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Handlaunch Glider
Duration Contest
15, May
2005
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The
Hong Kong Radio Control Soaring Society organized a handlaunch glider
duration contest on Sunday, 15
May
2005. This is the first
DLG contest for the
year 2005. The flying site is on an abundant quarry field in Suk Kwu
Wan, Lamma Island. The weather was fine
with very high
temperature measured at 35°C on site. A total of
13 enthusiastic
pilots and their guests participated in this event. The contest was
started at 10:10am with contestants competing on Task B, that means 7
minutes of duration with multiple launch, and the last lunch counted.
Unfortunately, after two rounds of contest, the ground temperature
soared to the highest, and one of our fellow pilots had developed
symptom of dehydration and felt very sick. We then determined to put on
hold the contest and went to the seafood restaurant in So Kwu Wan for
an early lunch while the poor sicken fellow pilot was rushed to
hospital by marine police. After having full lunch, most of the pilots
decided to continue the contest. Meanwhile, the sicken pilots was
recovering very well in hospital and was immediately discharged. He
even decided to come back to the flying site to re-join the contest!
What's a guy! In the afternoon, three addition rounds of contest were
finally completed. The champion of the day is Cheng
Wan Kin. His flying machine was again proved invincible!
Congratulation!
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Competitor
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Model
Used
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Task
B in sec (morning)
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Task B
in sec(afternoon)
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Score |
Rank
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R1
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R2
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R3
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R4
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R5
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Cheung
Wan Kin
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Long Shot
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118
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122
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73
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158
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323
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794 |
1
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George
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Home Brew
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134
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80
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57
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179
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139
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589 |
2
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Pan
Hao
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Long Shot
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92
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138
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120
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123
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49
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522 |
3
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Johnson Yeung
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Long Shot
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66
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89
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170
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79
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112
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516 |
4
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K.Y. Mak
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Long Shot
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59
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88
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77
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110
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153
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487 |
5
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Eric
Wong
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Home Brew
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101
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57
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115
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91
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113
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477 |
6
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Wong
Ming Fai
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Long Shot
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125
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29
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65
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106
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128
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453 |
7
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Stanley
Chan
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Long Shot
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42
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34
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128
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67
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126
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397 |
8
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Y.C. Lui
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Salomi
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0
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0
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79
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44
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127
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250 |
9
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Allan
Yeung
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Long Shot
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80
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20
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30
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44
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41
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215 |
10
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We
are full and ready to
restart the contest after an early lunch
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Johnson
are you thinking about the tactic?
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Is
Eric wondering how to lunch
his plane?
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George
is full of confident
after achieving a long duration score
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Y.C.
are fully recovered from
the morning exodus
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Mak
is moving to position
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The two Yeung's
need to swap
planes after they discovered that the rock is harder than their planes
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Stanley's
newly finished Long Shot - a bit heavier than other top guns
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Kin's
top gun Long Shot - the lightest of all
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See
a movie for Johnson launching his DLG
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The
three beautiful medals for the winners
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Pan
Hao from
Guangzhou got the prize for the second runner up
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George got the prize for the first runner
up
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he was complaining on the 二奶命
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Today
champion is Ah Kin. Oh! You again, should we bar him from taking part
in the next DLG contest?
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A
group photo for all the winners. Cheers!
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A group photo for us to remember. What a wonderful day!
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