France National Championship was held in Rouille France from 26th/Aug to 29th/Aug.
This information was given by Remi Romagnan.

This event is F3C/F3N since two years now and it's the biggest competition in the country.
With 44 participants, 20 in F3N and 22 in F3C. The fight was tight in all categories. 

In F3C international series, Arnaud Poyet won for the second time with 4 wonderfull
flights just in front of Laurent Lombard and Pascal Brianchon.

In F3C national series, the young Benjamin Jumel won easily with 2 rounds at 1000 on 3,
followed by 14 years old Pierre Gutierrez and Remi Romagnan(SYE12, 12x radio, Ak MOD 720mm blades, Thunder Power 5500 20C bat,Pyro 700 engine,CC80 HV ICE)

F3C International podium
 

Oliver Delbouys and Remi Romagnan with Arnaud Poyet(center)
  

with Sylphide E12
 

Thank you

The annual BMFA National Championships was held last weekend over a national holiday weekend. Here is a report from Steve(Team JR) .

All RC & control line disciplines are flown on an operational RAF airfield which we take over for 4 days!

F3C, Sports F3C, Scale and F3N were the helicopter disciplines flown.

The weather was not too good (normal for the UK!) with winds approaching 12m/s for
most of the weekend which at times were blowing in our faces.

F3C results:

1st Steve Roberts Team JR, Sylphide 90 E, JR radio.
2nd Mark Christy, Next D Rave 90, Futaba
3rd Dave Fisher, Avro, JR 11x

This contest also made up the 2nd leg to our team selection trials for the 2011 World Championships in Italy.

The team that will be going is Steve Roberts, Mark Christy & Dave Fisher with
Roger Mayo (team JR) as the reserve pilot.

Thank you Steve and congratulations!
We are very happy for you.

Free style Japan GP was held under new FAI  F3N rule at Ojima RC sky port, Gunma prefecture on August 28th and 29th. It's very very hot day! 
Even in this very hot weather,there were more visitors than last year!

From Team JR, Mr. Kuwahara got the second and Mr. Iwasa  got the third place. 
 

 Congratulations!!

German Championship F3C 2010 was held last weekend.
Great news is that  Uwe Kiesewetter a Team JR pilot won the last round with the max
score of 6000!!
And of course he became the champion of  year 2010.

Here is a report from Andy Kessler.

I was to the final round of the German F3C Championships last weekend.
The weather was very nice on Saturday. Sunday was rainy like Friday again.
The local club made a great event!

F3C
1. Uwe Kiesewetter Sylphide E12 /11X ZERO / K&S PT96440 TYPE 3 Thunder Power
2. Stephan Wachsmuthn Thunder Power
3. Dominik Haegele
4. Rene Petersen Sylphide E12

8. Christian Ellermann Sylphide 90
10. Jörg Tute Sylphide E12

As guests for teh last round:
Andy Gasser SUI Sylphide E12 Thunder Power
Andy Kessler SUI Sylphide E12 / PCM12X / K&S PT96440 TYPE 3 Thunder Power

Sport F3C

4. Jürgen Slomma Sylphide E12
5. Claus Schroeder Sylphide EP

Here are the pictures. Take a look!

       
 
Andy san, Thank you for your report and great photos. 

Here is the final result.

1. Curtis Youngblood
2. Nicholas Maxwell
3. Shinya Kunii (JR)
4. Wayne Mann

Based on this result, Curtin, Nicholas and Wayne has been chosen as members of American
for the F3C world championship in year 2011.

IRCHA has slready started from today.
It's crowded more than last year!

Report by Shinya Kunii

Here is a report from Kunii from JR.

Preliminary round 4 --- canceled due to the rain and a thunder  

Result of Final round 1
1. Curtis Youngblood
2. Nicholas Maxwell
3. Shinya Kunii
4. Dwight Shilling

Final round 2 has already finished but summary math hasn't come out yet,
but most likely  Curtis will be the 1st. Nicholas or Dwight will be 2nd?
Dwight and Wayne Mann are better than I expected.
about me... tail didn't get steady when I did "Pull-Back".
Well,I just have to try my best for last rouund tomorrow.

Attached photo is Ito-kun doing "calibration flight".

Thank you
Shinya Kunii
 

This time, from JR, we have Shinya Kunii and Mooney Takamura(overseas sales person) there.
And Hiroki Ito(Team JR) a world champion is with them as Kunii's helper!
With this great combination, we are excited to see how far Kunii can go.

Here are the detail of helicopter mechanism.

Helicopter 1: Sylphide E12 with New Super Gracy
Helicopter 2 : Sylphide E12 with FRP half body (for AS90)
Transmitter : DSX12/RD931
Swash servo : DS8305
Gyro : G7000T + MP80G
Regulator : REG-015

Rotor head : ASG rotor head90
Main rotor : Funky720mm（K&S）
Tail rotor : carbon 105mm（JR)
Fｌybar Paddle : Funtech FAI
Flybar : 480mm
RX battery : Thunder Power 1800/1350mAh for receiver

Motor : K&S Kv560
amp : Spin125
Battery : Thunder Power 6 cell 5000mAh
Gear ratio : 12 : 1

Kunii san, Go for it !! 

US NATS 2010 is being held at Muncie IN in USA.

Here is the result of -,
Preliminary 2nd round.
1. Curtis Youngblood
2. Nicholas Maxwell
3.Shinya Kunii
4.Wayne Mann

Preliminary 3rd round.
1. Curtis Youngblood
2. Shinya Kunii
3.Nicholas Maxwell
4.Wayne Mann

Attached Photo is a current interim rankings.

  

Tomorrow,  there will be Preliminary round 4 in the morning and final first round
will start  in the afternoon.
The day after tomorrow is the final round 2 and 3.

Curtis has been great and Nicholas is also good.especially his hovering manoeuvers
is great.

F pattern in the final will decide everything!

Report by Kunii from JR

Take a look at our photo gaｌlery on F3C European Championship ！

Click here!

Thank you

Another hot day, light wind.

Ennio Graber  has already got the title but who will be stand on the rest of podium will be
decided depend on this round. Also team ranking will be decided.

From the first group,there are 2 pilots from team Italy.
Same as usual, they performed stably and dynamically.
Fabio Livi 215.5 points
Stefano Lucchi 210.5 points

Next group, Ari Holmstrom who is currently at the 2nd place.
He performed stably at this round too but the score couldn't get that high. 
Ari Holmstrom 202.5 points

Here is Uwe Kiesewetter ,currently  at  the 4th place and  Bernhard Egger  3rd place.
They are both possible to stand on the podium.
Firstly  Uwe Kiesewetter . Performed very carefull hovering manoeuvres.
He received applause from the crowd during his performance, "loop and roll" .
But unfortunately  next manoeuvre "flip with harf roll" didn't go well and this led his score
hold down.
Uwe Kiesewetter 207.5 points

Nextly  Bernhard Egger . According to him,compare to engine helicopter, it is difficult to
get used to with because feeling of  hovering is different. But as far as looking at his
performance,he never look like he is having any difficulity but he is handling very well.
Though expected a high score,coldn't reach to Fabio Livi .
Bernhard Egger 214.5 points

Depending on  Ennio Graber 's  score in the last group,the ranking of top pilots will be
changed.
Winning flight has started. Looking at his flight, he performed very stable than ever.
Flip rate was incredible and autorotation is successed. everyone expected a high score.
In the end,he earned the highest score at this competition.
Ennio Graber 235.5 points

This has decided the final rankings.(official site ->Results）

[Individual match]

1 Ennio Graber /Switzerland
2 Ari Holmstrom /Finland
3 Bernhard Egger /Austria
4 Uwe Kiesewetter /Germany
5 Fabio Livi /Italy
6 Stefano Lucchi /Italy
 

 [Team mutch]

1  Italy
2  Austria
3  Switzerland

 



*This time, counting way has been changed from not  decided by elimination round
but total ranking of each pilots including final round will decide the team rankings.

Judges,players and everyone involved this competition,thank you very much.

From Team JR,there are 5 pilots out of  6 are the finalist(everyone used electric helis)
knowledge about electric helicopters are ahead in Europe.
Motors,amp,battery charger etc.(there were many HONDA made for generator)

We JR have been very lucky to have pilots who have a great know-how here in
Europe and so E12 which will be released in the near future have got many of
their opinion.
We continue exchanging information with them and keep producing better products,
products to win the competitions.

We appreciate very much for all of your support for JR.

 Report by S.Kunii