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Past Raffle Winners

GatorF3B drew a big raffle for the 2011 contest on Sunday afternoon Feb 27th 2011 at the contest with over $1,000 being raised towards the Team USA F3B fund. We are proud to be supported by many wonderful merchant sponsors and the list kept growing every day right up until the last day of the contest. Please support these generous RC aeromodelling businesses by purchasing from their stores. The links below will take you to their websites so you can check out what products they have to offer and support them as supporters of RC Soaring. Raffle Tickets were sold each day at the contest site and it was very well supported. Thank you to all those who dug deep to support the US Team. Prize winners who pre-purchased tickets here or were not present for the drawing had their prizes shipped USPS after the event.

CST Sales – Your Composites Super Store. – Six (6) X $50 Gift Certificates.
Kennedy Composites – Soaring Champion’s center for sailplanes & soaring supplies! – 1 Vladimirs Models “Elf” Hand Launch Glider.
Soaring USA – Your #1 Source For High Performance Sailplanes & Electrics On The Planet! – 2 X $50 Gift certificates, 2 X Blue Caps, 3 Tan Caps, 4 X T Shirts, 10 X Stickers.
Castle Creations – Quality R/C products for affordable reliability! – 2 X Berg 7P RXs, 2 10Amp SBEC, 2 CastleLink Quick Connect, 1 X 50 amp Lite ESC with BEC, 1 X 100 amp Lite ESC with BEC
Peak Electronics – Home of Sirius Chargers – The best RC chargers On The Planet! – 1 X Sirius Charger Limited Edition.
Horizon Hobby – For JR, Spectrum and everything you can imagine Radio Control! – 1 X RTF Radian Electric Sailplane
Frank Tiano Adhesives – Your source for the original Zap CA adhesives and more! – 12 X ZAP, 12 X Zap A Gap, 12 X Slo Zap, 12 X Zap Kicker.
Radio Carbon Art – Take your soaring skills to the next level. – RCA Soaring DVD’s!
Great Planes – Hobbico – The Worlds Best R/C Products! – 1 X Real Flight G5.5 Simulator
Tower Hobbies – World’s Premier Supplier of the Finest in RC Models! – 2 X $10.00 Gift Certificates.
Tailwind Gliders – For excellent instructional videos for building sailplanes – 2 X Instructional videos

The prize winners that were at the drawing to receive their prizes were not all recorded so the list below is not quite complete. Those that had prizes shipped were as follows.
Gator F3B Raffle winners that were not present for the drawing will have their prizes mailed today. The list below is not entirely complete but covers most of the winners.
Please support the very very generous sponsors who donated to this cause with some fantastic prizes. Please also be kind enough to thank them when you are on the phone placing an order or at least email them a thankyou note.
This list of Winners is not quite complete:

  • Mike Verzuh, CO – 1 Bottle of Zip Kicker from Frank Tiano Adhesives, DVD Guide to cutting and bagging wings from Tail Wind Gliders, 7P Full range Rx from Castle Creations, 2 X $50 gift certificates from CST – The Composites Store, Soaring USA sticker from Bob Breaux.
  • Art Scheurer, FL – 1 Bottle of Zip Kicker from Frank Tiano Adhesives.
  • Gary Fisher, FL – Soaring USA T shirt from Bob Breaux and Frank Tiano Adhesives Zip Kicker.
  • Tom Malle, IN – Soaring USA Cap from Bob Breaux
  • David Beach, NH – Soaring USA T Shirt and Sticker from Bob Breaux
  • Glauco Lago, MO – Soaring USA Sticker
  • Regis White, MD – Phoenix IceLite 100 ESC from Castle Creations
  • Lou Montante, FL – 10Amp BEC from Castle Creations
  • Paul Bell, – Zip Kicker from Frank Tiano Adhesives and a Quick Connect from Castle Creations.
  • Kai Yang, CA – Quick Connect from Castle Creations and a Soaring USA sticker from Bob Breaux
  • Scott McFarlane, CA – Tower Hobbies Gift Certificate, Soaring USA T Shirt, Soaring USA Cap and Soaring USA sticker from Bob Breaux, Soaring Master Class 3 DVD from Paul Naton at Radio Carbon Art.
  • Sean Brown, FL – Sirius Limited Edition Charger from Joyce Joy of Peak Electronics and Zip Kicker and a bottle of Zap CA from Frank Tiano Adhesives.
  • Don Grisham, FL – 2 bottles of Zip Kicker from Frank Tiano Adhesives, The Best Of Scale Soaring from Paul Naton at Radio Carbon Art and 1 beautiful Vladimir ELF Hand Launch Sailplane from Barry Kennedy at Kennedy Composites.
  • Alyn Jackson, FL – Soaring master Class 2 DVD from Paul Naton at Radio Carbon Art.
  • Charles Frey, VA – 1 X $50 Gift Certificate from CST – The Composites Store and a Soaring USA Sticker from Bob Breaux.
  • T Grady, FL – SoaringUSA Sticker from Bob Breaux.
  • Kris Van Nostran, FL – SoaringUSA Sticker from Bob Breaux.
  • Danny Dowling, FL – 1 X $50 Gift Certificate from CST – The Composites Store
  • Dennis Phelan, CT – 1 X $50 Soaring USA Gift Certificate and a Soaring USA sticker from Bob Breaux, and a 7P Full Range Rx from Castle Creations.
  • Hutch, FL – 1 $50 Gift Certificate from CST – The Composites Store and 1 RTF ParkZone Radian from Horizon Hobby.
  • Gerry O’Keefe, FL – Real Flight G5.5 Simulator from Hobbico and Great Planes, Soaring USA T Shirt and 2 X Soaring USA Caps from Bob Breaux, DVD Redline Sky from Paul Naton at Radio Carbon Art, Bottle of Zip Kicker from Frank Tiano Adhesives and a $50 gift certificate from CST – The Composite Store.
  • Rich Burnoski, IL – Gift Certificate from Tower Hobbies.
  • John Vennerholm, FL – Phoenix IceLite 100Amp ESC from Castle Creations.
  • Alan Marshall, FL – Soaring Master Class 2 DVD from Paul Naton and Radio Carbon Arts.
  • Lewis Gray, FL – Composite Pod and Boom Construction DVD from Tail Wind Gliders. Lewis Gray kindly donated the DVD back to be drawn again. Thankyou Lewis.
  • Ed White, FL – Soaring Master Class DVD from Paul Naton and Radio Carbon Arts which Ed kindly donated to me as he has it and recommends that I watch it., Thankyou Ed.

    • A very big thankyou once again to all the sponsors who donated the prizes and to all the many generous buyers of tickets. I will have a total of the money raised for the team just as soon as I complete sending all this stuff off and finishiing the count. It was a huge success no doubt.
    Gordon