Practice day is always the time to study the contestants’ flying form and to seek out model design innovations, and there were quite a few … Read more
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1st TOC, Tournament of Champions 1974
In 1974, Bill Bennett, president of the Circus Circus Group in Las Vegas, launched the very first competition between the best F3A pilots of the … Read more
14. January 2026 -
Pico 5 by Franz Mayr
Franz Mayr from Augsburg was a top German F3A pilot in the eighties. As early as 1973, he designed and built his own F3A aerobatic … Read more
10. December 2025 -
Benito Bertolani`s Settebello
Benito Bertolani took part in the Italian Aerobatic Championships for the first time in 1970 in Bologna with the ‘SETTEBELLO’, which he designed and built … Read more
29. November 2025 -
Dick van Mourik’s enlarged Mäxi
In recent years, I have enjoyed the process of successfully converting several “old-school” designs into the 21st century. However, it was more or less by … Read more
16. November 2025 -
Marabu Trainer
Finally, I present the Giezendanners’ aerobatic trainer design. There are two aircrafts in this new replica series: one is flown by Urs Leodolter, and the … Read more
5. November 2025 -
Mustfire
Reutlingen, September 2025, Vintage Meeting at the FMSC Reutlingen airfield. As every year, the FMSC organises its vintage meeting. Many retro-interested model aircraft pilots, mainly … Read more
3. October 2025 -
Andreas Haessler`s Scalar
Vintagemeeting Reutlingen 2025, Andreas Hässler presents his latest achievement, a ‘Scalar’ to the public. Full content is available to paid subscribers only. Support independent journalism … Read more
30. September 2025 -
We need your help: Identification ‘Extreme’
Our reader Philipp Stratemann has received an aeroplane from the eighties from his uncle. Apart from the fact that it is called “Extreme”, he has … Read more
16. September 2025
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Aerobatic Planes
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Werner Schweiker`s CAP21
Tournament of Champions competition 1982 in Las Vegas, sponsored by the Circus Circus Hotel. The German competition pilot Werner Schweiker was invited for the first … Read more
16. June 2024 -
Gustav Sämann`s Firebird
Gustav Sämann was a German model aircraft designer. As early as the 1950s, he designed various free-flight models, the very first being his Taifun (1951) … Read more
1. October 2020 -
Super Tiger from WIK Modellbau
Here is Wilfried Klinger’s beautiful biplane construction ‘Super-Tiger’. The kit was available for decades as a model kit from WIK Modellbau in model stores. There … Read more
10. February 2024 -
Various F3A model aircraft from 1960
Here is our new section, we have a lot of model aircraft photos where only a few pictures exist. Here we go: Full content … Read more
31. January 2024 -
Valentino Fry`s bats
Valentino Fry’s bats. The ‘Fledermaus’ is one of Valentino’s own designs. He built this model airplane in 1974 as a 1st year apprentice. This airplane … Read more
2. January 2024 -
A Bird Named Banshee
A Bird Named Banshee by Jim Martin The Banshee is a very capable R/C Pattern-Stunt aircraft, intended for competent radio flyers. Listen all you seekers … Read more
6. March 2016 -
Nishioka`s Generous
We received the following message from Gerhard Schmidt: After 34 years, I finally unpacked my two treasures yesterday. The quality of Nishioka’s work is simply … Read more
22. June 2025 -
Spider by Dieter Stukenbrock
Dieter Stukenbrock, known as a top pilot from the early days of RC1X flying, was an F3A Bundesliga pilot in the seventies. He was a … Read more
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