not the official one I
> >think, was really kind of slamming the Icons as not stiff enough and if only
> >Daryl and Joe would fly real F3B ships from Europe they might have a chance.
> >I hope the term "bring it on" will be appropriate at the end of this.
> >
> >Marc
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: D'Anne Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 10:30 PM
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Cc: Marc Gellart; Soaring List
> >Subject: Re: [RCSE] F3B Site ?'s
> >
> >
> >Marc,
> >
> >The T-tail is definitely not Gavin's. I presume it to be one of the two
> >planes
> >that Daryl Perkins was to pick up over there (possibly a Warp?). Gavin is
> >flying his Y2K v-tail's in the WCs. (He has many backups 8-).
> >
> >I saw a number of photo's of Joe's Icon on the French internet site - but I
> >can't read french! I'll ask some of my friends at work to translate for me.
> >Obviously it has stirred up some interest with them.
> >
> >D'Anne Thompson
> >
> >
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > Marc Gellart wrote:
> > > >
> > > > There have been two websites shown for the F3B results and to say the
> >least
> > > > they do not look to jive at all, which one is up to standards?
> > >
> > > You should start with
> > > http://www.minfo.cz/f3b2001/
> > >
> > > which is the official site. Use the Diary link to see what is going
> > > on. Today's diary has a photo of Daryl being interviewed and Gavin
> > > Botha holding this retro T-tail model. It looks like the americans have
> > > totally insulted the European style of models by showing up with a
> > > T-tail model and an Amoeba cross-tail model.
> > >
> > > The results for the day appear to show a complete Duration task and a
> > > partially complete Distance task based on the number of zero scores in
> > > Distance.
> > >
> > > Don't look at the last three links for the FAI Open International
> > > competition, Prix Chrudim. That was the Eurotour contest that was held
> > > just before the WC.
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