Boeblingen, 2024: 1st Kurt Bauerheim RC1 Vintage Meeting: Christian Wolf flies the original ‘Pico 5’ successfully flown by Bavarian competition pilot Franz Mayr during the 1983 F3A Aerobatic World Championship in Pensacola / USA.
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Martin Schempp fly his Admiral
Seen at the FMSC Reutlingen airfield: Martin Schempp flies his Admiral
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Jean-Claude Spillmann fly Curare
Pfaeffikon, July 2023, Retroday: At this event we met our Swiss collector colleague Nello Nero. He had brought a few of his collector’s items with him to Pfaeffikon, including a beautifully built Curare.
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15. F3A WC 1987 France
The year is 1987 – what a luck. The Australian participant, Chris White, and the Finn Ahti Yliriesto provided us with great photos. Ahti also filmed some of the flights. The films can be seen on Youtube, we have included the links in the report. Thanks to Jay Smith, chief editor of the AMA magazine Model Flying for the report by Ron Chidgey. Full content is available to paid subscribers only. Supp … Read more
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2. F3A Hohenzollerncup 1984 in Hechingen
On 26-27 May 1984, 23 pilots from six nations met at the MFC Hechingen for the second international Hohenzollern Cup. The new F3A manoeuvre program was to be completed for the first time with international participation. Ralph Müller was there: Full content is available to paid subscribers only. Support independent journalism by subscribing today.
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9th TOC, Tournament of Champions 1988
DATELINE, LAS VEGAS, Nevada, November 10-13, 1988: The ninth edition of the International Tournament of Champions took place under the benevolent aegis of Circus Circus Enterprises at RC Model Airfield in the North Las Vegas Regional Park. Full content is available to paid subscribers only. Support independent journalism by subscribing today.
Continue readingStuyvesant Squadron story
In the early 80s, the synchronized flight squadron suddenly appeared. Sponsored by the tobacco company Reemtsma. The Stuyvesant squadron. It had never happened before: a model aircraft team as an advertising medium for Germany’s largest tobacco company. And with the best model airplane in the world at the time: Hanno Prettner’s Curare. Full content is available to paid subscribers only. Support in … Read more
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T.O.C. 1994
The world’s best Aerobatic pilots compete for the largest purse! Norm Staub, an employee of the American model magazine Model Airplane News, was on site and wrote the report that appeared in the April 1995 issue. We are kindly allowed to use this old report, the MAN editor, Debora Cleghorn, has allowed us to use the article. Full content is available to paid subscribers only. Support independent j … Read more
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T.O.C. 1978
1978, the next T.O.C. competition, sponsored by the Circis Circus Hotel in Las Vegas. The ‘Model Airplane News’ original report is available on the following page thanks to the kind permission of the MAN editor-in-chief. Photos by the German pilot legend Guenter Hoppe. Full content is available to paid subscribers only. Support independent journalism by subscribing today.
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8th TOC, Tournament of Champions 1984
The year is 1984. Bill Bennet had called again. For the eighth time, the Tournament of Champions was held in Las Vegas, USA. All the big-name pilots rushed there. Of course, everyone had brought a new competition-ready aircraft with them. Full content is available to paid subscribers only. Support independent journalism by subscribing today.
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