Airships over Ingria, 2nd Competition Flight
[SATURDAY] [SUNDAY] [SUNDAY EVENING FLIGHT] [FIRST COMPETITION FLIGHT] [TUESDAY] [WEDNESDAY] [ORANIENBAUM] [FLIGHT 3] [PRIZE GIVING] [COMPETING WITH AIRSHIPS] [COMPETITORS] [DOCUMENTS] [STAFF] 
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Second Competition Flight

Weather briefing
DR. BOJKO GIVES US THE WORKS AT THURSDAY AFTERNOON TASK BRIEFING: THUNDERSTORMS COMING FROM WEST ONE AFTER ANOTHER.
Gloomy pilots
FORECAST CAUSES GLOOM IN THE AUDIENCE. WE PROCEED TO TUUTARI. WE HAVE PERMISSION TO FLY UNTIL MIDNIGHT.
Pit in Tuutari
TUUTARI AT 19:35, WINDY. MEDIA INTERVIEWS EVENT DIRECTOR PIT THIBO.
Rain
THEN IT RAINS NEARBY. ONE OF THE THREE OFFICIAL RANGE ROVERS.
Oscar sewing
AT 21:35 OSCAR LINDSTROM PUTS FINAL STITCHES ON HIS ENVELOPE. BIGGER AND DIFFERENT.
Birthday Cake
21:50, NOT YET AN AIRSHIP BUT FRANK PRELL'S BIRTHDAY CAKE BALLOON.  IT IS STILL WINDY AND THE APPROACHING CLOUDS HAVE NOT GIVEN UP.
22:33
AT 22:33 SUN HAS SET BEHIND TUUTARI HILL. MARTIN HAS PIBALLS READY IN PLASTIC BAGS. HE HAS ASSURED EVERYDODY THAT WEATHER IS FLYABLE AT 23:00.
Green flag at 23:00
FINALLY GREEN FLAG (AND RAINBOW) AT 23:00 IN THE SHADOW OF TUUTARI HILL.  ONE HOUR LEFT TO FLY THE TASKS.

TASKS. Tasksheet gives two tasks, one for speed and one for precision. Gate, pylon and target positions are given on appendix.
Pylonrace begins
PILOTS TAKE OFF AS SOON AS THEY CAN FOR THE FIRST LAP OF PYLON RACE. MUCH BIGGER AND DIFFERENT.
Pylon Race
AIRSHIPS HAVE TURNED THE PYLON AT THE OPPOSITE  END AND ARE NOW RACING BACK. BIGGER.

nose up
SOME AIRSHIPS ARE SHORT AND THICK, SOME LONG AND ALMOST SLENDER, SOME BETWEEN THE TWO. HIGH AIRSPEED TENDS TO LIFT THE AIRSHIP'S NOSE UP, AND HOT AIR KEEPS IT THERE.

RIMAS IS STRUGGLING WITH THAT PHENOMENOM DURING THE PYLON RACE.

HIGH AIRSPEED LIFTS THE NOSE OF LONG AIRSHIPS AS WELL, BUT IT RESULTS IN TWISTING  THE HULL SO THAT AIRSHIP RESEMBLES A CUCUMBER MORE THAN A THICK CIGAR

THAT HAS HAPPENED TO GENNADY'S AIRSHIP
Twisting with speed

Nigrowsky goes
BORIS NIGROWSKY TAKES OFF HALF AN HOUR AFTER THE OTHERS. IT LOOKS AS IF HE WERE CHASING A FIESTA BALLOON IN A HARE AND HOUNDS TASK.
RESULTS OF THE PYLON RACE. Besnard was the fastest with 17 minutes 45 seconds. Oparin had the second best time but his penalty points dropped him to rank 4. Eckardt was second in points and Contegiacomo third. Result sheet reveals that Ushakova and Kostiuškevičius forgot to fly through the finish gate, which robbed them of the time they had been fighting for.

Bamberski at target
BAMBERSKI APPROACHING BULL'S EYE TARGET. OPARIN OVER TARGET IN BIG PICTURE.
Lindström at target
IT IS ALMOST MIDNIGHT WHEN OSCAR LINSTRÖM DROPS. DETAIL.
RESULTS FOR THE PRECISION TASK. Result sheet shows that the Bull's Eye Target task is a failure in the sense that it is unable to rank the pilots in order of their steering skill: 8 out of 11 competitors dropped their maker on red and received the same 300 points each. The X-target task works a little better, but three pilots dropped their marker at the very center. These tasks are certainly difficult, but to skillful pilots they are nevertheless too easy.

Besnard, Galkin and Lindström were the three best in Precision Task. Besnard horded 2180 points during the second competition flight.