Here are photos from the early days of RC motorised flight – Munich legend Karl Blauhorn. In the early 1960s, the Munich model flying club … 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
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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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Bruno Giezendanner`s Salamandre
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
13. August 2022 -
Michael Gebauer`s Leopard
Today we received photos from our Austrian driving instructor of his latest acquisition: a beautiful ‘Leopard’, built from a Bauer-Chocal kit with prefabricated fuselage. Full … Read more
21. July 2025 -
Hanno Prettner`s Super Sicroly II
Austrian Gerald Zikulnig is an enthusiastic model builder and especially a convinced Hanno Prettner fan. He now owns several Prettner constructions. Among other things, he … Read more
28. October 2025 -
Manitu – F3A retro aerobatic airplane by Harald Neckar
Manitu – the successor to the RC1 legend “Mephisto”, In the 1970s, the Bavarian model pilot Harald Neckar was Germany’s best aerobatic pilot. He won … Read more
22. October 2022 -
Building report Kosmo 3, Toni Bäuerle built it
Toni Bäuerle: Ciao Kosmo! Sometime in the summer, Maurizio and I had the idea of building the KOSMO 3 model by Benito Bertolani. Full content … Read more
26. February 2025 -
Guenter Hoppe`s Sultan 5
Guenter Hoppe qualified for his second F3A World Championship in Springfield in 1977. To do so, he needed a new competition aircraft. No sooner said … Read more
3. December 2025 -
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 -
Hanno Prettner`s Primero 120
Retroday 2025: Urs Leodolter presents one of his latest achievements: The PRIMERO 120 by Hanno Prettner. Full content is available to paid subscribers only. Support … Read more
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