I just returned a few hours ago from Las Vegas where I spent a full week attending the “Align Competition & Fun Fly” along with Mike Fortin and Craig Martin.

Craig and Mike competed in the Advanced class and they finished 5th and 6th respectively. I competed in the Masters class and finished 7th. Mike flew well, he completed all his flights and had a pretty consistent performance. Craig had some of the best scores in the known maneuvers, but had a bad crash on his second freestyle flight, which resulted in a zero score. Nonetheless he recovered and finished 5th. As for myself, I was off all week, my known flights to the required maneuvers were horrible and to top it off, I hit the tail on the ground during my first freestyle flight while doing piro-flips on the deck, which resulted also in a zero score. I managed to bump myself up from second to last to 7th place thanks to my last freestyle flight.

All in all, we had a lot of fun in Vegas, this event is well worth it, lots of international pilots, great friends and of course the best entertainment any city can offer!

My friend Derrick Threatt from rcheliresource.com compiled the following ”teaser” video of the event that is second to none. Derrick’s video work is superb!

More coverage of the event is available at http://www.rcheliresource.com/ as well as at http://www.runryder.com/