Samba Model

Eurotour F3J 2008
Big congratulation to Philip Kolb that again wins the overall Eurotour F3J with his Pike Perfect!!!
Picture - Eurotour link

Hollandglide Eurotour 130 competitors -
big success of Perfect models
1st Philip Kolb PIKE Perfect
2nd Karl Hinsch PIKE Perfect
3rd Jo Grini PIKE Perfect
4th Stanislav Perkovic PIKE Perfect
5th Vitezslav Sterba PIKE Perfect
Results: www.interglide.nl - 60 pictures by Jojo

Eurotour In Munich
1st Philip Kolb PIKE Perfect
2nd Johannes Weber
3rd Karl Hinsch PIKE Perfect

Czech championship
1st Jiri Duchan with PIKE Perfect
2nd Pavel Krištof
3rd Vitezslav Sterba with PIKE Perfect

Junior czech champion became Jakub Lzicar with PIKE Perfect
(attached picture Mčr)

27.june-6.july World Championship F3J, Turkey
PIKE Perfect again world champion thanks to Giovanni Gallizia from Italy. Congratulation!
7 of 11 senior pilots in fly off was flying with PIKE Perfect. 1st place Benedikt Feigl
2nd Jiri Duchan with PIKE Perfect. with the same number of points as beneding Feigl so results of preliminary rounds decided the world champion this time.
Some photos and links HERE

News 2008
* Fuses for 2.4 GHz as suggested by Larry Jolly has proven good and many satisfied pilots already use these fuses. Double World Champion David Hobby from Australia will fly with this version at coming WC 2008 in Turkey.
His model can be seen on the pictures HERE
* Very demanding electro version of PIKE Perfect will be put into production in July 2008. You can see the prototype of electro version on THIS PAGE
* JK Edition - There has been developed a new version of PIKE Perfect on request of Jan Kohout. He required high stiffness with low weight and possibility of using ballast. this version has full carbon fuselage, new ballast system, tape instead of epoxy wipers on ailerons and minimum quantity of epoxy and paint. This version is usable for all conditions except the extremely windy conditions, where carbon socks in ailerons are needed to prevent flutter. Flying weight of this universal version is 2050-2070 g.
Full carbon SL version 1950 g is usable only for light conditions

Some results from competitions

7-8th of June Eurotour in Hungary
1st Imre Kazsap PIKE Perfect
2nd Wojciech Byrski PIKE Perfect
3rd Juraj Adamek

14th-15th of June F3J Eurotour in France
140 competitors. Competition was stopped after 6 preliminary ronds because
of rain. Results are following
1st Robert Braune GER PIKE Perfect
2nd Sebastian Feigel GER
3rd Jiri Duchan CZE PIKE Perfect

31.5-1.6.2008 Podhorany Eurotour F3J
2nd Jiri Duchan CZ, Perfect
Pictures from Podhorany 2008 HERE

Poříčí 26.4.2008 ČR
This was one of qualification competitions for next year F3J European championship
1st Jan Kohout PIKE Perfect
2nd Jiří Ducháň PIKE Perfect
3rd Jaroslav Vostřel PIKE Perfect
These 3 pilots are members of national team for 2008 F3J WC in Turkey
Pictures HERE

26.-27.4 2008 Lodi Italy Eurotour
Very well manned Eurotour competition with 92 competitors. Winner Philip Kolb DE, PIKE Perfect,
2nd Givanni Gallizia IT, PIKE Perfect ,
3rd Filippo Gallizia IT, PIKE Perfect
Pictures HERE
See also: www.f3j.it www.modeltv.it

3.-4.5.2008 Holíč SVK
53 competitors attended the competition in Holic. This competition was followed by very difficult and unpredictable conditions.
1st Wojciech Byrski PL, PIKE Perfect
2nd Vlastimil Vostřel CZ, PIKE Perfect
3rd Jan Leiner CZ, Fazer
4th Vítězslav Štěrba CZ, PIKE Perfect
pictures from Holic taken by Karel Bobcik
Pictures HERE

NEWS for F3J 2007
After successful season 2006 for Perfect this model came through some small aerodynamical and construction modifications. We concentrated on the weak points where model suffered during hard landing, we managed to reinforce these places and keeping the same weight. The actual flying weight of the mostly used and universal full 68 carbon version is 2150-2200g. At the end of last year the demand for super light Perfect increased. We developed special super light version for very weak conditions that is also full
carbon. Flying weight of this version is 1950 g. Some of the competitions this year confirmed justness of this version for calm conditions. Lots of testing and measurements of performance confirmed difference comparing to standard carbon 68 version. But this version make sense only for calm no thermal conditions. WE also considered v-tail version, that's weight would be even 100g lower (1850 g of sl version and 2050-2100 g of carbon 68). But we relinquished from this idea for now because of the worse handling of all v-tail models and also because of the low demand for F3J models with v-tails in general.

7/12 WC F3J 2008 Turkey
Bulletin 0 out - f3jturkey.com

3/12 Philip wins the Eppler Trophy!!!
Philip Kolb wins the famous Eppler Trophy 2007 from BARCS. Congratulation!
Writeup HERE

22/10 Larry flew the first 2,4 Perfect
Larry Jolly have flown the first 2,4ghz Pike Perfect.
Read his first thoughts

12-14/10 Soarist Open 2007
Sadly we did not finish this years Soarist Open in Turkey due to rain on Sunday. But a great competition and a battle among the best it was!
Jojo have a few words and some links

7/10 Daryl Perkins won Visalia Fall Festival 2007
Daryl flew a Pike Perfect. Scores - Club page

22-23/9 Wojciech Byrski wins world cup in Martin
Read his words HERE. Congratulation!

17th Alpine Cup and last Eurotour event 2007
Congratulation to Philip Kolb!
Read more and see pictures

8-9/9 Philip won Eurotour F3J 2007
Philip won also the last Eurotour event of the season and won his 6th Eurotour win this year and have a perfect score of 309p in the Eurotour 2007!!! Congratulation!
Link: Eurotour

19-26/8 EC F3J
Czech Junior team European Champions and Czech Senior team a wonderful 2nd place. A great team effort! Sebastian Feigl is the new European Champion. Congratulation. Marco Salvigni finished 3rd!! with Perfect and Philip Kolb broke a 1,55 line and ended 4th.
Link: http://www.trnavaf3j.sk/
German site - Italian blog - UK updates
NEW Here are some photos

17-19/8 Trnava Cup
Philip Kolb wins the World Cup event in Trnava - the pre event for EC F3J. Congrats again! Amazing!
Link: http://www.trnavaf3j.sk/

11-12/8 Hollandglide
Philip Kolb takes his 5th Eurotour win THIS year!!
Link: Hollandglide - Pictures and updates by Jojo

26-27 Nats USA - Craig Greening winning
Craig Greening new National Champion USA in Unlimited Class 2007. Craig also won 2m class.
Reports from Nats - RCgroups - Pictures by Ben Wilson

14-15/7 Bulgarian F3J Cup 2007
Pike perfect taking the first three places on the Bulgarian F3J Cup 2007. Strong Team Turkey!
Read more

8-10/6 Jerilderie Australia team trial
David Hobby won with Perfect ahead of Mike Rae and Mike O'Reilly both flying Superior. Congrats!
Link LSF Aussie

18/6 Jura's Cup France
Young Italian Junior Galizia wins with Perfect!!
Big congratulation. About 140 pilots entered and 15 pilots in the finals. Philip Kolb broke a line in the finals and did not reach up. 6 Perfects in finals.
Pictures Planet-soaring - Oliver Bordes - results
NEW pictures Vlastimil

3/6 Podhorany
Lots of rain and difficult weather. Jaroslav Vostrel won preliminaries with 5000p. 6 Perfect's in flyoff. 1.Feigl, 2.Adamek, 3.Duchan (Perfect), 4.Jan Kohout (Perfect), 5.Jaroslav Vostrel (Perfect). Eurotour site

26/5 Osiek

14/5 Eurotour Nuthecup 2007
Philip Kolb got a firm grip on Eurotour with
another win in Berlin. See results Senior - Junior
Philip also got more impressive results...
1st place Philip Kolb, GER, PIKE Perfect
2nd Olivier Ladach, GER, PIKE Perfect
3rd Egbert van der Laan, NED, PIKE Perfect
See the Eurotour site - Pictures from Nuthecup

30/3-1/4 Eurotour Istanbul Cup 2007
First Eurotour event 2007 is over and what a blast. It did roll over to a landing contest and it was very interresting to see what the level of launching pilots are up too. Pike Perfect had 5 out of 8 places in the finals and showed that fast launching is another thing this model is good at.
Jan Kohout with PIKE Perfect was first and Philip Kolb with PIKE Perfect second
Jojo have some pictures and some results HERE

17-18/3 North Cyprus F3J Open
Another invitation event at North Cyprus is over. This is a very relaxed and nice event in spring at North Cyprus.
Jojo have some pictures HERE

12/12 Merry Christmas & Happy New Year
Merry Christmas to all our friends and
customers out there! May you have a
wonderful next year. Samba 2006
Download a card and send your friends
Card 1 - Card 2 - Card 3

16/10 Jojo gets H M The King's pokal
Jojo receives H M The King's pokal in Norway for excellent achievement in National Championship and International events. Jojo flew the Pike Perfect!

25/9 Jojo won National Championship F3J
For the 5th time in a row Jojo won the National Championship F3J in Norway. Jojo flew his Perfect in all rounds. Results

25/9 Test of Pike Perfect
RCSoaringDigest have a test of Pike Perfect.
Backup of that issue HERE

12/9 Last Eurotour event
last eurotour competition this year was held in bled last weekend. 90 competitors started. Philip Kolb won after difficult contest and thanks to this he won also Eurotour 2006. Congratulation!!! Pictures.

16/8 WC F3J in Martin, Perfect and David wins"
David Hobby wins the World Championship F3J in Martin and we congratulate!
WC site: www.F3J.sk (check also team section)
Norway's site (Jo Grini): www.F3X.no
South Africa: http://f3j.blogspot.com/

18/7 Larry Jolly gets his first Perfect up!
Read his first impressions and about his first contest.
Larry has also been helping out during release.

10/7 Eurotour F3J in Bulgaria
Philip Kolb reports: Just something for the homepage after a really remarkable, allthough still small competition in bulgaria.
Read more HERE

5/7 Czech Championship F3J 2006
Pike Perfect fits all the top spots!
Congratulation to Jaroslav Tupec!
Read more HERE

22/6 Jerilderie Australia
David Hobby wins this big event using Perfect (5rd), Giant (3rd) and Superior (last rd). 58 competitors and 9 rounds. David's comments HERE
Results on the LSF Australia site HERE

4/6 Eurotour F3J Podhorany
Philip brakes 3 times 1,45mm line and moves out of the finals but Jo Grini got 2nd and Jan Kohout got 3rd with Pike Perfect. Results - Pictures - Jojo's diary

24/5 Eurotour F3J Osijek
Philip Kolb with Pike Perfect got 2nd place in Osijek
Results - Club

15/5 Instructions Perfect
Instructions on building the Pike Perfect is out
Perfect Page

NEW 11/5 Good competition in Holíč
87 competitors showed up for what became a successful Eurotour F3J. Many of those were top pilots. Conditions were very difficult. Light winds changed to strong winds in gusts as a storm was coming in. But there were also calm evening rounds.
Read more HERE

8/4 Perfect start to new model
A Perfect start for our new model. In the first competition we had 3 Perfect's in the finals and all places on the podium were Pike's.
Eurotour F3J in Istanbul:
1. Philip Kolb, Pike Perfect
2. Colin Lucas, Pike Superior
3. Jo Grini, Pike Perfect
Some words from Jojo - Read about Perfect

19/3 Pictures of visit at Samba
Pictures from Philips's visit with the first CNC molds 24-25/5-05 Philip and when Philip, Mustafa and more visited us to bring the first 4 models for testing in Istanbul 28/2-06. See pictures HERE

18/3 New joiner mould Pike Perfect ready
The first joiners were solid but we have now made new mould and saved 17g on each joiner. The new joiners are hollow and weighs 18g each. That is a total save on 34g. It probably sounds little but this is out in the tip and makes a difference.

14/3 Hello out there!
We are still alive and flying. We spent three more days experiencing calmer air. Unfortunately it was again far away from floating conditions.
Read more HERE

2/3 evening from Philip
O.K. Guys, first day's done!
We had more wind today than expected, but nevertheless we went out to do the first flýghts on the Pike perfect.
We spent quite a long time on fixing a suitable CG for that weather and finally I was happy flying it on 107mm measured behind the Rootsections leading edge.......
Read more HERE

2/3-06: from Philip Kolb:
I just finished the first model yesterday and put some pictures in the attachment. Dealing to fix the model was very easy, nothing unexpected, just perfect work done by samba model. The plane looks really promising and whilst the weather down here looks quite promising too (we have some 15°C, partly cloudy skies and about 6m/s Wind) the first flights will take place in a few hours. I surely let you know how it went. Some pictures

Pike Perfect pre-release 01.03.06
We have decided to release some info on the Pike Perfect even though the model is not yet in regular production. More info will come within a week.
Se some pictures HERE

NEW 2/3 evening from Philip
O.K. Guys, fýrst day's done!
We had more wind today than expected, but nevertheless we went out to do the first flýghts on the Pike perfect.
We spent quite a long time on fixing a suitable CG for that weather and finally I was happy flying it on 107mm measured behind the Rootsections leading edge.......
Read more HERE

Czech League F3F 2005
Won by Radek Plch with Pike Brio V and X-tail
Congratulation

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