Category: F3A / RC1 Planes

Valentino Fry’s bats. The ‘Fledermaus’ is one of Valentino’s own designs. He built this model airplane in 1974 as a […]

Here is Wolfgang Matt’s A-model ‘Opal 2’ used at the 1995 World Championships in Osaka / Japan. Built by the […]

Our Swiss colleague Nello Nero is a passionate collector of beautiful F3A airplanes. Here is his ‘Suprastar’. Full content is […]

In 1975 and 1977, the Norwegian RC1 aerobatic pilot represented his country Norway at the Model Aerobatic World Championships in […]

Manitu – the successor to the RC1 legend “Mephisto”, In the 1970s, the Bavarian model pilot Harald Neckar was Germany’s […]

The F3A model Papillon was developed in 1981 by the German F. Grützmacher and produced in small series. It could […]

The year was 1985, a time when RC-1 was the pinnacle of model flying skills and the only source of […]