Background
The 2001 FAI F3C World Championship (9th event) was held at the AMA Internaional Aeromodelling Center in Muncie, Indiana, USA, from 9th to the 14th September.
65 Contestants entered from 27 countries to compete for the title.

Amazingly the Japanese teams took 4 of the top 5 places - although being reinging champions they did have 1 more team member than the others.

Check out this site for further info - http://www.rfcnsw.asn.au/worlds2001.htm.

This was the third World Title for Curtis Youngblood.

Top 10 Individual were:
1. Curtis Youngblood - USA - 2968.012
2. Minoru Kobayashi - Japan - 2965.227
3. Yukihiro Dobashi - Japan - 2955.977
4. Katsuyuki Sensui - Japan - 2929.834
5. Manabu Hashimoto - Japan - 2904.526
6. Cliff Hiatt - USA - 2835.289
7. Scott Gray - Canada - 2822.667
8. Johann Hoenle - Germany - 2783.385
9. Wayne Mann - USA - 2694.623
10. Mark Christy - UK - 2653.293
11. Stefano Lucchi - Italy - 2641.17
12. Wolfgang Worgas - Austria - 2511.866
13. Laurent Lombard - France - 2498.398
14. Pascal Brianchon - France 2373.351

The Team Placings were:
1st Japan 8609.322
Manabu Hashimoto, Yukihiro Dobashi, Minoru Kobayashi,
2nd USA 8469.115
Curtis Youngblood, Cliff Hiat, Wayne Mann
3rd United Kingdom 7540.165
Mark Christy, Mark Tilbury, Dave Wilshire