18th World Spacemodeling Championships (WSMC) (9th WSMC for Juniors)

Vrdnik/Irig, Serbia, August 2010

August 21 – Arrive Hotel “Termal” in VrdnikAugust 22 – Engine testing, practice flying, opening ceremonyAugust 23 – S8 (R/C Rocket Glider) & S6 (Streamer)August 24 – S1 (Altitude) & S9 (Gyrocopter)August 25 – S5 (Scale Altitude) & S4 (Boost‐Glider)August 26 – S3 (Parachute) & S7 (Scale)August 27 – Closing Banquet

Assembled by Trip BarberPhotos by George Gassaway, John Langford, and the Serbian and Russian rocketry organizations

US Team arrives at the hotel in Vrdnik with all of our stuff; local convenience store in background

Sorting through our registration material while waiting for our hotel rooms

Eating our “chicken bone” soup for dinner – every night

Opening ceremony with all the national teams and their flags

The 2010 US International Spacemodeling Team

James Duffy and Tony Reynolds with their S5C (Scale Altitude) models

Matt Steele with his S5C (Scale Altitude) model

Chris Flanigan with his S7 (Scale) N1 model

Scale and Scale Altitude models at turn-in

Scale models at turn-in

James Duffy and Tony Reynols with their S5C (Scale Altitude) models

Scale Soyuz model at turn-in

US Team working on models in our tent on the field as John Langford does some Team Manager work

Souvenir and food sales tent on the flying field

The 2010 WSMC flying range

Keith Vinyard and Chris Flanigan watching and waiting for thermals

US Team members in a quiet moment on the flying field with Senior Team Manager John Langford and Junior Team Manager Bill Stine on left

Russian flier Grigoriy Sergienko clears check-in with his S8E models

FAI Silver Medal winner Alyssa Stenberg with her S8D (Radio-Control Rocket Glider) model

US Junior S8D team member Matthew Berk test-flies his model

US Junior S8D (Radio-Control Rocket Glider) team during competition(L to R) Matthew Berk, Alyssa Stenberg, Craig Vinyard

Silver medalist Alyssa Stenberg and Russian gold medalist Alexey Lutiy at the end of the S8D competition

Serbian girls dressed for the award presentation ceremony

Individual and team awards ready for presentation

Officials ready to present the awards to winners at the end of the flying daySrdjan Pelagic on far left, WSMC CD Andrija Ducak (green shirt)

S8D Junior individual winners, Alyssa Stenberg (Silver) on left

Award presentation ceremony for the winning S8D Junior teams

Junior S8D team winners, US Team (Gold) in center, during US national anthem

Junior S8D Team Gold winners: Alyssa Stenberg, Matthew Berk, Craig Vinyard, Junior Team Manager Bill Stine

Chris Kidwell prepares to fly his S6 (Steamer Duration) model

European S9 (Gyrocopter) model in flight

Rod Schafer prepares to fly his S9 (Gyrocopter) model

Keith Vinyard prepares to fly his S9

(Gyrocopter) model

US S9 team members Rod Schafer and Todd

Schweim preparing to fly

Magda Moses S9 (Gyrocopter) model lifts off as she and

Caleb Boe watch

Checking out an Adrel electronic altimeter prior to flying S1B

(Altitude)

Trip Barber showing his S1B (Altitude) model

prior to its flight

Junior Team member Caleb Boe working on

his flying-wing S4 (Boost Glider) model

before flight

Rod Schafer holding his “Hummingbird” S4 (Boost

Glider) model prior to its flight

Trip Barber launching his S4 (Boost Glider)

model during the competition

Two of the US Junior Team’s “Space Grant” S5B (Scale Altitude)

models prior to their flights

Katie Steele launches her S5B (Scale Altitude) model

during the competition

James Duffy prepares his S5C (Scale Altitude) model for its flight

James Duffy ‘s S5C (Scale Altitude) Bumper WAC model in flight

Team Canada (Taras Tataryn and Fritz Gnass) prepares Fritz’ S5C

Scale Altitude model for flight

US Junior S1 (Parachute Duration) team: (L to R) Manager Bill Stine, John Moses, Emma Kristal, Magda Moses

John Hochheimer launches his S1 (Parachute Duration) model

during the competition

Russian Junior team member loads his S7 (Scale) model on the pad

Results of a catastrophic motor

failure in a Scale flight

Serbian Junior S7 (Scale) team that won the team Gold loads one of their Saturn 1B models

on the pad

Polish flier loads a beautiful Saturn 1B model on the pad during the S7 (Scale) event

Bulgarian team loads a Soyuz model on the pad during the S7

(Scale) event

Chris Flanigan prepares his N1 model on the pad during the S7

(Scale) event

Chris Flanigan’s N1 model in flight

Chris Flanigan with his N1 model after flight, with Mary Roberts

Alexander Levikh of Russia, the Gold medal winner, loads his Soyuz

model on the pad

Alexander Levikh’s Soyuz in flight

Alexander Levikh’s Soyuz stages

Polish team prepares an Ariane model on the pad

Ariane model in flight

Ariane model stages

Antonio Mazzarachio of Italy (an NAR member) receives trophy as

the best flier at the 18th WSMC from Andrija Ducak

US Junior Team dances the night away at the closing banquet

Flags of the participating nations at the closing banquet of the 18th World Spacemodeling Championships