Airtronics Sweeps Arizona Southwest Soaring Festival

On the west side of the country, the Airzona Southwest Soaring Festival is the hot/big soaring contest that kinda’ starts off the competition season. And like so many other contests (like when Airtronics Pilot Bob McGowen won the Masters last year or when his son kicked but in Turkey at the World Champs in Junior F3J) Airtronics AWESOME pilots (yes, I’m biased and proud!) won this weekend.

Skip Miller tells me that Cody Remington (F3J Jr World Champion from 2006) took first, Daryl Perkins (Mult-time world and national champion) place 2nd, Skippy took 3rd, and Mike Smith came in 4th.

It seems it was a tight contest but in the end our pilots came out on top.

CONGRATS to everyone involved! Way to go TEAM AIRTRONICS!

Now, these guys are all flying the older top of the line Stylus. A great radio, but it’s about be replaced in these pilots’ hands by the new SD-10G. Skip showed this spectacular radio to the glider pilots at the contest this weekend and the feedback, in the words of Skip Miller, are summed up in 1 short phrase:

SD10G huge success.

It’s that simple! This competition 2.4GHz radio is MADE with competition in mind. And in Glider mode, it has what every glider pilot needs. From channel delay to setup for a 6 servo wing, to mixers with 9 points, this radio is easy to setup, intuitive to use, and will make glider pilots everywhere happy.

Airtronics pilots for years have said “Fly Airtronics, Get the Advantage”. They’ve then proven it with win after win.

This year will be no different. The SD10G is set and ready to give pilots the ADVANTAGE. Hype? Maybe. But with wins for decades and with a radio that was the results of a year of consultation between Sanwa programmers and USA Airtronics pilots, I believe this radio is truly awesome.

I can’t wait to show it to everyone in Toledo! Looks like we’ll be ready to go about that time!

And again, Congrats to “the TEAM”!

Fly Airtronics, Get the Advantage.

Mike

F3J Worlds 08

Saillplanes are an amazing discipline within our hobby. These high-end, high-performance, seemingly endlessly complicated aircraft require the latest techniques for design and construction to have an even remote chance of being competitive. The skill to set one up and fly it properly is amazing as well.

The F3J Catagory for World-Competition is an interesting part of the competition sailplane world. This is where sailplanes are hand-towed and then compete for a set time and then end the flight with a precision spot landing. Cool stuff.. really.

The worlds are at the end of this month in TURKEY! Talk about a long jet-flight to then fly in highly intense competition for a week!

First, if you haven’t done so, Visit the Official Team USA F3J site! Airtronics is a sponsor of the team and sponsors several of the pilots. Remington, Perkins, and Mc Gowen for example. They need your support and have a raffle as well as T-shirts and hats for sale to raise funds.

http://www.usf3jteam.com/index.php

There is also a website with more information about the F3J Worlds. Check it out!

http://www.f3jturkey.com/index.php

Also note that several Canadian Team pilots are sponsored by Airtronics as well. You have to wish our friends from the North good luck as well!!! We want a good showing for all of North America! Don’t let the Western Europeans keep the glory for themselves!

So, please support the USA F3J Team and check out this amazing aspect of competition flying!

Good Luck to All the Pilots!!!