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We had early start today and it was long day. We had all 3 round flights, award ceremony, and banquet in all in one day.
Weather was near perfect condition in the morning. Beautiful sky, and little to no wind. When Curtis, Itou and Scott went up and they flew very well. By mid morning, wind start blow exactly weather forecasters were expecting. Dobashi was up right before Wayne and he had hard time on hovering. Wind was keep blowing when Wayne flew. He handled wind very well, but score was 440.5.
Round 1 score:
Round 2 started as scheduled. Flight order was Stefano Lucci up first. Wayne 4th, Sensui 9th, Curtis 11th,Itou 12th, and Scott Gray 15th. It was windy whole round. So the conditions were pretty equal to pretty much to everybody. Wind direction was 10 O’clock to 12 O’clock and make aerobatics and auto rotations very difficult.
Spectators clapped hands when a pilot did really nice maneuver. We heard a lot of clapping from those top pilots.
Round 2 score:
Round 3 started after lunch break. Judges were fed and happy. Wind was a little calmer, but still blowing and gusty sometimes. Hashimoto was up first. Sensui was up 4th, Curtis 6th, Itou 7th, Scott 10th, and Dobashi, Wayne 13th & 14th.
Wind was calming down finally on this round. Curtis had really nice hovering and text book aerobatics and won this round. All flight completed at 16:30. Not bad time with 45 flights and lunch break included.
Round 3 score:
We went back to hotel to start packing for return home. Award ceremony started at 18:00. By the time we got to ceremony area at 18:00, parade was already started. Luckily, US was toward the end of line, so the Poland boy scout holding USA sign didn’t have to walk by himself. Ceremony went very well. Individual’s prizes were enormous as you can see in pictures. Itou won big trophies and Toshiba laptop. Hope he has big suits cases to carry those back. He also won another laptop with Junior category winner. After the ceremony, they had Russian military helicopter fly on top of our head. It was a nice demo flight.
Closing banquet started at 20:00. Everybody rushed to hotel from ceremony to hotel, cleaned up and made to hotel Mlyn which is ½ miles from our hotel. Banquet room was packed. About 300 people in one room, and the A/C room couldn’t keep room cool enough. We sat the table with Polish team and other VIP’s. There were a few wine and vodka bottles on the table. Dwight and Cliff jumped on and started have fun. Only one pilot from Polish team spoke English, but they were very nice guys. I had a few shots of vodka with them, but there was no way I could keep up with them.
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