Here is today's video!!<div>
</div><div>[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC_RCvsvRTs[/youtube]</div><div>
</div><div>Ken</div>

Invariably at competitions such as these, most of the attention is given to the pilots and the planes and, after being here a week, I can certainly say that I've seen some incredible planes and some extremely skilled pilots. However, it is often said that behind every great man is an even greater woman (often telling him what he is doing wrong). As such, I'd like to take the time to recognize the women in our hobby for their contributions which make gatherings like this possible. So here are the unsung heroines of the event, The Ladies of the 2011 Jet World Masters. We thank them for their love, support, and hard work.

Johnnie Andrews - USA
Anne Tapin - England
Claudia Arnaboldi - Italy
Verrique Zandini Sauvage - Belgium
Parichat Tosanguar - Thailand
Luce Simard - Canada
Kathleen Young and Lisa Willis - Greene County Convention and Visitors Bureau - USA
Dawn Lazzarine - USAF Museum Event Logistics - USA

More of The Ladies of the 2011 Jet World Masters

Jayce Andrews - USA
Vreni Buhr - Switzerland
Shelby Storrie - Canada
Vreni Rutimann - Switzerland
Carol Brusa - USA
Caroline Thabert Avonds - Belgium
Edina Horvath - Hungary
Danielle Almeter - USAF Museum Event Logistics - USA

More of The Ladies of the 2011 Jet World Masters

Staci Richardson - USAF Museum Event Logistics - USA
Godelieve Verdickt - Belgium
Rita Schaer - Switzerland
Tamara Howkins - Canada
Rae Ann Martin - USA

I'll take and post a better photo. The model is awesome!

I've been saying for a long time...PA designs and builds the worlds best building and flying scale jets! i'd love to have one of these.

Here are shots that I took Thursday afternoon of Philip Avonds and his beautiful Fouga Magister, it was a real pleasure talking to him.

Just a sampleing of the images that will be included in the AMA's Model Aviation coverage of the JWM 2011.

Here is today's video <div>
</div><div>[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb0N5aX1Gh4[/youtube]</div><div>
</div><div>Ken</div>

More of The Ladies of the 2011 Jet World Masters

Leslie Greaser - USAF Museum Event Logistics - USA
Pat Oche - USAF Museum Event Logistics - USA
Teresa Montgomery - USAF Museum Event Logistics - USA
Claudia Westerholt - Germany
Silvia Farovini - Switzerland
Paola Rossina - Italy
Kitty Hazeborg - Netherlands
Susan Bauer - USA

More of The Ladies of the 2011 Jet World Masters

Olga Satovskaya - Russia
Evi Bruhin - Switzerland
Sabine T Engelke - Germany
Annet Kallenbach-Gartner (Happy 29th Birthday) - Germany
Kerstin Avemarg - Germany
Doreen Stapler - Germany
Roswitha Lenerz - Germany
Brigitte Dotzauer - Germany
Helga Weber - Germany
Sue Foster - USA

The lovely and talented "Reta" Senn - Switzerland

It would be very nice to have some news about the pilots and the aircraft rather than the obsession with the women at the event. The only actual news coming out is on the Dutch web site

http://dutchjetteam.nl/

I see that some pilots have dropped out after static judging ..... which ones and why?
Was Marijn the only one to struggle to meet the weight limit?

Static judging finished at 18:30 local time Saturday and hopefully we will see a score sheet soon.

John

There are no scores that are posted or known until the end of flight round 1, and there is a minimum of 2 hours between coming out of static judging and being expected on the flight line. Flying for the last 24 hours have been mostly caught up and waiting for pilots to come out of static juding.

So... there should be some information on the standings soon....

I personally would like to Thank Jim (RCJets63) (first photo) for taking the time to post his photos, Jim is the Lead Aircraft Safety Inspector of this event and has taken over a week of his time to volunteer to help out, just like all of the other volunteers at the event.
I was on site from Thursday at noon until Friday evening and all I can say is all of the volunteers are doing a fantastic job!, especially under the extreme heat conditions. I can tell you being on site and waiting for the official flights to take place was like watching paint dry. There was more action during the open flying and demo flights, but I understand that that is the way it is in competitive flying…so no big deal.

It’s too bad that you feel that there is an obsession with some of the photos posted, I think it’s a good human interest item and a way to fill in the gaps in the coverage.

The “Official� posting of the standings should come from the officials in charge of the event (anything else would be a rumor), and like was stated will be done in due time. I believe that the first order of business is the running of the event for the people who are actually on site.

From being on site I do know the inside side story why a team dropped out, but like I stated that information should come from the officials, what I can tell you is that volunteers bent over backwards to try to prevent them from dropping out.

I did appreciate the link to the Dutch web site, I had to laugh as they too posted a few photos of the Women of the WJM, along with some great info on their opinion of the McDonalds sauce to use with their Chicken McNuggets… they apparently didn’t like any of the sauces… I like the Sweat and Sour sauce myself! (see photo from their site)

I did meet a few members of the Dutch Team, what a great group of guys, Derk van de Vecht and his father were great to talk to.
I also meet Winfried Ohlgart at the Hotel bar Thursday evening…. Thanks for the Beer Winfried! I really enjoyed talking to you also.

Friday afternoon I was enlisted by Eric Clapp at the Jet Central booth to help a young gentleman build his Boomerang Sprint, he has had it for over a year and didn’t have anyone to help him, it was fun helping a young person (Lee) who has a desire to move into the Turbine aspect of our great hobby. I hope he gets his Boomerang finished soon so he can enjoy Turbine flight, we gave it a good effort Friday afternoon
All in all it was a fun event to visit; I wish I had more time to stay…

And the fact is that some of the women pictures that was posted were instrumental in promoting and helping get this event off the ground. If it wasn't for the spouses of the pilots being there some of the pilots may not have been able to attend the event at all. So let the women have their moment of glory.
And besides that no one is forcing John to look at the photos so just skip over them.

Sorry I did not mean to cause offence I just wanted to know what was happening in the competition.

John

Well said Bob and good for you Rich and Eric for helping that young man out with his Boomerang and even at your busiest time there. That kinda stuff is what makes a sport like this long lived.

I went to the JWM in Ireland and I have to say I would never go again. As was said a couple of posts above the competition flying is like watching paint dry and is very boreing in my opinion. In my view the competition bit is simply not a spectators event. Also in Ireland and it sounds like the same was true here you were unable to get very close to the models to have a good look at them. To some extent I can understand this but it does somewhat take away from the interest as far as a spectator is concerned.

I am sure I will get flamed for this post but it is my view from attending the event in Ireland and indeed reading between the lines in respect of a few posts here. I am sure people would not wish these forums and threads like this to simply be a repeating list of people thanking the organises etc. I feel it is important to hear some honest views both good and bad. Looking at the pics so far however this event does seem to me to be considerably better that the Ireland 'event'.

It is important to understand that many people use these forums to weigh up if they will attend an event in the future. I travelled to Ireland at considerable time and cost and was as disappointed as I think I could be and I would not wish others to suffer the same. So if a person thinks an event was poor or could be better I feel it is important that they say so

Regards

Dennis

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Anyone have pics of the Breitling jet? I was there today for awhile and that was the most impressive jet I seen fly. Lots of good looking and flying jets there though.

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