2016 World Championships for Space Models

August 22-27, 2016 Lviv, Ukraine

American World Space Modeling athletes took to the fields of Lviv for the biannual gathering of nations to determine world champions in space modeling. Team USA brings home three individual gold medals, one team gold medal, two individual silver medals, three team silver medals, one individual bronze medal, and one team bronze medal.

The Senior Team USA also placed third overall at the competition to score bronze. What an outstanding accomplishment for all who participated.

The USA final podium results are:

S2P (Precision fragile payload) World Cup  –

Sr. Individual Gold –  Emma Kristal

Sr. Team Gold – USA

Jr. Individual Silver  –  Ashley VanMilligan

Jr. Individual Bronze  –  Allison VanMilligan

Jr. Team Silver – USA

S1A Altitude (Junior)  –

Individual Silver  –  Ashley VanMilligan

Team Silver – USA

 

S1B Altitude (Senior)  –

Individual Gold  –  Dr. Bob Kreutz

Team Silver – USA

 

S5C Scale Altitude (Senior)  –

Individual Gold  –  Matt Steele

 

S8D R/C R/G (Junior)  –

Team Bronze – USA

 

Congratulations to all of the team members, supporters, and captain John Langford for this awesome showing at the international competition.

28 August WSMC 2016 Event Results

Noosphere did a terrific job promoting the 2016 WSMC event.  This YouTube video highlights some very impressive flights:

Final Days event ended with Scale Model Competition for Senior and Junior Division.

Saturn V
Saturn V

The Individual Senior competitor from the Czech Republic, Jan Sebesta submitted a scale model of the Saturn V .  The static scoring points were 516 for static display. He was one point shy in the static scoring against the Ukraine Mykoia Pushkar who entered a scale model of the Zenit 3SL rocket who had a static score of 517.  Jan’s Saturn V rocket had a successful first launch that gave him a score of 240 (Total points 756).  Mykoia had a DQ on his first attempt.  The second flight attempt was successful, however he only

Zenit 3SL
Zenit 3SL

gained 236 points (Total points 753).  It was a very very close competition.

Complete results of the days events are here:

28 August WSMC 2016 Results

Final results of the 2016 FAI S World Championship for Space Models

http://www.fai.org/fai-slider-news/41967-eventid9881-final-results-of-the-2016-fai-s-world-championship-for-space-odels

 

Estes Mega Mosquito on a CTI E22-5 Smokey Sam Reload

Estes Mega Mosquito with digital camera
Estes Mega Mosquito with digital camera

The little E 22 CTI 24mm 1-grain reload worked perfectly with a 5 second delay. The camera is the keychain digital camer model 808 #16 model.  The holder is a 3D printed shroud that can be easily attached to a 2.0 inch diameter body tube.

The web link is: http://additive-aerospace.myshopify.com/collections/video-camera-shrouds/products/808-16-camera-shroud

and the creator is Andrew Diehl.  He can be contacted at Andrew@AdditiveAerospace.com