Team Futaba at the U.S. Pattern Nationals

CONGRATULATIONS to Team Futaba members Andrew Jesky and Chip Hyde! They just finished 1 and 2 at the U.S. Pattern Nationals in the F3A class. Andrew and Chip also finished 1 and 2 in the F3A Team Selection Event. This means they will represent the United States at the F3A World Championships next year in Muncie IN. Team Futaba member Brett Wickizer also finished 4th in the Team Selection, making him the alternate for the team.

Brian O'Meara and his F-84 at Phoenix

Brian won "Best Scale Flight" and also "Pilots Choice". There were 60 pilots from California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado and Arizona. The F-84 is somewhat of a rare plane as only two of them are in the US.

Team Futaba at the National Aeromodeling Championships

Team Futaba members have been putting on one heck of a show at the U.S. Nationals, with no less than three National Champions being named so far. This past week Andrew Jesky won the F3A Pattern Nationals. Andrew is also a member of the US F3A World Championships Team and will head to the World Championships in Portugal in early August along with fellow Team USA and Team Futaba member Brett Wickizer.

AJ Seaholm and Teammate (caller) Scott Causey won the Q-40 Pylon National Championships earlier in the month, and Jason Noll took the Scale Aerobatics Unlimited class National Championship.

Congratulations to all Team Futaba members that have competed in the Nats or are soon to compete. We are very proud of all of you!

Team Futaba at the Gold Cup- Back row L-R Lyle Larson, Gary Schmidt, Jim Allen (3rd Place), A.J. Seaholm (1st Place),
Ray Brown (CD), John McDermott, Marcus Blanchard. Front row L-R Scott Causey, Bryan Blanchard

Q-40 winner A.J. Seaholm and his caller Scott Causey

Team Futaba member AJ Seaholm set a personal best time of 58.62 on the way to winning the Q-40 class at the 2009 NMPRA Gold Cup Race in Ft. Lauderdale.

AJ was flying a Speed Pros Proud Bird II guided by a 7C FASST with an R617FS receiver.

Jimmy Allen took 3rd place at the event.

Congratulations to AJ, Jimmy and all of the Team Futaba members at this race!

Jason flew very consistently and precisely capturing second overall at the 2009 E-TOC. Both Jason and fellow team member Andrew Jesky suffered zero's when they unknownly flew out of bounds on a couple of flights. This was due to a misunderstanding by almost all of the pilots of where the zero line was. However, Jason battled back with near-perfect flights to capture second.

It was clear that Jason had his freestyle perfectly matched to the rules as he also captured the title of Freestyle Champion. This prestigious award is presented to the pilot with the highest overall score in the Freestyle segment of the competition.

Congratulations to Jason and all Team Futaba members for another great performance at the E-TOC.