After two further tasks the current title holder Mathieu Rouanet has moved into the overall lead in the world championships currently being held in Beijing, China. The second task of the event was a precision take-off and landing task with seven pilots taking the top spot in the task with a minimum score of 25cm. The third task saw Mathieu beat Spanish pilot Ramon Morrilas by a mere 21 seconds after flying for over five and three quater hours; the pair flew for over an hour longer than their nearest rival. In the trike section things were a bit more sperated with vice european champion Michaela Machartova winning with a flight of just over three hours followed by fellow Czech pilot Petr Matousek and Polish Krzysztof Romicki.

Ojovolador reported that there was controversy when the British team tried to cool their fuel as filling was being measured by volume rather than weight. This was protested and the team were forced to use fuel at the ambient temperature. We are waiting to hear more from our mole on the ground.

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This entry was posted on Monday, September 3rd, 2007 at 4:42 pm and is filed under China Worlds 07.