July 14th: the longest flight ever ?

[redbird300]

Erwin and myself are extremely happy to announce that the FAI officially ratified our world record attempt today.

http://www.fai.org/fai-record-file/?recordId=16596

Look at he first line "Status: ratified - current record"


A big thx to all those that encouraged us, and keep 'em in the air ... a long time, lol.

End of story.

[ragge1]

very nice Raf

[sutty]

Excellent.

[jperkosk]

Congratulations one more time, and I officially owe you this tequila now

[Tomstoy2]

[pinguin]

CONGRATULATION

[redbird300]

Thank you all, and Jerry, I'm sorry but I don't really like tequila, but if you would ever come to Belgium I'll buy you a decent beer to celebrate the record, not that mexican banana stuff. I appreciate the gesture though.

[redbird300]

The Belgian Aero modelers League invited us to their main annual meeting, to celebrate our world record, and we also showed the public a PowerPoint presentation about that record. We did the same thing two weeks ago at the meeting of the Flemish League, and will do the same thing again in a week for the Wallonian League (our small country is divided in 2 districts, the Flemish and the Wallonian part).

You should also know that Will James was kind enough to give us some free HeliFreak swag, as a reward for the record, which we dedicated to HeliFreak. We received some hoodies, HeliFreak stickers and other stuff. To show our gratitude, we are wearing these hoodies at each event we visit, like today, in front of the Belgian public.

Thank you again, Will.

[Tomstoy2]

[jperkosk]

Now when you're famous, Raf, will you sometimes talk to us?

[redbird300]

Originally Posted by jperkosk

Now when you're famous, Raf, will you sometimes talk to us?

Lol Jerry. Been spending a lot of time lately renovating my house, and some other things not heli related, I know. Will be better next summer, I hope.

These presentations only involve the Belgian modelers leagues, so it is still before a somewhat “limited” audience. But imagine that we were very surprised to get the news yesterday that the Belgian Aero club wanted to see us also in March at their annual meeting. This is the organization that is responsible for all air sports, mainly full-size planes, gliders and helis, in other words, but also RC stuff (you know, these grown up boys that still play with toys, lol). For example, it is this organization that recognized our record as a national record last year, and forwarded the whole dossier to the FAI. It’s the highest authority in our small country concerning all air sports. We were of course very pleased to receive such a request, and never expected this.

[jperkosk]

The life of rich and famous

Congratulations once again, my friend, your record was a technically incredible achievement, but don't completely forget us lowly tinkerers

[ragge1]

Raf : lots of time to this summer

[copterboy]

Well done again Guys Great when you can blag free stuff for your hard work. Used to work for me skateboarding

Can't think of 2 more deserved receipients. Arise Sir Raf and Sir Erwin of Helifreakshire. Nice one Will

[redbird300]

Originally Posted by copterboy

Well done again Guys Great when you can blag free stuff for your hard work. Used to work for me skateboarding

Can't think of 2 more deserved receipients. Arise Sir Raf and Sir Erwin of Helifreakshire. Nice one Will

Does that title come with a a beautiful princess ? Because we might be (very) interested in that case...

[jperkosk]

Originally Posted by redbird300

Does that title come with a a beautiful princess ? Because we might be (very) interested in that case...

Only if you design a stealth APV drone with sufficient endurance to hover over her castle long enough to take some compromising videos of the said princes. Then it's a win-win situation because you can either blackmail her into becoming your mistress or, if she resists the logical arguments, just sell the video to the tabloids and become rich

On the downside, if the plot backfires, you might be stripped of the newly acquired knighthood and sent to the Tower of London

[redbird300]

We were invited to the annual meeting of the National Aero Club of our country yesterday, where they handed us the original FAI certificates for the world record. Thought I would post a picture of it, it makes a nice final post to this thread. The FAI is located in Switzerland, so the certificate is in French.

After that, we talked with some of the Belgian officals, and a few of them were pushing us to try another kind of RC heli-related world record, and we found some of them to be rather realistic in fact. So perhaps, in a not so distant future, "we'll be back", lol. You never know. CU all, and thx a lot again for the support.

[sutty]

1h 46m 22s That's just incredible. Makes me smile every time I read it.

[jperkosk]

You can read French????

[sutty]

Nooooo, don't be silly, I typed it into google translate.

Cheers

Sutty