The first Indoor meeting of 97/98 season
was held in Carvin (Pas-de-Calais - France) on the
"nice" (the weather is always nice with Indoor, isn't it?)
last week-end of November (Saturday 29th &
Sunday 30th).
Conventional tests (slow and speed races, table
and precision landings, top test, fire ring, etc...),
outstanding welcome, perfect organisation, large audience,
in short a great meeting. No comment on the winners list, I
had to leave before the end!
And, we
had the pilots too! The champions (the French F3A
vice-worldchampion Christophe PLR and his brother were
there...) and the beginners (myself...), those you see
everywhere
(BAT-MODELISME and his
Drosophiles...) and those you almost never see (my wife...),
those who passed all tests (and got a cup) and those who
never tried (to avoid damaging their models...how clever
they are!).
There was also an artist, who thinks a plane
has to be beautiful to fly right (he is Cupidon's author)
and who, for the first time, presented a nice tri-plane.
There was also a genius, keen on technology
(JMP speed controllers), who presented for the first time a
technical marvel: his Horten's wing weighs 125 g only!
There was the one which took off and the one
which did not!
There were scale and classical models,...
There was, there were...many other things.
