At the District 7 NSRCA Championships for 2011. Greg won all six rounds in intermediate. In understated fashion, Greg commented: “Nice weekend.”

His SD-10G performed flawlessly and Great had a great time.

Greg showing off his beautiful winning pattern ship with his award and SD-10G!

I also wanted to point out Greg was instrumental in getting us another Single Stick/Foot Pedel setup for an RC pilot who only has use of one arm. Similar to the RDS8000 we set up for John Greenshields , this new SD-10G is spectacular with it’s single stick knob for control. Our service staff diligently on this project and I think it’s paid off!

The foot pedal is connected to a lead we extended out of the bottom of the radio. Next to it is a switch. If the pilot wants, he can flip the switch and the left stick will work as normal. Or, he flips the switch the other way and the pedal and the right stick “rudder knob” is actuated.

And if the pilot wants to later, the knob can even be removed and the radio can work as normal.

Hi Mike,

We just had our F3J soaring team selection event in Florida and you’ll be happy to hear that all of the pilots that made the USA senior team flew the Airtronics SD10G. That is Cody Remington, Tom Kiesling, and myself. I’m looking forward to representing the USA in South Africa next summer.

Best Regards,

Bob McGowan

Mike Greenshields and Airtronics USA,

I wanted to take the time to formally thank the entire Airtronics family. The support that the 2011 US F3B team received from Airtronics USA, and all of the staff that make up the ATX family was really above and beyond. We traveled to Laiwu, China on September 15th, and prepared to compete with the rest of the world from September 23rd through the 28th. We blogged every day of travel on our website, posting pictures and reports daily. Blogging directly to our website ensured that those following our progress would be continually exposed to our sponsors banners, Airtronics being #1.

Attached are some images of all three team pilots using their SD-10Gs. …

The US team won a silver medal for the team score with Kyle Paulson placing 4th, David Klein placing 6th, and Thomas Kiesling placing 8th all using SD-10Gs. I couldn’t be more appreciative of being part of the Airtronics team.

Thank you again for all of your support. It really makes me proud to be part of the family,
David

Ed Franz and Don Richmond at the E-Nats

The Team likes to win. It is true. We are fortunate to have on Team Airtronics some of the most competitive flyers and drivers in the world today. However, Team Airtronics is about so much more than winning a contest. Our true focus is to promote the hobby for fun and competition.

One of those dedicated hobbyists is our own Ed Franz. Ed is modeler through and through. Last month at the AMA Nationals, Ed competed. But more than that he volunteered, providing his own leadership and organization skills to help his fellow modelers enjoy a fun and fair event.

Ed volunteered, competed, and even helped keep his fellow modelers informed about the event. Thank YOU to ED and everyone like him who volunteer at events from Fun Fly’s to the NATS across the country!

This is from Ed:

Hi Mike,

I survived E-Nats this year! Being the event director, Nats News reporter and photographer took its toll on me. We flew in a 115 heat index every day. I am glad to be home.

My personal results:

ALES: 5^th place

28mm: 4^th place

Class A: 5^th place

Class B: 2^nd place

Long week, but fun now that I look back on it. I sent along a picture that was on the back cover of the Nats News.

Ed

AMA Nats Winners - Unlimited Sailplane

Thermal Soaring Unlimited

Cody Remington 1st Place National Champion

Mike Verzuh 2nd

Skip Miller 3rd

Dillon Graves 1st Place Junior

Radio of Choice: Airtronics SD-10G

As our team members put it: Airtronics = Air Superiority

2nd Place in Expert.

Congrats to Lee!

Act FAST, Time is almost up. Photo must be posted to the Facebook page by the 19th (Dec 2010)

Check it out!

FREE RADIO INFO LINK – CLICK HERE

Congratulations, to Skip Miller, World-Champion Daryl Perkins and thank you to all those team members using the SD-10G. And now, it turns out two of the next F3B flyers on TEAM USA will be flying Airtronics! Kyle Paulson, David Klein, you guys rocked!

On the car side, I simply can’t keep up with all the wins with the M11X, there are just too many! Dedicated Team-Airtronics drivers like Ryan Maifield and Ryan Cavalieri are winning almost daily it seems.

I’m proud to be part of Team Airtronics and I’m sure all of our drivers and flyers are too.

But the team is not why we’re here, we’re here to support every modeler flying and driving Airtronics, and I hope you take advantage of that. From our great service to dedicated R&D teams, there’s assistance for every Airtronics owner out there and new product coming in all the time.

Check this out, yes you might have even heard it here first! Airtronics is coming out with a surface pistol grip that features telemetry. And this is an ALL NEW radio from the ground up! It’s called the MT4, it could be out as early as January with legal FCC certification. It’s really cool.

On the airplane side, we have new receivers (two new FHSS3 receivers and a micro 3gram FHSS1 4 channel receiver).  And all of the airplane receivers are now available as 3 packs to save MONEY!

There’s even more coming for 2011 and a lot more team action too. We hope to see you at the field with a new Airtronics radio so you can see why we all bleed blue at Airtronics.

Happy Holidays

Mike Greenshields

This weekend District 4 (Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and Michigan) held their regional championship pattern contest in Hebron Kentucky, just outside of Cincinnati.   This has become a must attend event not only for the D4 contestants, but for flyers well outside the region.  This year was no exception as we had participants from Missouri to Maryland.  The facility was excellent, the attendance was high, and the weather was perfect.

The distribution among the 5 classes was amazingly balanced.  It was refreshing to see a large group in all of the entry level classes.  Advanced had 10 pilots alone.  This is really the first time in many years that there’s been significant growth in precision aerobatics.  I attribute this to a few things, but 2 in particular.  One, the “fad” of 3d flying is starting to run its course, and many are finding the more objective competition of precision aerobatics more appealing.  The second component is cost.  We saw a variety of lower cost competitive setups this week.  Leading the way in that, I’m happy to say, is the ATX SD10G!!  There were FOURTEEN pilots sporting the SD10G this weekend.  With over 1/3 of the pilots flying the SD10, it was clearly the most represented radio system there.    I like to think the low cost of the SD10 has helped in creating a highly competitive, lower cost setup.

The contest was exciting in all classes.  Competition was tight and there was excellent flying in every class.   Sportsman, a class normally attended mostly by local club members, was especially competitive.  Three different pilots won rounds and the final victor wasn’t determined until the last round.   In fact, that was the case in 3 of the 5 classes, making the flying intense right up until the end.

In the end, Airtronics almost had a clean sweep winning 4 of the 5 classes (and taking a close 2^nd in Masters)

Sean Atwood – 1^st Place Sportsman – ATX SD10G

Michael Cillas – 1^st Place Intermediate – ATX SD10G

Anthony Abdullah – 1^st Place Advanced,  District 4 Advanced Champion  – ATX SD10G

Verne Koester – 1^st Place Masters, District 4 Masters Champion – NOT an ATX SD10G…Lol

Mark Atwood – 1^st Place FAI, District 4 FAI Champion – ATX SD10G

While the pattern competition was exciting and intense, this event doesn’t end there.   We also had an electric combat competition and an after dark Night Fly!   We had 14 combat entries flying 3 heats of 4 mins with points for time in the air, ribbon cuts, mid airs and a spot landing.  To say having 14 planes in the air trying to hit each other is intense, is an understatement.  Crazy is more like it.  In the end, 2/3rds of the planes survived, but it was Mike Mueller, an SD10G, and a 5ch rx that won the day with 3 cuts, one mid-air and full “air” time that won the event.

It’s unfortunate that this ends our season, but it’s a fabulous way to go out.  Fun was had by all and with all the excitement, I only anticipate that next year will be bigger and better!

Attached are photo’s of the victors and the whole ATX gang.

Mark Atwood