• Slope Soaring at Dune du Pyla
  
  
• 2nd France Indoor RC Meet
  
  
• RC Hotel - Corfou Greece
  
  
• France Indoor Meet
  
  

Carvin, France - The First season's Indoor RC Meeting was organized by Pascal & Nathalie Nowik, of ZN Line, on 25/26 Nov 2000. It was a nice and cool meeting with the presence of the High Tech masters like Jean Yves Martin, who brought some Ultra lights and the record Ultra Light RC Plane (8.9g) He told me that it is obvious now, that he would be able to build it lighter easily!! The Plane body is too strong so he can save weight. It's a plane where the weight constrain was on the engine and battery (See pictures), and the Radio system (Proportional servos, believe it or not).

Old planes replicas craftsmanship was at top level as with the flight quality of these nice indoor vintage planes. Most of these planes were subject of articles in RCM, such as the Flying Torpedo and the Farman MF11 Bis 1915 by Giovanni Zamparo (RCM March 2000). Christophe Paysant-Le Roux was there as well.

You will see that the Indoor models are capable of stunts. They are also very fast to build and simple; Christophe finished a plane during the Meeting. It was amazing to see the use of high-tech Futaba Radio 9ZAP WCII used alongside such a simple plane design. During the contest Christophe was nice to help everyone, answering questions but also physically helping others(Setting the Brand new YS91 on bench.. Etc..)

Lunch was offered to the pilots by ZN Line. The atmosphere was nice and friendly. I had the chance to have lunch with Christophe / Pascal Novik and Laurent Michelet Chief Editor of RCM Magazine. Of course the conversation was more than interesting, discussing about what happened at TOC and IAM. For IAM I learned W. Matt did not use the Smaragd because weight was more than 5kg, and the plane was rejected. The discussion was....very interesting as it was fascinating.- Serge Bordais

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