Succesful test flights with the hungarian Corvus Racer 540

After a lot of tiny and bigger issues, Peter came back smiling from the test flight in Windsor, Canada.

Just some days left to the Windsor Red Bull Air Race, so it was really time to get this job done.
Now it seems, that there are no more questionmarks: Peter can fly the Racer 540 at the race, and nobody can ignore it anymore!

Corvus- New Age of flightstyle

Just after the Rio race, the team headed back to Budapest, but just for short. The new Racer is in Canada now, and the Corvus team started their work on it. Assemble the plane, do some test flights and after the Thunderbolt powerplant arrives to the secret spot of assembly, it will be mounted in.

All we hope, that Peter can fly the new Racer at Windsor Red Bull Air Race on the 5th-6th of June!

So smoke on for the first race-take-off of the Corvus Racer 540!
Till than, enjoy a video of the two seater Corvus Phantom, the bestseller of Corvus Aircraft company.

Results after Q1-Q2 in Rio

This day was not really ours, though Peter had a real good time, due to the penalties for incorrect knife and one too high gate pass, we have the chance tomorrow in the wild card to make it to the top 12.

Detailed results as follows:

	Name	Nation	Start Speed	Q1	P1	Q2	P2	Rnd.	Time	Diff.	Pen
1	Arch Hannes	AUT	362 kph	1:21.52	2	1:20.44	0	Q2	1:20.44		0
2	Lamb Nigel	GBR	362 kph	1:21.30	0	1:21.17	0	Q2	1:21.17	+ 0.73	0
3	Bonhomme Paul	GBR	359 kph	1:23.12	2	1:21.62	0	Q2	1:21.62	+ 1.18	0
4	Hall Matt	AUS	359 kph	1:21.98	0	1:22.26	0	Q1	1:21.98	+ 1.54	0
5	Chambliss Kirby	USA	353 kph	1:22.88	0	1:23.86	0	Q1	1:22.88	+ 2.44	0
6	Ivanoff Nicolas	FRA	344 kph	1:23.42	0	1:24.31	2	Q1	1:23.42	+ 2.98	0
7	McLeod Pete	CAN	362 kph	1:31.10	8	1:23.42	0	Q2	1:23.42	+ 2.98	0
8	Goulian Michael	USA	365 kph	1:24.20	0	1:23.58	0	Q2	1:23.58	+ 3.14	0
9	Maclean Alejandro	ESP	344 kph	1:25.27	0	1:26.61	2	Q1	1:25.27	+ 4.83	0
10	Dolderer Matthias	GER	360 kph	1:25.77	2	1:25.40	2	Q2	1:25.40	+ 4.96	2
11	Rakhmanin Sergey	RUS	356 kph	1:25.53	0	1:32.29	8	Q1	1:25.53	+ 5.09	0
12	Besenyei Peter	HUN	349 kph	1:25.84	2	1:28.29	4	Q1	1:25.84	+ 5.40	2
13	Muroya Yoshihide	JPN	362 kph	1:28.80	1	1:26.05	0	Q2	1:26.05	+ 5.61	0
14	Sonka Martin	CZE	359 kph	1:28.55	0	1:28.72	0	Q1	1:28.55	+ 8.11	0

Peter's comment after trainings

Peter Besenyei (5th) remained safe in the upper half of the table but felt he had little more to squeeze from his MXS-R, which is one of the least modified among the teams. “As usual, I fly better and better times and maybe tomorrow I can fly even better but I am very close to the limit of the plane so I don’t expect a big improvement,” said the Hungarian pilot who is pinning his hopes of a comeback on the new Corvus Racer, expected to be unveiled for the Windsor race. “If I can fly a 1:22 tomorrow without penalties then it should be OK. Any aerodynamic improvements here are of course helping people in the track.”

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It's only 6 days to go till Rio, which is a real spectacular location for the fast and furios Air Race..

Team Besenyei is ready for it, and we just hope, that the weather conditions will be on our side.

Knowing, that our aircraft is not the strongest one in the field, but knowing that we have one of the best pilots gives us the hope to get this time what we all wnat so long ago. Podium again.

Jimbo, our tech has done all his best so stay tuned for the race!

Till than, just a bit of the fun we had in Perth..