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
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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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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 -
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 -
Ivan Kristensen`s Saturn
This is the 1975 Saturn competition model by Canadian Ivan Kristensen. Ivan also took part in the 1977 Tournament of Champions T.O.C. in Las Vegas … Read more
25. March 2024 -
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 -
Doug Spreng`s Stormer
Our Belgian colleague, Edward Vandermeulen, has struck again. His latest work is a scaled-down replica of the Doug Spreng Stormer construction from the early Sixties. … Read more
22. October 2025 -
Urs Leodolter`s ‘Scorpion 1’
Urs Leodolter, organiser of the annual Retroday in Pfäffikon, is a Giezendanner specialist. As a young boy, he learnt how to build and fly from … Read more
16. July 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 -
Alfred Trettenbein`s Zlin Z-526
May 1st, 2025, yesterday we received photos of his latest aviation creation from our Austrian comrade Alfred Trettenbein. A Zlin Z-526 has done it to … Read more
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