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Issue No 9 - March 1999
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NEWSLETTER OF THE FAI
AEROMODELLING
COMMISSION (CIAM)
Editorial
Issue No 9 March 1999
CIAM FLYER is the official newsletter
of the FAI AEROMODELLING
COMMISSION (CIAM),
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CIAM FLYER is published under the
auspices of the Information and
Education Committee of the CIAM
originated by Art Schroder (US),
Chairman, I.&E Committee, 1980-90.
Editor: Jack Sile, 21 Bures Close,
Stowmarket, Suffolk, IP14 2PL,
England.
Telephone: UK 1449-675190.
E.mail Jack Sile
[email protected]
Contributing Editors:
Eric Clark
Pierre Chaussebourg
Mike Colling
Joze Cuden
Martin Dilly
Horace Hagen
Ian Kaynes
GS Lynn MBE
Srdjan D Pelagic Sandy Pimenoff
Jon Robinson Pawel Wlodarczyk
Special thanks to all those who
contributed photos and articles. Also
additional thanks to Suffolk Offset,
Ipswich, UK, for their technical
support and advice.
Opinions expressed by authors and
correspondents are not necessarily those of
the Editor or of the CIAM/FAI.
Articles from CIAM FLYER may be
reproduced under the conditions that
acknowledgement will be given to the
author, original source if any, and
CIAM Flyer.
Front Cover Photo:
Tatiana Moskalieva of the Ukraine was a
clear winner of the Junior World
Champion title. Her best flight time was a
remarkable 38 min 9 secs.
Cover photo by Sandy Pimenoff.
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I would like to thank all those that helped in
putting this issue together. Once again there is
a fair crop of reports and photos relating to
CIAM Championships and World Cup events.
In l998 I participated, as a Team Manager for
New Zealand, in the first F3J World
Championships. This was a very exciting
experience and is somewhat of a milestone in my modelling experience.
This is for me, a very important step along the way in a fairly new career
in international aeromodelling. On the other hand, one man who has had
a long and distinguished career in our sport/hobby is our President, Mr.
Sandy Pimenoff.
I relinquish the rest of my editorial to the FAI’s Secretary General.
Jack
PIMENOFF RULES CASI
Despite a career of unrivalled and length as President of the FAI
Aeromodelling Commission (CIAM), and the award of the FAI Gold
Medal for the services he has rendered to air sport, the energies of Sandy
Pimenoff show no sign of abating. At the FAI General Conference in
Toulouse (3O September 1998) he was elected as President of CASI, the
General Air Sport Commission of FAI - which has responsibility, amongst
other things, for the General Section of the Sporting Code containing rules
applicable to all forms of sporting aviation. So now full-size aviation is
under the control of an aeromodeller. It says much for Sandy Pimenoff ’s
reputation and legendary chairmanship skills that he defeated all comers to
take this key FAI post.
Max Bishop
FAI SECRETARY GENERAL
NOTE
To CIAM delegates, modelling editors, columnists, record holders,
modelling instructors and other modellers.
CIAM FLYER is compiled from YOUR contributions.
Closing date for the next issue is January 14, 2000.
Your help will be greatly appreciated.
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PRESIDENT’S CORNER
New opportunities big challenges
by Sandy Pimenoff, CIAM President
Aeromodellers, dear friends,
A
long with the rest of man
kind we will soon enter the
third millennium and we
are already into the preparations for
the second World Air Games, to be
organised in 2001 in Spain. The
future certainly offers aeromodellers
exciting visions, but also serious
challenges.
It is a fact that we generally have
not taken our public relations very
seriously. This has had several
drawbacks. One is that our reclusive
attitude
does
not
make
aeromodelling too attractive to
young people. We need newcomers
to fill our ranks, but competition is
tough and they are often lured away
to more “glamorous” activities.
Another negative effect is that in
our crowded world large segments
of the public have begun to regard
us as a mere nuisance, and indeed
increasingly as a dangerous
nuisance. We all know the results;
lost flying fields, bans on model
flying, scarce support from society.
So, where do we go from here? I
am convinced that in order to gain
wider acceptance from society, and
bring in more young people into
our sport we need to make it more
spectator - and media friendly.
What does this require? It first and
foremost requires that we modify
our competitions to make them
comprhensive and exciting for the
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public and media, which they today
are not.
Hearing the shouts of protest
rising I must hasten to assure that
the objective is not to compromise
the sporting element, but to
enhance the status of aeromodelling
in the eyes of both us, the
modellers, and the public. These are
in fact problems that concern all air
sports and there is now a joint effort
to change this situation to the
better in progress.
In Lausanne, new home of the
FAI, a Media Workshop was
organised in February, with
representatives of all Sporting
Commissions and professional
media people. Our target is the
2001 WAG, the objective to create
interesting background information
about air sports, contests and
competitors and above all exciting
events for spectators and the media.
There is not much time, we have
two years to establish new
competition concepts and put them
into practice. And to succeed we
have to start thinking in new ways
and accept new ideas. But if we
want aeromodelling to develop and
grow in the future, there is no other
way.
Welcome onboard the future!
Sandy Pimenoff
CIAM PRESIDENT
CIAM/FAI OFFICERS 1996/97
PRESIDENT
1st VICE PRESIDENT
2nd VICE PRESIDENT
3rd VICE PRESIDENT
Technical Secretary
Secretary
Assistant Secretary
Mr. Sandy PIMENOFF (FN)
Mr. Pierre CHAUSSEBOURG (F)
Mr. Werner GROTH (D)
Mr. Andras REE (HUN)
Mr. Bob UNDERWOOD (U.S.A)
Mr. Chris GREENWOOD (AUS)
Mr. Pierre CHAUSSEBOURG (F)
SUBCOMMITTEE CHAIRMEN:
Information & Education
F1
F2
F3A
F3B
F3C
F3D
F4
F5
Space
Mr. Mike COLLING (GB)
Mr. Ian KAYNES (GB)
Dr. Laird JACKSON (BG)
Mr. Ron CHIDGEY (US)
Mr. Thomas BARTOVSKY (CZ)
Mr. Horace HAGEN (US)
Mr. Robert BROWN (US)
Mr. Narve JENSON (NOR)
Mr. Emil GIEZENDANNER (CH)
Mr. Srdjan D. PELAGIC (YU)
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ALPHONSE PENAUD DIPLOMA
Y
ou have certainly heard about this
F1C flyer, Eugene Verbitsky, who
has
devoted
his
whole
aeromodelling career to this class of
models. Eugene started aeromodelling as a
student of an aviation institute in Kharkiv.
Soon he joined the USSR’s national team.
When one sportsman, who was twice his
age, was not ready to take part in a
European Championship, Eugene replaced
him at the last moment. He became
Champion of Europe at the age of 20. He
won this title 5 times: in 1958, 1984,
1986, 1992 and in 1998 when he hit 60.
One can only envy such longevity in sport.
He was the World Champion 1987, 1997.
He was a World Cup winner in 1992,
1996, 1997 and 1998. Moreover, to be a
World Cup winner three sucessive times is
a record in itself. But the fact that today he
is the owner of three main cups in the
world, namely World Champion 1997,
European Champion 1998 and World Cup
winner for three years is the highest
Eugene Verbitsky by Mikhail Zakharov
original record in aeromodelling. Many
times he was a silver and bronze medal
winner at World and European
Championships 11 times he became the
Champion of the USSR and was many
times Ukraine Champion as a republic of
the USSR and as an independent country.
The number of innovations he has given
F1C is also record-breaking. To recall his
innovations, means to recall all of the
history of F1C progress. In the official
CIAM nomination list for the Penaud
Diploma there wasn’t enough space to
enumerate all of his innovations, but some
ideas were, folding propellers, propeller
brakes, VAT and wing VAT, modern
designed models with a bunt mechanism,
etc. Last year he showed a reductor, which
reduces the number of a propeller’s
rotation. As a result he has found a solution
Winner with three main cups and Penaud
Diploma
to a problem that has been tormenting
F1C sportsmen for a long time.
Eugene helped a whole generation of
F1C flyers in USSR, Ukraine and other
countries. The new sporting year is
beginning and we are looking foward to
more surprises and new ideas from Eugene.
The Challenge Conquered!
Report by the BMFA News Editor Eric Clark
Photograph courtesy of British Aerospace
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Chris Fulton and Corey Davis.
CLAYTON HIGH SCHOOL team of
Joseph Coppin, Richard Jenks and Robert
Green took second place in the Junior
section.
Third place in Senior were Ivanhoe
College and third in Junior Herman
Middle School. The winning scale model
award went to Dowend School with their
model of a BAC Lighning.
Photo: B.Ae.S. Geoffrey H. Lee
F
arnborough, famous in the aircraft
industry most of this century, had a
new success with the home team of
WAVELL SCHOOL winning the Senior
section of the BRITISH MODEL
AEROSPACE CHALLENGE FINALS at
Olympia on the 2nd of January, 1999. The
school represented by David Ley, Steven
Ley and George Wiles swept, not only to
victory but set new B.Ae.S. records for the
BMFA Dart, with a flight of 53 seconds
and their Helicopter of 33 seconds.
The Junior section was a triumph for
the SHERWOOD JUNIOR SCHOOL of
Warsop in Nottinghamshire, with the team
of Lauren Dean, Sarah Drury-Watson and
Craig Scott ahead of the rest of the Juniors.
The longest travelled team from Belfast
in Northern Ireland, LAGAN COLLEGE,
took second place in the Senior section and
a1so took the hand Launched Glider
B.Ae.S. record of 12 seconds with a scale
model of a Vickers Type 22. The Lagan
College team comprised Stephanie Wilson,
by Eric Clark
Wavell Junior School.
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ANTONOV DIPLOMA for Technical Innovations
J
ack North, who died early in 1998 at
the age of 76, was one of the major
figures in British free-flight for over
half a century. He always took the direct
and simplest approach to the solving of
design and flying problems, but always
with a firm eye on the physics involved.
During wartime service in the RAF, he
worked with early Bendix GCA radar and
was based for a time at Cambrai airfield,
where FAI World Cup contests were to be
held 50 years later. While setting up one of
the first two Bendix units at Melsbroek in
Belgium, he heard a lost USAAF Liberator
pilot asking for help in dense fog, and
talked him down to a safe landing; the
pilot had never heard of ground-controlled
approach radar and Jack received a
Christmas card for many years from his
grateful wife.
After the War he worked for a time at
Woolwich Arsenal, but arranged a move to
work on aerodynamics at the National
Physical Laboratory. There he became
interested in wind tunnel shock wave and
airflow visualisation, and helped to develop
the Schlieren photographic techniques that
were vital to the development of supersonic
flight. He wrote some of the standard
works on the subject, and his work was
recognised by the award of the Royal
Photographic Society’s Hood Medal for
distinguished
contributions
to
photographic science. For the final phase
of his career he worked in the Neherlands
R J ‘Jack’ North
on the design of the European Transonic
wind tunnel.
After membership of TMAC and the
Blackheath club, he joined Croydon &
DMAC in 1947 and became the quiet but
driving force behind Croydon during the
club’s most successful years. He was one of
only two people ever to represent Britain in
all three outdoor free-flight categories on
World Championship teams. He managed
the British team at the Säve World
Championships in 1971 and the New
Zealand one at Wiener Neustadt a couple
of years earlier, as well as serving on the
free-flight technical committee of what was
then the SMAE. His Ariel control-line
aircraft helped numerous people to
progress to aerobatics from basic roundand-round flying, and his published freeflight designs, all of them contest-proven,
included Torpedo, Upstairs Maid, North
Star, North Pole and Weatherbird.
He pioneered 1/2A FF flying in the UK,
using Cox Thermal Hopper and Holland
Hornet engines, and was one of the first to
use the then-sensationally large 300 sq. in.
open rubber model, but still found time to
develop and operate the early scoring
system used at the World R/C Aerobatics
Championships at RAF Kenley in 1962.
One system for which Jack will be
remembered was the rubber winding tube
and motor cartridge. After clubmate
Archie Allbone in the late 1950s broke a
long series of motors Jack came up with the
idea which has saved countless broken
models since. Like all his systems, he
published the details so others could
benefit. The same applied to the bubble
machine and electronic thermal detection
methods, but it was perhaps Jack’s
pioneering article, graphs and data on
rubber testing in the magazine Model
Aircraft that enabled many people with a
less objective and scientific approach to
their flying to at last understand how a
rubber motor really worked and could best
be used.
It was for these aspects of Jack’s model
flying career that he was awarded the 1998
Antonov
Diploma
for
technical
innovations.
FAI AEROMODELLING GOLD MEDAL
A
warded the FAI Aeromodelling
Gold Medal in 1998, Ian has been
chairman of the CIAM Free Flight
Subcommittee continuously since 1978.
This period has included membership of
the FAI Jury at 17 World or European
Championships. In 1987 the Free Flight
World Cup was instigated, which has
tremendously increased the interest in
international free flight competitions, with
beneficial effects on both the participation
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Ian Kaynes
and the number of events.
Ian began competing in free flight
rubber, glider and power competitions in
1964 (after dabbling in fun flying of
control line and radio) and has represented
the UK twice in F1B.
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Europe Airsports recommends policy on
the further harmonisation of model radio
control frequencies within the European
Union
Presenter: Mr GS Lynn MBE,
Aeromodelling Working Group Co-ordinator, Europe Airsports
N
ever before have we in the model
flying community had a better
opportunity to consolidate the
frequency channels we would wish to
utilise in to the new millennium. In their
last review of the current allocations of low
power frequency devices, such as radio
control transmitters, the Commission for
European Post and Telecommunications
(CEPT) Working Group FM established
there was scope for some consolidation in
the bands and channels allocated for model
control across European Union states.
Much of their findings were made possible
because of the excellent work undertaken
by Tony Aarts, the previous CIAM
Technical Secretary, in producing the
consolidated listing of frequencies and
frequency bands allocated in the various
nations, world-wide, for the control of
models of any type.
In formulating their recommendations,
the members of the Working Group fully
understood the need, on safety grounds, of
an exclusive allocation of channels for the
control of flying models. In essence, they
recommended that 23 channels within the
35MHz band (34.995 - 35.225MHz,
10KHz spacing, 100mW erp) be allotted
for the exclusive control of flying models.
In addition they also noted there were five
channels within the 27MHz band and four
channels in the 40MHz band where there
was a significant degree of commonality in
allocation within member states.
It was with the Working Group
comments fresh in my mind that I
addressed the 1998 CIAM Plenary
meeting in Paris, where I must say I was
most heartened by the support and cooperation I received from the delegates in
respect of Europe Airsports leading a
review of what further opportunities may
exist for an increase in the formal
allocation of ‘harmonised’ frequencies for
model control throughout the Member
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States. Delegates will recall I did not
underestimate the complexity of the task
that lay ahead especially when, after many
years of use in most Member States,
35MHz allocations for model control have
still to be secured in others.
Review of Frequency Band
Allocations
Currently there are three major bands
allocated to model control in Europe,
27MHz, 35MHz and 40MHz. In addition
there are selective allocations in the
41MHz band (France and Italy only) and
the 72MHz band (Belgium and France
only). I also note that some countries have
secured allocations in the UHF band but at
present there is no commonality in the
allotments made, but this is and area which
must be explored for the future. But first a
review of the major bands with my initial
views.
27MHz. The problems associated with
the dual use of the 27MHz band for CB
use and for flying model control are well
known. To my mind, from a safety
perspective alone, this band should remain
primarily in the domain of the surface
model user.
72MHz. Clearly this band is utilised
widely in the USA, Canada, Japan and
New Zealand. However, within Europe
there is major problem which precludes
this band from serious consideration. A
primary user of the 72MHz band in
Europe is Private Mobile Telephony and
transmissions in the order of 25W are
quite common. With this in mind I believe
the 72MHz band could suffer the same
incipient problems that we have all
experienced to some degree with our
previous usage of the 27MHz band.
Therefore, for the present I do not believe
there is scope for European wide ‘safe’
allocation of 72MHz band frequencies for
the control of flying models.
35MHz. With the advent of the recent
recommendations made by CEPT
Working Group FM I believe there is now
an unparalleled endorsement of the need,
on safety grounds, for a unique band
allocation for the control of flying models.
It has been argued that the allotment of 23
harmonised channels is insufficient, in the
long term, for the effective management of
model flying events and competitions.
Indeed, in the more densely populated
areas where flying sites are at a premium
and frequency sharing between sites is
required, the allocation may be woefully
inadequate. To my mind, within Europe
we should move for a contiguous allocation
of 35 channels within the 35MHz band, in
the range 34.995 to 35.345MHz. Initially,
we should retain the 10KHz spacing;
however, in time it may be possible to
reduce the spacing to 7.5KHz thus making
more channels available. As you are aware
though, reducing the band width is not
without its pain or expense but clearly it
would remain an option for the future.
40MHz. It would be very simple to
argue that the model flying fraternity
should also stake a claim for allocations
within the 40MHz band; however, I
remain to be convinced of the necessity if
we are able to secure a greater allocation, as
discussed above, in the 35MHz band. To
my mind the 40MHz should be developed
in parallel with the 35MHz band, but for
the use of surface models. This twin
approach should be well received in Europe
and I believe stands the best chance of
universal endorsement.
UHF Band. Following discussions with
my experts, I believe there is merit in
exploring a frequency allocation in the
UHF band for the exclusive use for flying
models. Currently there is little
commonality in the few allocations that are
already in place. However, if we are able to
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secure an allocation in this frequency band
then ‘Time Division Multiplexing’ can
become a reality, and we could benefit
quite significantly from the availability of
such technology. Clearly, I do not wish to
expend too much time exploring this
option if there is no real prospect of a
common allocation being made, in what is
a fairly well used band.
Proposal
Following my review of the frequency
bands, I believe the preferred strategy for
establishing a greater allocation of
harmonised frequencies for model control
lies in the expansion of allocations in the
35MHz band for model flying and in the
40MHz band for surface model control.
This should be backed by a further review
in the UHF band to establish if there is
scope for a cost effective development of
equipment in that band if an allocation of
frequencies, can be established for the
control of model aircraft.
The Way Forward
At the CIAM meeting delegates from
the European Union countries agreed that
they should:
* attempt to ascertain if an additional
allocation of channels within the
35MHz band was a practical proposition
within their country, such that a
harmonised allocation of 35 channels in
the 34.995 to 35.345MHz band could
be achieved throughout the Member
States of the European Union.
* advise what, if any, allocation of
frequencies had been made within the
UHF band within their country for the
control of flying models.
* advise if there is a potential for the
allocation of channels within the UHF
band for the control of flying models. If
so, what is that allocation likely to be?
* advise if there is a potential for the
allocation of channels in the 900MHz
band for the control of flying models. If
so, what is that allocation likely to be?
* advise if there is scope for the greater
allocation of channels in the 40MHz
band for the control of surface models. It
would seem reasonable to seek an
allocation of 35 channels in the 40.650
to 41.000MHz band.
Once the respective delegates have had
the opportunity to ascertain the details in
their individual countries and provided me
with the basic data, Europe Airsports will
be better placed to prepare and submit a
suitable case to CEPT for the further
consolidation of frequencies for the longterm benefit of the model flying
community. If you feel you have a positive
contribution to make to the debate, please
contact your CIAM delegate without
delay; I feel sure they would welcome your
input. If, at this time, we do not take this
opportunity to further our cause then all
we can look forward to is the continuation
of the present country specific allocations
of frequency channels, with little prospect
of further harmonisation’s being possible
and this would be to our detriment.
Rest assured Europe Airsports will do all
it can to influence a further move towards
a greater allocation of ‘harmonised’
frequencies with the CEPT , but we do
need the inputs from all the individual
country delegates so they can be analysed
and the best case prepared. I look forward
to receiving the information just as soon as
it can be obtained. Many thanks to the
delegates of Belgium, Germany, Holland,
Ireland and the UK for your initial inputs.
Free Flight World Cup by Ian Kaynes
T
he 1998 Free Flight World Cup
was again a successful event. There
is a significant fluctuation in total
number of
F1A/B/C participants
according
to
whether
the
FF
Championships are European or World,
the latter usually attracting many more
entries in the adjacent open international
World Cup event. Comparing the 1998
World Cup with 1996 (the previous
European Championship year) shows the
same number of competitions and a
slightly larger number of participants in
each class in 1998. There were more F1E
competitions in 1998 compared to 1997
and there are already more participants
even without the final competition
included.
Another similarity with 1996 was that
F1A, B and C were all won by Ukrainians.
Victor Stamov again won F1A, Oleg
Kulakovsky won F1B, and, for the third
coinsecutive year, Eugene Verbitsky won
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F1C. 1998 saw the introduction of a bonus
point system giving extra points to people
placing ahead of a large number of other
competitors. This makes it very much less
likely that there will be a tie on the number
of points from three events, but the
winners this year would also have won
under the previous system: Victor with 5
wins, Oleg and Eugeny both with 4 wins.
FF World Cup results are made
available on the internet. As competition
results are received and entered into the
results system a new web page is generated
and sent directly to the relevant pages of
the aeromodelling section of the FAI web
site. Thanks are due to Thierry
Montigneaux in the FAI Office for
facilitating the FTP access for these
updates.
Competition results not received for
Oberkotzau, Germany
World Cup 1998 final results F1A
1 Viktor Stamov
UKR
2 Rudolf Holzleitner
AUT
3 Ferenc Kerner
HUN
4 Per Findahl
SWE
5 Stanistaw Kubit
POL
6 Jeno Voros
HUN
World Cup 1998 final results F1B
1 Oleg Kulakovsky
UKR
2 Bernd Silz
GER
3 Anselmo Zeri
NED
4 Harald Meusburger
AUT
5 Alexei Bukin
UKR
6 Pim Ruyter
NED
World Cup 1998 final results F1C
1 Eugeny Verbitsky
UKR
2 Marek Roman
POL
3 Gabor Zsengeller
HUN
4 Artem Babenko
UKR
5 Jyri Roots
EST
6 Reinhard Truppe
AUT
World Cup 1998 F1E - latest
1 Juraj Uhrin
SVK
2 Ivan Treger
SVK
3 Daniel Petcu
ROM
4 Eugen Pop
ROM
5 Milan Mravec
SVK
6 Reinhard Wolf
AUT
153
147
145
123
118
114
161
154
153
126
124
121
156
152
142
135
126
125
126
107
87
86
80
72
7
EDUCATION REVUE
odel Aviation Education world
wide is steadily growing with
more people and organizations
realizing the benefits of using model
aircraft as a means of teaching students a
multitude of skills and subjects. The
CIAM Information and Education Sub
committee is encouraging National Aero
Clubs, National Model Federations and
the like to set up their own aviation
education programs by making available
information such as model aircraft designs
and literature which has been successfully
used by others. All this information has
been put together in to the ‘CIAM
Education Resources File’ and is being
made available to any interested
organization at the cost of production and
postage.
CIAM Education
Resources File
demonstrate the magic of flight to 30 to 40
thousand youth and adults.
It
happened...at The Boeing Company inside
the 767 Factory at their Family Day
celebration. Nearly 100,000 visitors came
to see where the Boeing widebodies are
designed and manufactured. Youth saw
where their parents work and got a close
look at places where it all comes together.
Boeing Model Airplane Program,
supported by Quality Assurance
Engineering, organized a unique
presentation of modelers and Boeing
employees to provide a diversified
opportunity for youth and adults to better
understand “the theory of flight” and
“what it takes to make Boeing airplanes” all
in one place.
The four sides of the flying site (150 x
200 feet) were named: “Education
Avenue”, “Modeler’s Row”, “Scale Street”,
and “Pennyplane Place.” Street signs gave
the impression that Mr. Rogers was on the
planning committee and that this was a
user-friendly neighborhood of learning and
excitement. It was.
On “Education Ave.” managers,
engineers, technicians, mechanics and
educators volunteered to share with visitors
aspects of their professional experiences
that would encourage and empower a
better understanding of what makes the
Boeing working environment an exciting
place to be. Visitors could ask questions
directly of those who do the work, design
the airplanes and manage the process. It
was an incredible energetic exchange for all.
Along “Modeler’s Row” we had demos
and displays of R/C models (Keith
Dubendorf ), secondary (Karl Brown) and
middle (Derek Van Dyke) school
programs, Northwest modelers (Al Borer,
Dick Brooks, Gil Coughlin, Larry, Steve
and Aaron Dona, Charlie Higgins, David
M
Any one purchasing the CIAM
Education Resources File will have their
name and address recorded and any
updates or additions to the CIAM
Education Resources File will be sent to
them annually. We would like to encourage
any one who is successfully using aviation
material to send a copy for inclusion in the
file. If you find a particular design that is a
great educational aid, how about sharing it
with the rest of the world? To make
copying simple please ensure that all items
to be included in the file are printed on A4
and A3 paper and sent to the address
below. The main language used in the file
is English.
We also ask that if you decide to use a
model design or some material that is
contained in the Resources File, then
please contact the originator of that
material to let them know you are using it,
as no doubt they will be interested. The
present cost of the Resources File is £15
sterling, this covers production costs and
postage; annual updates (when required)
will be free of charge. To save exchange rate
costs it would help if the payment is in
British currency. The address to order your
Resources File is:Mike Colling,
403 Mossy Lea Road,
Wrightington, Wigan,
Lancs., WN6 9SB,
England.
Boeing Everett Family Day
In the USA the Boeing organization,
organized an open day. Keith Varnau
reports on the model side of the event and
writes as follows: Imagine having 2.4
million cubic feet of open air space to
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by Mike Colling
Higgins, Daniel Gorsline, Bruce Kimball,
Neil Knutson, Darryl Stevens to name a
few), and Educational Consultants (David
Elliot, Keith Varnau) - all providing flight
demonstrations.
There were Indoor models in the air for
10 hours straight. At the BMAP display
area, the event coordinator invited youth
to sign a poster that read, “I flew an indoor
model airplane in the 767 Factory.” Each
youngster had a chance to fly one of the 40
different models that were ready to be
wound or assembled for the skill level of
the participants.
The most popular models were:
Helicopter, Eazy-B, “Saran Wrap Giant”,
Pennyplane, and Double-sized A-6.
Modelers, Fred Hollingsworth, Canada,
and Warren Williams, Southern California,
donated many of the models flown by
youth at the BMAP display. Young pilots
walked to a miniature (plastic) version of
Paine Field International Airport, taped to
the floor, for launching. When the models
were launched their eyes got BIGGER, and
their mouths dropped open. For 2 to 9
minutes, quality time was spent with the
youth talking about characteristics of the
model, their interests, vocational goals,
importance of science and mathematics in
building models and real airplanes, being
there with them until the model landed.
Pictures were taken and models returned,
the successful challenge bringing smiles of
satisfaction. Then the next and the next...
approximately 125 youth participated in
“Model Airplane 101” process with BMAP
Coordinator, Keith Varnau.
Of course there was the question: “Are
these models for sale?” We tried to explain
that this was a “do and watch” thing not a
“give and take” thing. Anyone, interested
enough to fill out a “Follow-On” response
card will receive a summary newsletter and
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model plans as requested. Over 150 cards
were turned in, 75 having some special
comment or request.
It was important that we attempt to
provide as much educational and inspiring
activities for youth, the next generation of
Boeing employees. This type of event
happens every 7-9 years. Besides the
modeling, we arranged for a computer
drafting demonstration in the 777 Tunnel
Theater, seating 200. Every 25 minutes,
visitors saw a CATIA Demo,
Illustrating the methods of creating
airplane parts on the computer. Showing
samples of the computer technology may
encourage youth to consider computer
science as a career.
Family Day was, in a way, an informal
Career Day. Our survival depends on the
next generation of Boeing employees to
keep the magic of science, services,
technologies and mathematics we know
today, growing into the 21st century.
In the minds of many youth, the models
they flew are still flying....!
Below was the original proposal for the
event:Proposal of Youth Activities for Everett
Family Day - Sept. 13, 1998
* To show, in miniature, the
manufacturing process of the major
components of a Boeing airplane
* To provide an exciting and educational
display/presentation about the “Theory
of Flight”
* To fly a scale model of the 777 and
other indoor models inside the Factory
* To illustrate ways that “mathematics
and science” are important in the design
of models and Boeing airplanes
Featuring:* Flight demonstrations provided by
experienced modelers (Boeing
employees & retirees)
* Questions & Answers Booth - Youth
may discover the similarities between
models and Boeing airplanes
* Construction Demo - Modelers will
show building technique, similar to
ways we build Boeing airplanes
* (i.e. drawing, materials, tooling, and
assembly)
* Video presentation (repeating - 2 - 4
minutes)
* Information Table - Sign-up for a
packet of information, to be sent after
event, such as:-Website locations,
educational materials, plans, reference
literature, future opportunities.
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Facilities:
* An open area in the Factory
(approximately the equivalent to
one/two airplane slants - or available
space)
* 30 tables and 30 chairs (for display,
information and flight demos)
* PA system (optional)
* Near a CATIA computer terminal
(would be ideal for design/technical
demo)
* Yellow tape to identify “flight and demo
areas” Career Opportunities:
* Modelers will show a connection with
their models and the many different
aspects of the “aviation industry”
* Illustrations of the ways “mathematics
and science” concepts apply to aviation
will be shown
* Community and national programs
available - (i.e. AMA - Academy of
Model Aeronautics)
Follow-On
* Evaluation of activities for youth
* Family Day Model Airplane
Information Sheet (11 x 17) with plans
for model to build.
* Advanced information Staffing:
* Volunteers - 25 to 40 Northwest indoor
modelers (Boeing Employees’
Aerodynamic Modeling Society)
British Model Airspace
Challenge
This year British Aerospace have formed
a partnership with the British Model Flying
Association in running an inter school and
youth group contest, called the British
Model Airspace Challenge. The contest is
open to two age groups, up to 11 and over
11 and up to 14. Area finals of the contest
were run in the 13 BMFA geographical
areas with a grand final taking place at the
International Model Show held at
Olympia, London on 2nd January 1999.
Six junior and eleven senior teams took part
in the final. The winners were Sherwood
Junior School, Warsop, in the under 11
category and Wavell School, Farnborough,
in the over 11 category. There were over
500 inquiries about the event, who all
received an information pack that included
three model kits. Although the actual
numbers competing in the Challenge was
small this year, more have indicated that
they will compete in the event next year.
We hope that the partnership will continue
for a number of years.
Modellers Camp
This year the Csepel Association of
Modellers, Hungary, will host the 6th
“Modellers Camp” at Kunszentmiklós,
Hungary. The camp starts on the 3rd July
1999 until 11th July and is open to
youngsters between the ages of 10 to 15. It
looks like a great event with lots of
modelling
and
other
activities.
Participation of foreign youngsters would
be most welcome. For more information
please contact:Juhàsz Ferenc, Budapest Damjanich J.
str. 131, Hungary 1213. Tel: 36-1-4202810 or
Nagy Làszló, Budapest Petz F. str. 26
V/52, Hungary 1213. Tel: 36-1-277-9936
or email: [email protected]
Australian model education
program team up with
museums
In Australia, the committee planing the
Australian Aviation Museum are planning
to have a special room set aside for the
purpose of running the MAAA model
education program. The Power House
Museum, also in Sydney, is thinking of
setting up a similar program in the future
when the new museum buildings are built.
Valerie Vickers the Chairman MAAA
Education writes:- “I can only suggest to
others around the world to contact the
museum executive and present their
education programs and if accepted it will
be a major breakthrough”. The MAAA
Education Program is fully described in the
CIAM Education Resources File
And finally
Junior Section Winners, Clayton High
School, Newcastle under Lyme.
If you have any Model Aviation
Education events that you want to tell the
World about please contact Mike Colling
at the above address or email:
[email protected] and I will try and
get it in to the next edition of CIAM Flyer.
Till next time.
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T
he Championships were held in
the small town of Slanic in the East
Transylvanian Alps about 104
kilometers north of Bucharest, Romania.
The last time I visited Slanic was in 1982,
as a team supporter, and I was interested to
see how life had changed there in the
intervening years. F1D models are Free
Flight duration models that are rubber
powered, must not have a wingspan of
more than 60cm and must weigh over
1gram. They require a large room in which
to fly, that is free from drafts. As you can
well imagine these models are extremely
delicate. The site of this years world
championships is probably the most
unusual in the world; a 120meter by
32.5meter by 64meter high cavern carved
out of solid rock salt. Convicts who served
life sentences without parole and who may
never have seen daylight again cut out the
last level in 1940. This cavern is about 122
meters from the surface and is reached by a
lift cage dropping down a lift shaft a little
bigger than the cage. It is extremely dark
and as the lift drops down it bangs on the
side of the shaft - do not go if you have
claustrophobic tendencies.
In the cavern there are lights about
3 meters below the ceiling and also
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strip lights about
3 meters from
the
floor.
U n f o r t u n a t e l y,
there were no
permanent lights
inbetween and so
hand held lamps
had to be used to
follow the models,
never the less it was
quite easy to lose
the models as they
climbed upwards.
Some times models
would be lost for 5
minutes. As team
manager for the
United Kingdom team I had to ensure that
all arrangements were made to get the team
and its models to Slanic safe and sound. I
negotiated flights to Bucharest direct with
TAROM the Romanian State airline and as
all our teams models used no bracing wires
it meant that all the model boxes were of a
size to travel as hand luggage with the
team. This meant that all the teams’
models arrived at Slanic safe and sound
with no damage.
The team arrived at Bucharest Airport
at 6.00 in the evening and by the time we
set off for Slanic it was quite dark. I was
quite surprised at the total lack of
streetlights once we drove out of the towns.
Driving an unfamiliar car with the steering
wheel on the wrong side and the car on the
wrong side of the road, made for an
interesting journey with the added
excitement of meeting up with horse
drawn carts piled high with wood that
showed no lights whatsoever. We arrived at
Hotel Slanic a little late after getting lost
once or twice. We were made most
welcome and were shown in to the dining
room where a much needed supper was
waiting for us.
The usual format for an F1D
competition was followed. After a day of
practise there followed six rounds, one
flight per contestant per round, the highest
two flights to count as the contestant’s final
score. The teams score is the summation of
by Mike Colling
Photo: Sandy Pimenoff
1998 Indoor World
Championships F1D
the team members’ final score. Unlike
outdoor free flight there are no maxis or
fly-offs to decide the winner. Getting the
best from an indoor model takes hours of
trimming to get the model to fly at its best.
This consists of selecting the best possible
rubber to make up a motor of the correct
cross-section and length to match the
chosen propeller fitted to the model. It is
then a matter of winding the motor up to
the maximum number of turns that it will
stand before hooking the motor up to the
model and launching the model in the
correct place in the room to give it the best
chance of flying to its best potential
without touching the walls of the room.
Flyers who regularly fly models in a
particular room have a distinct advantage
over the rest of the contestants as they
know the best places to launch and how
the models are affected in that room by air
movements.
The models can be steered away from
walls and other obstructions with the use
of a long fishing pole or a line supported by
a helium filled balloon. This operation is
not easy to do in the half light of a salt
mine when the model is 60 meters above
your head.
Practise day for the UK team went well
with all three flyers successfully preparing
models to their personal satisfaction for the
contest to come. During practise it is
common to use shorter motors of half or a
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Photo: Derek Richards
At the award ceremony. Seniors (L to R) Andras Ree (Hungary) 2nd and longest flight award,
Steve Brown (USA) 1st, Jim Richmond (USA) 3rd.
score of 70:14. Cristian
Romonti, Romania was
third with a final score of
58:55. The final junior
team standings was
Romania first, Lithuania
second with Ukraine
third.
A European open
event was run on the day
after
the
World
championships, this gave
some of the organizers,
team managers and
supporters the chance to
fly in the mine. As far as
the UK team was
concerned four days in
the dark was enough at
any one time and we
took the alternative offer
of a short sight seeing At the award ceremony. Juniors (L to R) Jakub Filek (Poland) 2nd,
Tatiana Moskalieva (Ukraine) 1st, Cristian Romonti (Romania) 3rd.
tour. In the evening the
banquet and awards
presentation was a grand affair with good brighter place than what it was on my last
food and wine, short speeches and good visit and I hope that it will not be another
presentation of trophies and medals. All in 16 years before I return.
all a very successful event.
I felt that Romania was a happier
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Photo: Derek Richards
third or even a quarter of the full motors
length, to be used, to make short flights for
trimming. To simulate a full motor a spacer
is used between the short motor and the
rear hook to take up the length difference.
This spacer also carries ballast to simulate a
full motor’s weight.
The contest at Slanic consisted of three
days, two rounds on each day. There were
twenty-seven senior competitors from
eleven countries and ten junior
competitors from six countries. The UK
teams aim was to put in two good solid
flights each on the first day hope to
improve on the second and go for broke on
the last day. The models in the salt mine
did not seem to drift about as much as I
remembered from sixteen years previously
and the walls of the cavern did not appear
to be as damp but it was as cold as I
remembered. The temperature staying
constant at 12°C. gets to your bones after
10 hours in the mine. After day one Steve
Brown, USA and the defending senior
world champion were leading with a 43:52
and 40:45 with Andras Ree, Hungary, the
current European champion, second with a
43:40 and 40:37. Senior team standing was
Romania, UK, Hungary, in that order. In
the junior contest Poland’s Jakub Filek was
leading with a 34:35 and 25:50 with Nick
Leonard Jr. of the USA with a 27:35 and
25:20. There were only two full junior
teams and Romania was leading Lithuania
at the end of the first day.
At the end of day two there was no
change to the names at the top of the
senior individual results but the total scores
had improved. Senior team standing was
Hungary, USA, and UK, With Romania
dropping too fourth place. Poland’s Jakub
Filek improved his lead but Nick Leonard
Jr. had dropped too fourth place being
replaced by the only girl in the contest
Tatiana Moskalieva of the Ukraine.
The third and last day started with all to
play for. Steve Brown finished first with a
total score of 89:15. Andras Ree was
second with a total of 88:53. Third was Jim
Richmond, USA who had a final score of
87:28. Senior team positions did not
change from day two but the gap between
USA and the UK had reduced from over
25minutes to under one and a half
minutes. In the junior contest Tatiana
Moskalieva put in two magnificent flights
of 35:59 and 38:09, to make a finishing
score of 74:08 minutes. Jakub Filek had to
be satisfied with second place with a final
1998 F3C European
Championship
by Horace Hagen - President FAI Jury
T
he overall organization of the 7th
FAI F3C R/C Helicopter
European Championship was
handled by Dr. Georg Breiner the
president of the Austrian aeroclub’s
aeromodeling department. The contest
director was Manfred Dittmayer and he
enlisted the help of modelers from several
clubs in the Vienna area to run the
competition. Upon arrival, most of us
were anxious to look at the flying site
located directly in front of the grandstands
of the Freudenau Thoroughbred
Racetrack. The racetrack offered many
advantages that our category seldom
experiences. The track is located within
the city limits of Vienna and quite near the
headquarters hotel.
It contains a
wonderful grandstand, observation tower,
restaurant, public address system, multiple
television monitors and rooms for the
computer scoring system and transmitter
impound. The contest area was laid out on
the grass track facing slightly northeast
which permitted its use from 10:00 hours
to minimize the effects of the sun. The
helipad initially consisted of soft carpet but
this was later removed in favor of the short
grass.
The headquarters for the contest
officials, FAI Judges, FAI Jury and most of
the contestants was the four-star Holiday
Inn Crown Plaza Hotel located within a
few minutes of the flying site. Forty
contestants from 16 countries were
registered prior to the competition.
Contestant registration and model
processing took place on Saturday 15
August in the hotel. Every competitor and
team manager received a tote bag
containing many competition souvenirs.
For the first time ever, the organizer
provided a full-colour competition
program. The pictures of the team
members and managers were displayed on
a national flag background.
Sunday was set aside for the official
practice day. A zero round was flown to
allow the organizer to measure the
duration of a complete round. The zero
round was completed at 17:30 hours. The
opening ceremony took place between
18:00 and 19:00 hours after the Austrian
Army military band marched onto the
field. Dr. Georg Breiner, the Austrian
CIAM Delegate and other government
officials of the city of Vienna announced
the official start of the competition. An air
show consisting of a fly by of two full-size
aerobatic aircraft, the landing of a military
and civilian helicopter and two parasail
equipped skydivers delivering the Austrian
and FAI flags while landing right in front
of the grandstands.
A demonstration flight for the FAI
judges took place at 09:30 hours before the
start of the first round on Monday. The
first round of competition started at 10:00
hours. Everyone was anxious to see which
pilot had improved the most since the
1997 World Championship (WC) in
Turkey. After each flight the scores were
Panoramic view of the flying site from the third floor of the observation tower.
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quickly shown on television monitors and
copies of the scores were given to each
pilot. At the end of the first round, young
Mark Christy of Great Britain was in first
place. Mark was the only junior pilot to
get into the finals at the 1997 WC in
Turkey. His piloting skills had certainly
improved a lot since then. He was
followed by Ruediger Feil, a newcomer
from Germany, Patrick Kessler of
Switzerland, the defending European
Champion Joerg Roessner from Germany
and Efraim Kastiel of Israel. The first
elimination round ended at approximately
17:30 hours.
The second elimination round on
Tuesday followed the same time schedule
and after the dust settled there was a
change in the top five places. Roessner
won this round but Christy was still listed
in first place because the organizer chose to
count all scores and his round two score
was higher than Roessner’s round one
score. It should be pointed out here that
there is more than one way to list the scores
after the second round. At several
European and World Championships we
have ranked the pilots after the second
elimination round by dropping the lower
score. This was done because the FAI
Sporting Code defines what to do if a
contest is interrupted for any reason.
There is no difference in the outcome if the
contest is not interrupted. However, some
pilots feel it would result in less
disappointment if there were a contest
interruption. Christy was followed by
Kessler, Roessner, Feil and Hoenle of
Germany. The third elimination round
took place on Wednesday and was also won
by Roessner but Christy still held first
place. The top five places were held by
Christy, Roessner, Kessler, Feil and Hoenle.
The fourth and final elimination round
was run on Thursday. This round was won
by Feil and resulted in the following top
ten pilots: 1. Roessner (GER), 2. Christy
(GBR), 3. Feil (GER), 4. Kessler (SUI), 5.
Hoenle (GER), 6. Graber (SUI), 7. Kastiel
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Dr. Georg Breiner (waving) and Manfred Dittmayer with their support staff behind them.
(ISR), 8. Johansson (SWE), 9. Livi (ITA)
and 10. Schornsteiner (AUT). These ten
pilots earned the privilege of flying in the
three fly-off rounds on Friday. After the
final elimination round the lowest score
was dropped and the remaining three
scores for each team member were
summed. These sums were then added to
determine the team standings. The top
five teams were: 1. Germany, 2.
Switzerland, 3. Great Britain, 4. Italy and
5. Denmark.
Friday was dedicated to the three fly-off
rounds. Everyone was amazed to see the
newcomer Ruediger Feil from Germany
win each of the three fly-off rounds. This
gave him the perfect score of 3000 points.
What is even more amazing is that he flew
a helicopter with a fuselage and he utilized
fuel with no nitromethane. The final
individual ranking was: 1. Feil, 2. Christy,
3. Roessner, 4. Kessler, 5. Hoenle, 6.
Johansson, 7. Graber, 8. Livi, 9.
Schornsteiner and 10. Kastiel. This
contest marked only the second time that
the new 1997 rules were used. The flying
standard observed during the entire contest
was noticeably higher than at the 1997
World Championships in Turkey. The
individual winner was not determined
until the very last round.
An informal award ceremony was held
at the flying field where the individual and
team awards were given. The daytime
photographs of the winners and their
awards were taken primarily by the
magazine reporters but were also important
for the other news media. After the photo
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session the medals and certificates were
returned to the organizer. They were to be
used again at a formal award ceremony
during the closing banquet.
The entire group of contest participants
was transported via two minibuses and
three large buses to the City Hall of
Vienna. To everyone’s surprise this convoy
was escorted by the city police. The
closing banquet began at 19:00 hours on
Friday in the magnificent “Hall of
Knights”. Gold, silver and bronze medals
sponsored by the Austrian Aeroclub were
awarded to the team and individual
winners. In addition, the winners were
awarded exquisite trophies sponsored by
the organizers. The FAI Judges and
members of the Jury received souvenir
plaques and medals. Every pilot and team
manager received a certificate of
participation from the organizer.
Approximately 220 persons attended the
banquet. The banquet included live
entertainment in the form of a music
The winning teams in front of the Freudenau “Kaiser Loge”. First row left: Second place
Switzerland - D. Graber, P. Kessler, S. Mayer. First row right: Third place Great Britain L. Elborn, M. Christy, M. Tilbury. Second row: Swiss Team Manager R. Hug and first place
Germany - R. Feil, J. Roessner, J. Hoenle and British Team Manager R. Dawson
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ensemble playing Viennese music, a folk
dance team and two opera stars. The
dinner consisting of traditional Viennese
food was enjoyed by everyone.
Some personal observations made at the
competition: I hope that Feil’s and
Roessner’s performances encourage other
pilots to return to helicopters carrying a
full fuselage. I overheard many spectators
asking: “Why do so many models look like
broomsticks?” I also hope that the use of
fuel containing 30 percent nitromethane
will decline because the winning model
used zero percent nitromethane. During
one round the smoke generated by one of
the models (using 30 percent
nitromethane) was so intense that the FAI
judges complained and the next pilot
requested a pause to allow the smoke to
clear. We saw the second youngest pilot
ever to attend a European Championship
in 14 year old Elad Hayun from Israel. It
appeared that not all countries fly the “B”
manoeuvre schedule in national or local
competitions. The event was the first (but
hopefully not the last) to be blessed by the
close cooperation of a Capitol City / State
government, the owner of a thoroughbred
racetrack and the national aeroclub.
Because the competition was held at a
racetrack, full use was made of the
numerous TV monitors to relay the flight
scores. The event received the most
significant television and radio coverage to
date. The third floor of the observation
tower of the main grandstand provided a
fantastic view of the flying site and
especially the aerobatic manoeuvres. The
use of the magnificent “Hall of Knights” in
the city hall for the official reception and
closing banquet made the event very
special and one that will long be
remembered. The Holiday Inn Hotel
provided the best breakfast and dinner
buffets that we have experienced. The hotmenu Lunch served in the restaurant of the
Freudenau racetrack was also very much
appreciated. The tall trees about 150
meters to the north of the helipad (which
gave us some initial concern) did not create
a problem for the pilots. We were very
fortunate with the weather because it was
sunny, hot and humid with little or no
wind for almost the entire contest. To
really punctuate our luck, it started to rain
half an hour after the end of the
competition!
As president of the FAI Jury and
Chairman
of
the
CIAM
F3C
Subcommittee, I would like to thank the
FAI judges: Lucio Della Toffola (ITA),
Tobias Schulz (GER), Frits van Laar
The individual winners: 2. Mark Christy
(GBR), 1. Ruediger Feil (GER) and 3.
Joerg Rossner (GER)
(NED), Jeremy Fox (GBR) and Peter
Ableitinger (AUT) for their very hard
work. My special thanks to Dr. Georg
Breiner, Manfred Dittmayer and the many
other contest officials for a very well run
competition.
Facing the New
Millennium
by Srdjan D. Pelagic, Space Models S/C Chairman
S
pacemodelling matured last year. It
has existed for 40 years, been an ‘airsport’ for 30 years, and has existed for
25 years as a CIAM Subcommittee. In
order to insure we remember important
spacemodelling dates we have established
two observance days - May 28th as
‘Spacemodelling Launching Day’ (in
honour of Dubnicky, May 1966 - the first
official spacemodelling international
competition) and November 21th - as
World Spacemodelling Day (in honour of
the date in 1964 when the first
spacemodelling rules were approved by the
FAI).
World
and
continental
championships have become routine and
many other international and national
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events are happening every weekend from
April till November. We can be satisfied in
a way, but not relaxed - the New
Millenium is in front of us and a question
arises: ‘What kind of spacemodelling do we
want after the year 2001?’.
But first, let us see where we are at the
end of the year 1999?
SPACEMODELLING
IN 1998
Spacemodelling activities in the World
are co-ordinated by the CIAM Space
Models Subcommittee. It consists of 20
members; all from different countries. It
officially convened once on July 16, 1998,
in Suceava (Romania) during the 12th
World Spacemodelling Championships to
consider the following items: analysis of
the
12th
World
Spacemodelling
Championships, promotion of the 1999
European Spacemodelling Championships
report on the current state of World Cup
contests for 1998 and proposals for World
Cup contests for 1999. A presentation was
made of a new method for altitude
measurement of space models developed
by M. Schneider (Germany). A report was
presented by a group of leaders of the
SAPPHIRE spacemodelling development
program and other business. More than 30
people from 18 countries participated in
this meeting.
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During the working period e-mail was
the most frequently used means of
communications because of the low cost
and the facility of immediate contact.
Letters and phone calls were used only
when it
was necessary. Only the
subcommittee chairman sent out and
received more than 300 e-mail messages
from different coutries - from Brazil to
China. He prepared several documents
(circular letters for SC members and
organisers and/or participants in World
Cup contests). They were distributed
during world championships and world
cup contests to interested persons to avoid
high postage costs.
The most important activities in
spacemodelling in 1998 were:
1. 12th
World
Spacemodelling
Championships for seniors and juniors
were held in 7 classes in Suceava
(Romania) attended by about 250
persons from 18 countries from
America, Asia and Europe.
2. There were 10 World Cup contests in 8
countries with 410 contestants (S6A 243, S7 - 58 , S8E - 109).
Winners
for 1998 were: S6A - Antonio
Mazzarachio (Italy), S7 -Arnis Baca
(Latvia),
S8E- Michal Zitnan
(Slovakia). An increase is noticed in the
interest of all classes, particularly S7100% and S8E - 22.8 %. This kind of
competition is the most promising for
popularity of spacemodelling. So, many
thanks to the co-ordinator of this
activitiey, Ing. Marian Jorik from
Slovakia and to his sponsor Mishiak
from Banska Bistrica who makes lovely
cups and medals for the winners. The
areas where the WC contests are
organized expand from Central to
South-East Europe and it seems realistic
to have such contests in America (USA)
and Asia (China and/or Japan) by the
year 2000.
3. There were two world records set in S4E
(Boost glider duration 20-40 Ns) Leszek Pienkowski (Poland) - 4mn 21 s
and S9A (Gyrocopter duration 0 - 2.5
Ns) - Radojica katanic (Yugoslavia) 3
mn 23 s.
4. The greatest practical problem was
altitude measurement, because of a very
low percentage of tracked models in
World SM Championships in S1B and
S5B in Romania (less than 20 %). It is
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necessary to approve the new measuring
method S1X (with at least 3 tracking
stations) developed and tested in
Germany as soon as possible.
5. In order to collect relevant data on
spacemodelling in the world several
subcommittee members submitted
materials on spacemodelling in their
countries to their SM SC Chairmen.
The most impressive was a contribution
by Mr M. Jamada (Japan), who
sent comprehensive documentation
weighing more than one kilogram with
many photographs and data!
WHAT DO WE PROPOSE
FOR FUTURE?
The SAPPHIRE Spacemodelling
Developing Program is still the most
comprehensive activity for the future. It is
organized in three Working groups: WG 1
- Rule changess and Education ( group
leader: Ing. Srdjan Pelagic, YUG), WG 2Aerodynamics, Balistics and Ground
Facilities (group leader; Dr Gerald
Gregorek, USA) and WG 3 - Model
Rocket Engines (group leader: Ing. Milan
Jelinek, SVK). The achivements of the
Working Groups are:
WG 1- A number of proposals were
collected by group members and NACs
who prepared a lot of new proposals for the
CIAM Plenary meeting: such as, the
definition of an unsuccesful attempt
(Poland), international ranking of
spacemodellers (algorithm and the rules), a
new class, preferably good for juniors a
triathlon
tournament
(by
Dr Ing.A.Mazzaracchio, Italy). The latest
proposal is especially interesting: all
competitors would be divided in groups of
three and they would launch their models
simultaneously; only the best enter the
next round. Additional proposals were: all
three rounds would be flown with the same
model - first as class S9A (gyrocopter), the
second as S6A (streamer) and the third as
S3A (parachute). Ing. M. Schneider
developed a new method for multi-station
altitude tracking (MHD) and developed all
necessary support softwear. This method
was discussed with Dr B.Kreutz from the
USA and this year it will be tested at the
European SM Championships and in
Yugoslavia at the same time as the old
method. Ing. S. Pelagic (YUG) is
preparing a computerised comparative
spacemodelling dictionary in several
languages. S. Lodge (UK) made a booklet
with a comprehensive analysis of good and
bad things in spacemodelling, and some
other judges and modellers like L. Ficiu
(ROM) and V. Minakov (RUS) gave their
contributions.
WG2 - Dr Gerald Gregorek (USA)
reported he was conducting some
aerodynamical investigations with S9A and
the first report is expected by the CIAM
Plenary meeting in Lausanne.
WG3 - Ing Milan Jelinek (SVK) reports
that the atlas of official model rocket
engines has been prepared in draft, and
completion of it will be made soon.
All these proposals are only preparations
for the full revision of the Sporting Code Part 4d. The essential idea is: space models
must be bigger, more attractive and
competitions much more dynamic.
SPACEMODELLING
AFTER THE YEAR 2001
Spacemodelling is in a state of
permanent change so how it will look after
2001?
Competitions: World Championships
for 2000 were awarded to Slovakia and
Yugoslavia and China are competing for
the 2002 bid. Offers for 2004, 2006 and
2008
are
invited.
European
Championships for 2001 will be discussed
at the 2nd WAG in Spain. Offers for 2003,
2005 and 2007 are invited. SM SC is
discussing with the NACs of USA,
Canada, China and Japan to start
continental Championships from the year
2001. World Cup Contests are constantly
developing and we expect to get them in
Asia and America after the year 2000.
Education: Summer schools will be the
most attractive way of education - seven
days of building models in the morning
and swimming in the afternoon. Also most
of the information will be distributed
through the INTERNET by e-mail and
this kind of communication will prevail.
Also most of technical documentation will
be on magnetic media.
This is just a short review of what we
have and what we want in spacemodelling.
All your ideas and information about your
work should be sent to the Space Models
S/C chairman to e-mail: spelagic@
Eunet.yu. You will be included in the
SAPPHIRE program for sure.
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1998 World Junior Free Flight
by Martin Dilly
Championships
S
eventeen nations sent teams of
under-18s to the historic city of
Sibiu, about 200 km. north-west of
Bucharest, Romania, in August to compete
in F1A (glider), F1B (Wakefield) and F1J
(engine-assisted glider) at the World Junior
Free-Flight
Championships.
The
Carpathian Mountains formed a dramatic
backdrop to the airfield, and at times
during the competition thunder rumbled
ominously, with flashes of lightning in the
distant mountains against a dark sky to
give an image the enthusiastic young flyers
will long remember.
The first part of the Championships was
for F1J, - engine assisted gliders with a
maximum 1 cm3 B3 engine size. Till these
Championships the Juniors flew F1C
aircraft, and these were obviously too
much for most to handle. Although it is far
from the case that smaller aircraft are
necessarily better for young flyers, in this
case both the flyers and those near them
were far happier with the event. Though
not powered with 2.5 cm=B3 engines,
many of the competitors flew what were, in
effect, small F1Cs, with engine brakes,
folding carbon props, bunt transition, full
carbon structure and dural/carbon/dural
booms. The structural stiffness made for
far less frustration for the flyers, as it does
for the larger classes, but the technology
also inevitably means that a lot of adult
help may be required with the building. To
some of the traditionalists in free-flight this
still seems to be a big point of discussion.
However, we must all face the fact that
young people are the life blood of our
sport, and for many of them the counterattractions of other heavily-promoted
activities, for example wind-surfing, hanggliding and mountain biking, mean that
the initial hurdle of having to make the
sports equipment for model flying may
simply result in them taking their latent
enthusiasm elsewhere.
The air was tricky, with long dead
patches, but at times several storks were
thermalling overhead and the US teams
bullrush-head fluffies were drifting slowly
upwards. Youngest flyer was Ukraines tenyear old Ruslan Strukhov, son of Velerij,
who has flown on numerous F1C World
Championship teams; his competent
handling of his aircraft must have been the
result of much practice, and he was
unfortunate to drop a single flight to
finally place twelfth. His aircraft was
David Ellis used high-visibility lightweight Dacron sailcloth covering for his F1A.
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1998 World Junior F1J champion Egor
Kanakin of Russia spiralled in after a poor
bunt on Round 1 and maxed on the re-flight.
powered by a piped Samokish-designed
Aviant that turned at 34,000 r.p.m., with
clappers closing off both the intake and the
end of the tuned pipe at cut-off. Other
people used Ukrainian KSs and the
Russian Rex.
While some flyers used fairly extreme
aircraft, the top-placers were more
conservative, with medium aspect ratios
and moment arms. However the two US
flyers, Justin Aronhalt and Austin Gunder,
each flew a modified Maverick, originally a
kit design, with lowish aspect ratio, round
tips and no moving surfaces, powered by
stock Norvel engines, without brakes. Like
Strukov, they both dropped a single flight
and missed the ten-way fly-off. When
Aronhalt opened his box in Romania he
found he had left his tailplanes at home;
his parents faxed him the plans and he
built two replacements with enough time
to re-trim his models before F1J day.
The standard in F1B was high; the early
part of the day was hot and dry, and some
models that were check-weighed at 8 a.m.
had lost 5 grams by midday. The Yugoslav
team had the benefit both of a rented
trainer and model trimmer, and also flew
bought aircraft with which he was clearly
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RESULTS
F1A
1. Philippe Drapeau France
2. Mikko Sivonen Finland
3. Brigitte Truppe Austria
Poland’s Mariusz Bronski’s F1J used a
Faismatov motor with the timer operating
both an engine brake and an intake clapper,
as well as auto-rudder, v.i.t. and D/T.
1290 + 286
1290 + 237
1290 + 229
TEAM
1. Slovakia
2. Russia
3. Czech Republic
3844
3759
3729
F1B
1. Aleksander Marjanovic
Yugoslavia
1290 + 300 + 314
2. Alexander Grushichev
Russia
+ 209
3. Pavel Geraskin
+ 123
The 1998 US Junior team shirt.
familiar. All they really had to do was to
launch when told to, and at times it looked
as if their hearts were not in it, though the
strident voice of their assistant team
manager intruded throught the three days
of the contest urging them on.
Unfortunately two of them used models
with either wrong or missing FAI licence
numbering and were disqualified as a
result. In the stillish air of round 1 some
teams launched and then immediately
flapped with the aim of triggering enough
lift to make the 3:30 max. Some of the
smaller flyers made manful efforts in
winding their motors, in some cases almost
dwarfed by the winders they used. Four
1998 World Junior F1J champion Egor
Kanakhin of Russia.
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TEAM
1. Russia
2. Poland
3. Ukraine
3857
3735
3707
Austria’s Doris Ehrlich used an audio beeper
taped to the top of her F1A fuselage,
reached the fly-off.
All seventeen nations competed in F1A,
with a slight mist shrouding the distant
mountains. Full-carbon structures and
bunt launches were in the majority and
Superba gliders, produced by W Hobbies
in Lithuania, were used by several flyers;
three girls, two from Austria and one from
the Netherlands, were among the flyers.
For the United States ten-year old Peter
Barron showed the advantages of being
young and fit in round 4, with a very
competent downwind tow into a good
patch of air, launching with no circle
towing and no zoom, but reaching about
double towline height in a minute.
The Slovak team, dropping only a single
flight, won the team event, and Austrias
Brigitte Truppe, using a Makarov
model was a much-applauded (and
photographed) third placer. 1998 World
F1A Champion Philippe Drapeau of
France is fourteen, and started flying at age
seven; he flew a bunter very competently,
and, instead of using a timer disc extension
arm to set the delay to the first bunt, he
simply set it by eye.
Mikhail Zanciu and the Romanian
Modelling Federation were responsible for
the smooth organisation, and contest
director George Arghir handled the few
problems well during the event.
F1J
1. Egor Kanakhin
2. Alexei Bogach
3. Sergi Deshevoi
Russia
600 + 180 + 240 + 255
Ukraine
+ 248
Russia
+ 233
TEAM
1. Russia
2. Poland
3. Ukraine
1800 (1st + 3rd +6th)
1800 (7th + 8th + 9th)
1754
Determined F1B launch by Filip
Augustinowicz of Poland.
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1998 Asian Championships
For classes F1A-F1B-F1C and F3B,
Tashkent - Uzbekistan.
by Pierre Chaussebourg
U
zbekistan is situated between the
Caspian Sea and Kirghiszstan,
with Kazastan to the North and
the ‘Silk Road’ with the very beautiful city
of Samarkand. Nowadays, the best known
city in this area is probably the Spa base of
Bhikonour in Kazakstan. Tashkent, capital
of Uzbekistan is a big city with a
University, theatre, international airport
and heavy industries.
There is a military airfield thirty
kilometres south of Tashkent, used for
training in the time of the USSR. About
ten Yak 52’s and the same number of
Antonov 2’s are parked in a line waiting for
‘death under the sun’.
The airfield did not seem to be very big,
but in fact it is a large area covered in short
grass, with no defined runaway, as most of
airfields were in the old days; the best place
for Free Flight. This field is in the middle
of a farming area, bordered on one side by
a little canal. Behind this canal, in the
shade of high trees, a little village of
bungalows originally built for soldiers is
now used by aeromodellers while
practicing or competing. Only one thing
was missing; a clean building for toilets
and showers.
With these necessary
improvements, which should be easy to
construct at low cost, Aranchy airfield will
be a little paradise for aeromodellers.
Unfortunately,
the
Asian
Championships, had few competitors.
Neighbouring Kazkstan, plus Indonesia,
whose members were working at the
Indonesian embassy in Tashkent. Armenia
is normally a member of the FAI European
region, asked to be counted as an Asian
country and thus were able to participate.
It is a pity that famous Free Flight
countries such as the Republic of Korea,
China and Japan did not participate.
Kirghistan and Mongolia have also good
Free Flight competitors, but are not at the
moment members of FAI.
The competition had been well
prepared by Gaivat Kalanov and his team.
In order to have more comptetiors on the
field, a Cup of Independence was also run
at the same time with club teams and
international teams competing all together.
For F3B, there was only one competitor for
each country.
Winners, Team managers, organisers and Jury members at 1998 Asian Championship.
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The Opening Ceremony took place on
August 26, and was very formal, with
many military officials from Tashkent.
Local music, speeches, team presentations,
the FAI jury, flags, and the playing of
various anthems were well presented. The
ceremony was followed by an open air
banquet.
The next morning competitions began
with F1A. Thermals were difficult to find
due to a very high Temperature (over
40°C), dry air, and a minimum wind.
Towing a glider was very difficult in these
conditions. Three competitors reached the
fly-off, which was held in the evening after
the end of the F3B tasks. The winner was
a member of Kazakstan, followed by the
local champion and an Armenian who was
third.
F1B was run on the 28th. Some models
were very good, as we are used to seeing at
World Cup contests. Most, however, were
traditional, built of wood and tissue. The
quality of the rubber made the difference.
Some modellers had nothing else to use
other than the old, very thin, Chinese
rubber, with millions of knots.
F1C was run on the Saturday. There
were very few good models, with not very
good engines, which resulted in a very low
level in the climbs, particularly with a 5
second engine run. Some young fellows
were even using diesel engines, which
could take the models between 10 and 20
metres.
I am sure that a good competition
between European and Asian modellers
would be positive for the future of Free
Flight in these countries. Many unused
Rossi 15 and Seelig timers, non selected
rubber, and even sometimes balsa wood,
could be very useful....
There was good club organization, with
machine tools, unfortunately, bad engines,
and no rubber is available in the market.
Last year, Uzbekistan was participating
in Free Flight at the World Air Games in
Turkey. They wish to participate in the
World Champs in Israel, and probably,
good individual contacts between
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competitors could be very positive and
helpful for the future of Free Flight in
Central Asia.
The F3B contest was not so difficult to
control. Winches were not used as all
models were hand towed as in F3J and
there were actually more officials than
competitors.
Pierre Chaussebourg, 1st CIAM V.P. dressed
with national clothes, with Uzbeckistan
team and future Armenian organiser.
The closing ceremony was quite
impressive, on the same level as the
opening. Many trophies, and presents
were given to the competitors and officials.
The FAI officers and jury members.
Thomas
Bartovsky
and
Pierre
Chasuserborg were treated as local
dignitaries with national Uzebek dress.
Gairat Kalanov and his daughter
Nargiza must be thanked and
congratulated for having organized this
Asian Championship. It has not been easy
as it was their first time at running a major
event, but they did very well, and without
them, and the club of Tashkent, it would
not have been possible.
Armenia is already a candidate to run
the next event in the year 2000. I wish
them the best success for this competition
and hope it will continue in the future for
the benefit of our sport.
Gairat Kalanov, organiser, and his daughter
Nargiza, interpreter and Jury member
1998 European Slope Soaring
Glider Championship
Class F1E for Seniors and Juniors
by Pierre Chaussebourg
F
1E (FF Slope Soaring) class is well
known in central Europe and Great
Britain, but completely ignored by
many other countries.
The aim of the competition is to fly Free
Flight gliders for duration flights over
slopes against the wind. To keep a correct
heading in front of the wind the gliders,
which are hand launched are steered by an
automatic pilot. This consists of a fixed
British Team preparing for an official flight.
Detail of an “Automatic Pilot” for F1E glider.
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March ’99
front fin - north direction wherever the
glider heading is. The mobile rudder is
connected to a magnet in order to stay in
line with the fixed fin when the fuselage is
oriented to the direction selected by the
competitor to take the more useful benefit
of the wind hitting the slope.
A competitor must score one flight in
each of the five rounds of the competition.
The maximum duration of each flight, as
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Bernhard Schüssler, Germany, at launch.
well as the duration of each round are
defined by the Contest Director before the
beginning of each round. Competitions are
usually flown on slopes or hills in
mountainous areas, but also on small hills.
The 1998 European Championship was
flown in Muszina, which is a very nice
resort in the Tatras mountains in the south
of Poland. The organization was very
good, as is usual in Poland, but
unfortunately, the weather was very wet. It
had been raining everyday, except on the
contest day. Forty four competitors from
ten countries were competing, including
fourteen juniors from six countries.
The opening ceremony, which was
scheduled on the market square of the
village had to take place inside a small
theatre because of heavy rain. The
possibility of practice was very small due to
the continuing inclement weather. On
competition day the flying conditions were
not the very best, but it was possible to fly
Gringu Popa, Romania, coaching Pierre
Chaussebourg, France, for his first attempt
at F1E.
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Daniel Petcu, Romania.
the five rounds.
Only one contestant made the five
required movements, so we did not need a
fly-off. The winners were Miroslv Polonek,
SVK, junior , Vojtech, Zima, CZE, Senior.
Slovakia took the Junior trophy, beating
Romania, second, and Poland, third. In
the Senior category the Czech Republic
was the winner with Romania second and
Germany third.
The Championship event was followed
by a World Cup Contest. The weather was
slightly better.
Unfortunately, some
mistakes were made in the timekeeping
due to poor visibility.
The final ceremony was followed by a
nice banquet where FAI Jury members
were made “Mountaineers” in the best
traditions of mountaineering countries.
This was celebrated in a very warm
atmosphere.
This
year,
the
F1E
World
Championships are held in the same
mountains, but on the Slovakian side. We
wish the best success for the world champs,
and a hope for better weather if possible.
CIAM FLYER
March ’99
Jubilee 20th Ljubljana Cup
Spacemodeling competition
with the longest tradition
by Joze Cuden
Photos: Stuart Lodge, Anton Sijanec and Joze Cuden
in FAI
I
n October, the Slovenian Astronautical
rocketry club, Komarov from
Ljubljana, will celebrate its 30th
anniversary this year. It will have
completed another two decades since the
spacemodelling competition Ljubljana
Cup was first organised. The continued
efforts and enthusiasm of its members has
been necessary every autumn to achieve
such a remarkable jubilee. Once a federal
competition, the Ljubljana Cup grew up to
become one of the most distinguished
international events, which undoubtedly
has the longest tradition in the FAI.
It was the last and consequently the
final world cup event in a long 1998
contest season. For the last three years it
took place at a well known airfield near the
town of Kamnik, where the 11th World
Spacemodeling Championship was held in
1996. It proved to be one of the most
appropriate open places in the area with
excellent thermal conditions for model
flying events, enabling superb sporting
achievements, as seen at the WSMC.
More than 50 competitors from nine
countries
entered
six
categories.
Spacemodelers from Croatia, Italy,
Yugoslavia, Latvia, Poland, Slovakia,
Switzerland, Great Britain and Slovenia
took part in the competition.
As usual, the competition started with
the parachute duration class (S3A). In this
classical category, which is only run at a
few contests, one should reach maximum
scores in all three flights. When competing
with the masters of this class, every failure
means no place on the top. Six competitors
entered the fly-off; Croat Jozo Ivancic,
Slovak Michal Zitnan, Yugoslav Zoran
Katanic, Latvian Arturs Straus and also two
local modelers, namely Andrej Vrbec and
Mitja Muhvic. An exciting final round
ended with the triumph of Muhvic, from
the Model club Kamnik winning the first
“golden dragon” for home modelers. Zoran
Katanic from Sremska Mitrovica got the
silver one, while Ivancic from Zagreb took
the bronze.
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The winner of the S6A (streamer
duration) World Cup category would not
be known till the very last competition.
Twice the winner of the World Cup for the
last two years, Slovenian Igor Stricelj, was
already out of the race. Prior to the last
event, Italian Antonio Mazzarachio
performing well throughout the whole
season held the best position. Could
anyone possibly beat him? Fifth place was
enough for Antonio to win the World Cup.
He fully deserved it. Zoran Katanic was
the leader in the Yugoslav team, while the
other three Yugoslavs sharing the same
score, were classified after additional
flights.
There was a rough race in the S4B
category. Some modelers demonstrated
good form. An experienced Slovak, Michal
Zitnan, was close to the full score. A young
competitor Bartosz Boniecki from Poland
was placed next to him. Egon Engelsberger,
a Slovenian veteran and a master of the
classic concept boost gliders joined the best
ones for third place. A promising youngster
Domen Hluchy from ARK Komarov was
flying surprisingly well and missed the
trophy by only 30 seconds.
The weather forecast for Sunday
promised a change for the worse. The S8E
class was running smoothly until the flyoff. There was a tough duel between two
members of the Slovak team, last season’s
World Cup winner Stefan Mokran, and the
rising talent in this class Michal Zitnan.
Trying to escape the first raindrops, Zitnan
carried out the best flight in the second
additional round and surpassed his
teammate. One cannot overlook the
achievement of the Slovenian competitor
Bogdan Makuc followed by his club
members Bogdan Stempihar and young
Ivan Turk, acting together as the best team
in S8. Bogdan appeared with his newly
designed model with a perfect
aerodynamic construction. Exploiting an
improved piston launcher, his model
reached
tremendous
altitude.
Unfortunately, his sight problem pushed
him to third place.
Scale model flights began in the rain but
it could not impede skilled aces like Arnis
Baca of Latvia or Polish Wojciech
Krzywinski. Their beautifully detailed
Final winner in S6A world cup Antonio
Mazzarachio.
Special diploma was presented to Miha Cuden, the
youngest competitor of the contest. As a member of the
Dexter’s Lab team he placed second in S6A.
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Sojuz and Ariane launchers performed realistic flights and warmed
up the public, who were already shivering from the cold. Baca was
leading after static judging and kept his advantage to become the
World Cup winner in S7 class.
When everybody doubted whether the weather would permit
the flights in S5 class, it suddenly stopped raining and slim altitude
scale models were able to fly up to the clouds. Trackers of the
Slovenian Geodetic Institute did their job without any mistake as
they did at the WSMC and executed
the measurements of all the flights.
This time domestic rocketeers of
Club Komarov were better than the
Polish team, which were the winners
of the previous Ljubljana Cup. All of
them completed excellent two stage
flights. At the end, Joze Cuden
placed first, Andrej Vrbec second and
due to the static points score,
Krzywinski overtook Matevz Dular
by only two points.
At the end of last day, and in spite
of the rain, the participants were full
of praise for the good organisation,
which was the very best of the season
Arnis Baca’s sojuz makes this
in the opinion of the majority.
impressive lift-off.
S7 (World Cup)
Place Name
1. Arnis
2. Wojciech
3. Jerzy
4. Jerzy
5. Bartosz
Surname
Baca
Krzywinski
Boniecki
Kolodziej
Boniecki
S7 - Teams
Place
1.
2.
3.
Team/Club
Poland 1
Latvija
Poland 2
S5B
Place
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Name
Joze
Andrej
Wojciech
Matevz
Bartosz
S5B - Teams
Place
1.
2.
3.
Show
Place Name
1. Stuart
2. Romano
3. Anton
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Surname
Cuden
Vrbec
Krzywinski
Dular
Boniecki
Team/Club
LAT
POL 1
POL 1
POL 2
POL 1
Flight pts. Score
+ 132 903
+ 133 863
+ 73
691
+ 48
641
+ 60
637
Score
2191
903
641
Team/Club
ARK Komarov 1
ARK Komarov 1
Poland
ARK Komarov 1
Poland
Team/Club
ARK Komarov 1
Poland
ARK Komarov 2
Surname
Lodge
Suti
Sijanec
Static pts.
771
730
618
593
577
Static pts.
658
542
646
534
546
Altitude
+ 334
+ 234
+ 97
+ 207
+ 82
Score
992
776
743
741
628
20TH LJUBLJANA CUP RESULTS
S3A
Place
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Name
Mitja
Zoran
Jozo
Michal
Andrej
S3A - Teams
Place
1.
2.
3.
Surname
Muhvic
Katanic
Ivancic
Zitnan
Vrbec
Team/Club
CRO 1
YU
ARK Komarov
S6A (World Cup)
Place Name
Surname
1. Zoran
Katanic
2. Zivan
Josipovic
3. Andrija Ducak
4. Radojica Katanic
5. Antonio Mazzaracchio
S6A - Teams
Place
1.
2.
3.
Team/Club
YU 1
YU 2
Dexter’s Lab
S4B
Place
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Surname
Zitnan
Boniecki
Engelsberger
Hluchy
Katanic
Name
Michal
Bartosz
Egon
Domen
Zoran
S4B - Teams
Place
1.
2.
3.
Team/Club
MK Kamnik
AK SR. Mitrovica YU
ARAK Dubrava-CRO 1
Slovakia
ARK Komarov
Score
2509
1981
0
Team/Club
BSMA UK
CRO
SLO
S8E - Teams
Place
1.
2.
3.
Fly-off
+ 520
+ 515
+ 500
+ 398
+ 390
Score
2100
2006
1762
Team/Club
AK Sr. Mitrovica - YU 1
AK Zemun - YU 2
AK Sr. Mitrovica - YU 1
AK Sr. Mitrovica - YU 1
ITA - ROMA
Score
519
509
509
509
499
Fly-off
168
76
-
Score
1537
1113
1109
Team/Club
Slovakia
POL 1
ARK Komarov
ARK Komarov
AK Sr. Mitrovica - YU 1
Team/Club
Pol 1
CRO 1
YU 1
S8E (World Cup)
Place Name
Surname
1. Michal
Zitnan
2. Stefan
Mokran
3. Bogdan Makuc
4. Ivan
Turk
5. Bogo
Stempihar
Score
900
900
900
900
900
Score
689
546
478
448
446
Score
1357
1067
989
Team/Club
Slovakia
Slovakia
MMK Logatec
MMK Logatec
MMK Logatec
Score
1080
1080
1080
1080
1080
Team/Club
MMK Logatec
Poland
Slovenia
1st Fly-off
+ 480
+ 480
+ 480
+ 480
+ 480
2nd Fly-off
+ 642
+ 538
+ 533
+ 513
+ 448
Score
3240
2369
1701
CIAM FLYER
March ’99
Scale Aerobatics
Getting started, building and flying.
S
cale aerobatics is all about having fun,
flying full size manoeuvres with a
semi scale model of your favourite
aerobatic aircraft
Aircraft can be monoplanes or biplanes,
as large or small (within CAA rules) as you
fancy or whatever is the norm at your club
Cap, Extra, Diablo, Skybolt etc. Plenty of
kits and plans are available from the likes of
Goldberg, Glens, Classic Scale, Aviation
Technics etc, also look in the classified at
the back of magazines.
Engines can be petrol or methanol, two
stroke, four stroke, single or multi cylinder,
and electric. Petrol engines will need a
separate battery pack for the ignition, 3W
use 4.8v same as your Rx pack, and will
required a switch. Ignition timing is taken
care of by an electronic module and a
sensor on the prop driver, which are usually
supplied with the engine. Don't worry
about interference from the ignition
system, as long as the plug cap and lead are
the shielded type, kept tight and in good
condition there is no problem. Tuned pipes
are OK as are dustbin silencers.
The latest computerised radio system is
all very nice, but not always necessary if you
can build a straight model. Some useful
features would be; rates for snap rolls,
mixing of 2 channels to take out nasties like
nose dipping when using rudder, and
correcting barrelling rolls using differential.
(This can be achieved mechanically) Don't
forget the fail safe this is a must, always set
up so as to select slow engine throttle,
especially for a new model. Large single
cylinder engines cause vibration which can
upset your radio, sending your pride and
joy into serious trouble. If fail safe is set to
‘hold’ - the vibrations will continue to
harass the radio, but by selecting slow
throttle, should, enable control to be
regained. It is worth considering soft
mounting engines.
Where extra long extension leads are
required, and to eliminate the possibility of
picking up unwanted signals &
interference, I make my own by cutting off
the plug and socket from each end of a
normal short extension lead leaving approx
2" of wire. Join the two ends with a length
of screened Hi Fi cable, connect signal and
positive to the inner wires and negative to
CIAM FLYER
March ’99
the screen. Solder joints and seal with heat
shrink tube. Keep servo lead coiled near to
servo. I always fit the antenna within a thin
plastic tube inside, and running the length
of the fuselage. This always looks neater
than a wire dangling.
Try to build the model as light as
possible, and position radio, batteries ~
servos to maintain CG without resorting to
ballast.
When purchasing propellers, consider a
three blader. As a smaller diameter can be
used for the same thrust as a 2 blade, but
the tip speed will be reduced and so will the
noise. A carbon fibre 3 blade prop is even
better being lighter but stiffer eliminating
tip flexing .
My Ultimate has soft mounts for the
engine, (3W 70cc twin) 3 blade carbon
prop. Internal tuned pipes, which
dramatically reduces drag, compared to
being slung on the underside out in the
fresh air. Some ducting is required to keep
excess heat away from radio gear. Internal
intake for the carburettor. For fuel I use 95
ron unleaded mixed with Silkolene Comp 2
pre mix semi synthetic oil @ 50:1
Ready to go
Before you rush out to your local model
shop or club field, why not pay a visit to an
IMAC comp, here you will find flyers who,
are also enthusiasts for the scale type of
aerobatic aircraft. The aircraft will be just
like at your club, from small Goldberg
Ultimates to large Wiggens. Bring your
model, you don't have to fly, and you don't
have to be a member to watch, talk and ask
questions. The competitors are layed back,
and are always willing to give advice and
help, both with your model and flying
schedules. You will learn about the "box",
see the schedules flown, and how they are
presented to the judges. There are 3
schedules, one for each league, Sportsman,
Advanced, and Unlimited these remain the
same for three years. Pilots usually start in
Sportsman, but recognition is given to the
ability of FAI aerobatic pilots. When a pilot
achieves 60% of maximum score possible
for a flight, at 2 separate competitions, he
then gains promotion to the next league.
All schedules are "Turnaround", having
manoeuvres at each end designed to turn
by Jon Robinson
the model back and into a centre
manoeuvre, just as full size practice.
At certain comps, in addition to the
standard schedules, an "Unknown"
schedule will be presented on the day, with
no practice allowed. The difficulty "K"
factor will be correct for each league. A
three minute freestyle round, may also be
flown, here the pilot chooses his own
schedule or whatever, smoke and streamers
can be used, as well as music to enhance the
flight. This is always good fun, and is
popular with spectators. Trophies are
awarded from first to third place in each
league. Special trophies are awarded at
major comps such as Woodvale and the
Nats, and for the overall winner at the end
of the season.
IMAC UK hold several competitions
nationally, throughout the year. A regular
newsletter is published, giving competition
results, and the latest information. Aircraft
regulations and general rules are available.
IMAC is popular in America, where it
originated, and until 1997 the same
schedules were flown here. At the IMAC
UK AGM of that year it was decided to use
the European Akro Cup schedules for
Advanced and Unlimited. This was
intended to give those pilots who wished to
participate in competitions on the
continent, the advantage of practising the
same schedules.
The format used is international, and is
used in the "Tournament of Champions"
now held each year in Las Vegas. IMAC has
also caught on in Australia.
The European "Akro Cup" originated in
Germany and is equivalent to IMAC,
Competitions have also been held in France
and Austria. Consideration is being given to
holding a meeting in the UK. Points are
gathered over the year to produce an overall
winner "Grad Prix" style.
IMAC UK Provisional calendar.
14 March, Runcom
11 April, Ashbourne
23 May, Binham
July, Mini Nats, TBC
3/4 August, Woodvale
August, Nationals
26 September, Rhyl
17 October, Ashbourne
October, East Devon
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12th World Spacemodelling
Championship for Seniors
and Juniors by Srdjan D. Pelagic, FAI Jury Chairman
(Salcea-Suceava, Romania, 11th to 18th July, 1998)
S
uceava, Romania? This was a real
puzzle for newcomers, but a real
pleasure for those who were here
during the three previous European
Spacemodelling Championships in 1984,
1986 and 1993. Anyway, it was a real
adventure for many participants from
different parts of the world to aim and hit
the target located several dozen miles from
the Ukrainian border (about 500 km
northwards from Bucarest), almost at the
end of the railroad Bucaresti-Botosani.
Teams came from 18 countries and three
continents ( Europe, Asia and America ).
The most disappointment was for a young
team from Kazakhstan. They travelled five
days to compete in the World Cup contest
only, but when they arrived they were told
that this contest had been cancelled.
Unfortunately, the day for the World Cup
contest had to be used as a reserve day for
World Championships.
The organisers, Federatia Romana de
Winning Soyuz-TM by Alexandr Levych
(RUS) stands at left foreground. The real
Soyuz lofted Britain’s Helen Sharman in
space. Spectators ogle the line of models.
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Modelism
(Romanian
Modelling
Federation) and local city officials and
dignitaries from the county of Suceava did
a great job while preparing these
Championships. They tried very hard to
make them successful. But... many things
were not easygoing. A very pleasant
international meeting of air-sportsman
turned into the most dramatic
spacemodelling event so far. At first this
time the Heavens were merciless. There
were lovely welcoming blue skys on the day
of registration, on the practice and on the
first two competition days. But on the
third competition day there came a
threatening storm with heavy showers and
lightning. It was raining for more than 48
hours and the field was completely soaked
and covered with a few centimeters of
water. Only three out of seven classes were
completed in the first two competition
days and all participants and the organisers
were trembling partly from a low
temperature and half from anxiety for the
prospects of the championships.
Finally, before the scheduled time
expired long distance calls from Romania
to Finland and from Finland to other parts
of the world saved the situation. CIAM
President Mr Sandy Pimenoff helped with
his FAI jury experience and the whole
situation was saved. The day scheduled for
the World Cup contest had to be
rescheduled during a reserve day. Four
classes were completed on that day, some
of them based only on completed rounds
(such as the altitude competition).
Everything was very dramatic, but finally
most of the people were happy, and the
most successful competitors were
decorated with medals.
Now let us go step by step:
hotels Bucovina and Suceava in the center
of Suceava , several hundred meters apart.
Breakfasts and dinners were served at the
hotels and lunch in the field.
Accommodation and food was good.
Transportation to the field and back was by
comfortable buses escorted by traffic police
who assured priority for Championship
participants. The Jury and judges had their
own special cars.
ACCOMODIATION, FOOD AND
TRANSPORTATION
Accomodation was in two two star
FLYING
There were potential conditions for
good flying, but they were somehow
FLYING FIELD & LAUNCHING SITE
Flying field Salcea, a civil airport with a
concrete runway, was wide and flat to
provide good conditions for the
competition. A town of tents was erected
for the championship headquarters,
computer center, restaurant, cafes &
teams’ shelters/working places. A couple of
times the competition schedule had to be
stopped during the landing of airplanes on
domestic routes, but it had little influence
on the competition. The launching site was
divided into five zones (three for seniors
and two for juniors ) with the RSO
deputies for each zone (according to the
rules ), which was a very efficient solution.
MODEL PROCESSING AND ENGINE
TESTING
Models were processed in the field
before the events. Since some procedure
corrections had to be made it was a fairly
good system. The Organisers insured the
competitors that there would be three
engine testers from the Czech Republic
(J.Taborsky & Z.Kolar), Slovenia
(M.Zidaric) and Poland. The first two of
the same type were used to test more than
250 engines precisely and relatively
quickly, but the testing procedure should
be simplified in future.
CIAM FLYER
March ’99
JUNIORS
SENIORS
CLASS S1B: Individuals (33): 1. Halip Gabriel (ROM) 380,
2. Gerdian Milan (YUG) 350 3. Lukasz Nikita (POL) 335.
Teams(11) : 1. Romania 784, 2. Yugoslavia 657, 3. Poland 607.
CLASS S1B: Indivuduals (51): 1. Mensirov Vladimir (RUS) 622,
2.Catargiu Ioan (ROM) 447, 3. Katanic Zoran (YUG) 439.
Teams(18): 1.Poland 1368, 2. Romania 1023, 3. Yugoslavia 743.
CLASS S3A: Individuals (34) : 1. Mateev Aleksei (UKR) 1858,
2. Danielius Donat (LTU) 1620, 3. Rukuts Artis (LAT) 1320.
Teams(12) : 1.Ukraina 2646, 2 . Slovakia 2629 , 3. Latvia 2511.
CLASS S3A: Indiviuals (52) : 1. Krause marian (GER) 1752,
2. Misse Sunol M. (SPA) 1697, 3. Spasov Ilija (MAK) 1640.
Teams(18): China 2547, 2. Spain 2448, 3. Romania ( 2443).
CLASS S4B: Individuals (36): 1. Smatuv A.(RUS) 684,
2. Volkanov An.(UKR) 680, 3. Xu Luda (CHI) 677.
Teams(12):1. Ukraine 1880, 2. China 1667, 3. Russia 1635.
CLASS S4B: Indiviruals (51)1. Klouser David (USA) 720,
2. Konstantinovics A.(LAT) 696, 3.Todoroc Dorin (ROM) 695.
Teams(18): 1. Slovakia 1752, 2. Latvia 1742, 3. U.S.A. 1726.
CLASS S5B: Individuals(15): Dajnowski Hybert(POL) 676,
2. Dragomir Rasvan (ROM) 664, 3. Pola Dan (ROM) 654.
Teams(5):1. Poland 1945 , 2. Romania 1859 3. Russia 1842.
CLASS S5B: Individuals (25) : 1. Biedron Robert (USA) 1125,
2. Bielicki Marcin (POL) 749, 3. Kreutz Bob (USA) 721.
Teams (9) : 1. U.S.A. 2422, 2. Netherlands 1970, 3. Russia
1908.
CLASS S6A: Individuals(37): 1. Milanovic Branislav(YUG) 505,
2. Ratu Florin (ROM) 498, 3.Sperbelis Ge. (LTU) 479.
Teams(12): 1. Ukraine 1263, 2. Romania 1247, 3. Poland 1240.
CLASS S6A: Individuals (51): 1. Ducak andrija (YUG) 505,
2. Lasocha Slawo (POL) 503, 3. Kuczek Kevin (USA) 500.
Teams(18): 1. U.S.A. 1442, 2. Yugoslavia 1396, 3. Poland 1298.
CLASS S7: Individuals( 16): 1. Bagrowski Michal(POL) 819,
2. Kapowicki Marcin (POL) 738, 3.Dragomir Razvan (ROM) 719.
Teams(6): 1. Riomania 2073, 2. Lituania 1962, 3. Czech
Republic 1776.
CLASS S7: Individuals (19): 1. Levikh Alexander (RUS) 982,
2. Bujac Marek(POL) 937, 3. Zych Robert(CZE) 935.
Teams(8): 1.Poland 2638,2.Romania 2413,3. Slovakia 2351.
CLASS S8E: Individuals(10): 1. Hudak Igor (SVK) 1319 ,
2. Hudak Martin(SVK) 1305, 3. Szynaka Andrzej(POL) 1264.
Teams(4): 1. Poland 2560, 2. Slovakia 2478, 3. Czech Republic 225.
CLASS S8E: Individuals (23): 1. Kravcenko Alexander(RUS)
1525, 2. Chalupa Jaroslav(CZE) 1466, 3. Taborski Jiri(CZE) 1351.
Teams(9):1. Czech Republic 3251, 2. Slovakia 3269, Russia 3270.
REVIEW OF AWARDS
(Gold / Silver /Bronze)
Andrija Ducak (YUG) - W. Champ S6A (S) receives FAI gold
medal by FAI Jury members S. Pelagic and P. Wlodarczyk
troubled by bad weather, some
inexperienced local timers, the quality of
altitude measurements and general
conditions for altitude competitions. In
spite of these problems all classes were
completed in the limits required by the FAI
Sporting Code Part 4.
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March ’99
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POLAND
UKRAINE
RUSSIA
U.S.A.
ROMANIA
SLOVAKIA
YUGOSLAVIA
CZECH REPUBLIC
CHINA
GERMANY
LATVIA
LITUANIA
THE NETHERLANDS
EVENT PERSONNEL:
GENERAL CONTEST DIRECTOR:
Mihail Zanciu
SCALE JUDGES:
Anatoliy Sparish (Ukraine) - Chief Judge,
Ian Dowsett (UK), Riszard Smolinski
(Poland), Liviu Faciu (Romania) and
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FAI JURY: PRESIDENT:
Srdjan D. Pelagic (Yugoslavia)
MEMBERS:
Pawel Wlodarczyk (Poland), Marius Conu
(Romania) - (reserve for Werner Groth Germany).
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“THOSE KATANICS” - three
generations of champions
by Srdjan D. Pelagic, FAI Jury Chairman
“T
hose Katanics are coming
again. Forget your medals”.
These are words most often
heard in Yugoslavia and recently in many
international, and mostly World Cup
contests. “Those Katanics” , are three
“spacemodelling musketeers”; three
generations of spacemodellers and all top
competitors, in one family. They live in a
small lovely town, Sremska Mitrovica, 50
miles west of Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
Who are they? Grandfather Radojica
Katanic (61) is a recently retired teacher of
technical education. Son and uncle Zoran
(38) is a technician who has spent his
entire life as a coach of aero and
spacemodellers in the Aero Club Sremska
Mitrovica. His grandson and nephew
Mirko (12) are elementary school pupils.
All of them are champions and they are
also chief designers of Yugoslav time
duration space models. In addition they
also produce space model kits for
beginners.
Radojica Katanic is a world record
holder in class S9A - gyrocopters. He beat
the old record in the class by 114 % and
improved it from 83 to 203 secs.!!! In
addition Radojica is a Yugoslav national
team member and participated in many
European and World Championships. He
has won World Cup contests several times
and was fourth in General Placings in
World Cup contests class S6A for 1997.
He was also Yugoslav national champion
several times in different classes.
Zoran Katanic is also a regular Yugoslav
national team member. He took third
place in S1B at the WSMC’s 98 in Suceava,
Romania, was World Cup winner in
Bratislava 1998 and is 2nd in General
Placing at the World Cup contest for 1998
in class S6A. He was also Yugoslav national
champion many times in different classes.
Mirko Katanic is just entering the
spacemodelling arena, but he is already
regional Yugoslav champion in class S6A
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L to R (with medals) Zoran, Radojica and Mirko Katanic and world Champ Andrija Ducak
and is in the running to be national
champion. His has been competing for
four years, but his time is coming. Mirko’s
father, Dragan is an electronics engineer
and works professionally with an
electronics institute in Belgrade, but he
always has free time to be the loudest fan of
“Those Katanics”.
The Katanics team is regularly
reinforced by the cooperation of Andrija
Ducak, a technical education teacher, also
from Sremska Mitrovica. They have been
together for many years and work as a
single ‘man’. Andrija was world champion
in S6A for 1998.
All these guys (except Andrija) are very
quiet
and
hardworking.
Their
accomplishments are known world wide.
As a result they were awarded Gold Eagle
Diplomas, the highest award of the
Aeronautical Union of Yugoslavia, and
Andrija, as a world champion, became the
Sportsman of the year of the Aeronautical
Union of Yugoslavia for 1998. He was
awarded the “Golden Eagle Statue”.
Dr Ing Antonio Mazzarachio, the
winner of the 1998 World Cup in class
S6A, won with a maximum of 150 points
(3 times winner in World Cup contests). A
very good friend of “Those Katanics” told
me confidentially in Suceava (Romania): “
I won in WC 1998 with 150 points, but I
never earned even a full 50 points when the
Katanics were competing in the same
competition. They are very “dangerous”.
But Antonio is a lovely man and a real
sportsman. He tried to beat the world
record in class S9A in Bratislava. He set an
Italian record with 82 seconds, but by 2
seconds missed beating the world record.
Radojica Katanic flew also and improved
the world record by an unbelievible 114%.
Antonio borrowed prepared forms from
Radojica and so prevented him having a
large headache beacause of very
complicated administration which follows
requests for record homologation. Many
thanks to a real sportsman Antonio!
CIAM FLYER
March ’99
FAI European Championships
for Control Line Models 1999
Valladolid - Spain
Warriors, ready for the flying.
Model plane enthusiasts always flying.
Warriors, friends without no place,
return with us, always united to fly.
“R
eturn with us, always united to
fly.”, that is one of the lines of
the song the Organising
Committee of the E.C. ‘ 97 had chosen for
this particular event. The Championships
were introduced by a song and were closed
with the showing of a video tape at the end
of the final banquet. As a result, a full
colour booklet of the event was produced.
What surprises will face the Organising
Committee for the next E.C. ?
This year, we will meet again in
Valladolid from 12 to 18 July, so all
sportsmen can fly and fight to win the
European Championships for four years
(in the year 2001 there will be no
European Champs since the WAG will be
held that year).
After the 1997 Championships, Mr
Andras Ree - President of the FAI Jury in
the contest - said in an interview with El
Norte de Castilla, a Spanish newspaper,:
“The European Championships 1997 have
been a real success due to the wonderful
facilities built by Junta de Castilla y León,
the organising effort made by Aerosafa,
good levels attained by the technical staff
and the warm welcome offered by the
Town Council and the excellent Spanish
food.” Everything must be taken into
account.
While the official flying programme was
being conducted there were some cultural
activities presented for spectators. This
coming year these same activities will again
be displayed and may be increased.
Within the sporting aspect of the
Championships, AEROSAFA wants to
promote the base of our sport and use the
Championships as a launching ramp. They
have proposed to the CIAM the idea of
organising Promotional Championships
for Youths in Aerobatics and Combat. This
idea is to develop educational aims, always
present in Aerosafa’s mind, and to spread
the knowledge of our sport among
youngsters and children, giving them the
chance to become the pilots of the future.
The arrangements for this event were
presented last November to the CIAM
Bureau in Paris, as follows:
* Organisers invite Youths (15 - 18 years)
not taking part in the FAI European
Junior Championships and Cadets (9 14 years) to attend the event and try to
promote our sport.
* Each country can enter up to FIVE
contestants in each category and age
group.
* The entry fee will be:
YOUTHS .......2.000 pesetas
CADETS ........ 1.000 pesetas
* The models can be your own. The
engines have to be:
Aerobatics .......from 2.5 cc to 6.5 cc
Combat............2.5 cc (Plastic Propeller)
* We will follow the FAI SPORTING
CODE regarding penalties and offences.
* In Aerobatics the list of manoeuvres is:
CADETS: competitors are considered
Spainsh National Championships and World Cup 1998.
CIAM FLYER
March ’99
to be cadets up to and including the
calendar year in which they attain the age
of 14.
• Starting
k=2
• Take-off
k=3
• Horizontal flight (2 laps) k=2
• Wing-over
k=4
• First inside loop
k=2
• Second inside loop
k=3
• Third inside loop
k=4
• Inverted flight (2 laps)
k=8
• First outside loop
k=3
• Second outside loop
k=4
• Third outside loop
k=5
• One Horizontal Eight
k=10
• One Vertical Eight
k=12
• Landing
k=6
THE FLIGHT WILL BE ALLOWED
5 MINUTES INCLUDING TAKE-OFF
AND LANDING.
YOUTHS: competitors are considered
to be youths up to and including the
calendar year in which they attain the age
of 18.
• Starting
k=1
• Take-off
k=2
• Reverse wing-over
k=6
• Three inside loops
k=6
• Inverted flight (2 laps)
k=2
• Two inside square loops
k=12
• Two outside square loops k=12
• Two Horizontal Eights
k=6
• Two Vertical Eights
k=8
• Two Overhead Eights
k=6
• Landing
k=6
THE FLIGHT WILL BE ALLOWED
6 MINUTES INCLUDING TAKE-OFF
AND LANDING.
* AWARDS: - Trophy and diploma from
the organiser.
- An engine for the first three competitors
in each category and group of age.
WE WOULD LIKE TO PROMOTE
FROM EARLY CHILDHOOD THIS
SPORT BASED ON WINGS:
Blue wings,
Reflections of the blue sky.
A passion for flying
Wrapping the Universe.
And Europe, in Spain,
cut blue wings.
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Thermal Soaring holds its
first World Championship
by Jack Sile
T
he CIAM Soaring Committee has
for some seven years been
developing a thermal soaring class,
F3J, to complement its multi task event
F3B. F3J was accepted by the CIAM as a
World Championship event in 1996 and
held its first Continental Championship in
1997 in the Slovak Republic. This was a
great event that was well attended with all
the enthusiasm of an international event.
It was well run and and well attended, but
the first World Championship was an even
bigger event that involved even more
planning and required a lot of help from
enthusiastic gliding people. Thus it fell
upon the shoulders of the British Model
Flying Association and the British
Association of Radio Control Soarers to
bid for and host the first championship.
In August, 1998, we gathered in a field
in western England to see who was the best
thermal soarer in the world and to try this
new class of gliding competiton at its
highest level. Just about everyone who
follows thermal soaring was present to
watch the very best of the sport in action
at the championships. The competitors
came from all over world and displayed an
outstanding sportsmanship second to
none. The exchange of technical expertise
and general knowledge was really
something to behold. No one can predict
how these things will turn out, what the
weather will be or what kind of unique
problems will be encountered. But in
keeping with what was needed, i.e.
thermals, the weather could not have been
more cooperative, the turnout was large
and the organization was superb.
Unfortunately, the man who worked the
most to insure that the Championships
were held in the UK and F3J’s most avid
supporter, the late Neil Webb, was not in
attendance because of his untimely death
in France a few years ago. Neil had
recruited Nick Neve the British CIAM
delegate to assist him in the organization of
the event prior to his death and it fell upon
him to recruit an army of workers and
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secure the necessary flying field to hold the
event. It is a credit to Neil’s memory that
the event went well and was well organized.
Twenty eight countries entered 3 man
teams (well, almost three man teams); so,
with a team manager and a host of helpers
a couple of hundred glider guiders and
supporters arrived in Upton upon Severn
to do some high altitude soaring.
Contestants came from Kazakhstan,
Guatamala and South Africa. Europe and
North America were also well represented.
There was the European Champion, the
current F3J Euro-League Champion, and
of course a very strong American team.
And equally important was the fact that
there was a junior category that only
added to the excitement and good fun of
F3J.
If you aren’t familiar with F3J it is
important to explain what the object is.
First you launch your glider with 150
metres of fishing line which has a glider
attached at one end and one or two
runners at the other. Sounds easy, but
actually it can be pretty interesting when
ten or more pilots are all vying for the same
air space and the average wing span is over
three metres. The pilot has a helper who
attempts to guide him to the nearest
thermal and stay in it for the best part of
ten minutes. Landing comes next and a
maximum of 100 bonus points can be
gained by a spot landing. Do this at least
five times or more and you qualify for the
championship round called the “Fly-Off ”.
Far to simple to be accurate but finding
and using thermals is a pretty tricky
business; and that is where the skill comes
in. For example Ben Clerx from Southern
California, came off the launch line way to
early in one of his qualifying flights and
continued to fly. Amazingly and to all the
spectators delight continued to circle and
at very low altitude (about 30 feet) and
eventually due to his skill and the
efficiency of the aeroplane, climbed to
several hundred feet by the end of 10
minutes.
While all this was happening
Joe Wurts (USA), Arend Borst (Canada),
Jon Kohout (current Euro League
champion), just to name a few of the
eventual finalists, were getting on with the
job of qualifying for the championship
round.
On the final day of a what was now
beginning to feel like a very long week (we
had had another contest run by BARCS
called Interglide which was held as a warm
up to the championships) the weather was
finally turning and we had the equalizer.
Thermals were now hard to come by and
only the best were about to qualify for the
final and the Neil Webb Trophy. As the
weather deteriorated and the wind got up
it was time for a major change in strategy.
It was boom or bust time and pilots had to
seek further afield for what suddenly
became illusive thermals. In short the
good air had deserted us. Thus the best
qualified with the amazing Joe Wurts lst,
Dutchman Alex Hoekstra (European F3J
Champion) 2nd followed by Skip Miller
(USA), Peter Hoffman (Aut), Arend Borst
(Can), Ben Clerx (USA), Dion
Lienbenberg (RSA) Stefan Eder (Ger),
Phillip Kolb (Ger), Euro- League Champ
Jan Kohout (Cze), Bas Breijer (Ned),, and
finally Henning Czerny (Ger).
In the Juniors qualifying was led by the
German and Czech teams. Reinhart
Vallant was top Junior qualifer with
teammates Eiko Hasemann (2), and Kai
Thomas (4) joining him in the fly off.
Czech Marek Thomas (3) was joined by
Belgian Daniel Purbrick (5), who was
followed by Britain’s Andrew Taylor (6)
who was joined by fellow Brit, Simon
Jackson (8). A truly international field was
rounded out with Fins Janne Lauren and
Atte Mattsson. The Germans dominated
the fly-off. Reinhart Vallant just edged Kai
Thomas and Eiko Hasemann was third. A
truly dominant performance. A very
happy and rapidly emerging English
competitor brought up through the
Sheffield ranks was fourth place Simon
Jackson. His teammate, Andrew Taylor
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L to R: Jon Kohout, Joe Wurtz, Arend Borst.
was seventh. The junior’s fly-off was less
even than the Seniors, but the potential
was there for the furture and we can look
forward to many of these lads representing
their
countries
in
forthcoming
championships.
The Senior fly-off followed a pretty
straight forward pattern as all launched
together and almost landed together. Now,
it seems to be the opinion of all “post
event” analysts that had Canadian Arend
Borst not hit his helper on landing in
round one of the two round fly-off that he
would have been the lst world champion!
But that is the way of competition.
Usually a competitor can say that he broke
a line on launch or a tree got in the way or
something less dramatic than striking ones
own helper. But he did and he lost his
bonus of 100 which cost him the contest.
Jon Kohout was the best F3J pilot in
Europe in l997 and he proved that he is
likely to be Europe’s top pilot for several
years to come by finishing second. Third
was the unfortunate Borst. Skip Miller
from USA was fourth and the field was
rounded out with Eder, Czerny, Hoekstra,
Hoffman, Clerx, Liebenberg, Breijer, and
Kolb.
Thus ended the first F3J World
Championship. It had been a great week
and finished just before the rain came and
L to R: Kai Thomas, Reinhart Vallant,
Eiko Haesmann
a great banquet was held to celebrate the
event. We now look forward to the
European Championships in Romania in
July and the next World Championships in
Greece in 2000.
1998 Polish Juniors
I
n 1998 Polish juniors competed in all
World (5 Events) and European (1
event) Championships organised for
juniors winning 14 titles in total. In World
Championships they won 13 medals
including 4 gold, 5 silver, and 4 bronze.
The division of all World Championships
from 5 events for juniors is shown in tables
below.
When and wherever they flew, Polish
juniors attracted attention because of their
sporting ability and the minimum
involvement of their coaches and helpers.
Our team managers and delegate to the
CIAM are often asked the same question,
“Why do you have such good juniors?”
The answer is the ‘system of competition
used for children and youth in aero and
space modelling,’ which has been
constantly followed for many years. The
sports achievements of Juniors in top level
events and their smooth transition to
Senior competition is the goal of the
system.
There are 50 regional aero clubs and
about 300 aeromodelling clubs in Poland.
Following the “System of competition”
each year they organize various events for
the particular age groups:
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Michal Ordon - World Vice Champion in F2A and Rafal Kucharski placed 4th in F2B.
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Beginners up to age of 14
• Classes: kites, hot air balloons, FlN
events: Championships of the local club
• Championships of the regional aero club
• National Championships
Cadets up to the age of 16
• Events: Championships of the regional
aero club in classes: FIL, FlA/M, FlH,
FlG, FlK, F2A/M, F2B/M, F2C/M,
F2D/M, F3J/M, F4S, S6A. National
Championships in classes: FlH, FlG,
FlL, F2A/M, F2B/M, F3JIM, F4S.
• National Cups in classes: FlH, FlG, FIK
table below) proves how effective system
of competition for children and youth
works.
Juniors up to the age of 18
• Events:
National
Championships
in
classes: FlA, FlB, FlJ, FlD,
FlE, F2A, FZB, F2C,
F2D, F3A-club, F3B,
F3J, F4B, SlB, S3A, S4B,
SSB, S6A, S7, S8E, S9B.
Open National Cups (for
juniors and seniors) in
classes: FlA, FlB, FlC, FlJ
- for juniors only, FlE,
F2B, F3A, F3B, F3C,
F3J, F4B, F4C, F4C/X,
F5B, F5D, S6A, S7, S8E.
22 titles in 7 World
Championships in 1998
won by seniors and
juniors of Poland (see the
Team World Champions in S8E. Left to
right: Andrzej Szynaka (3rd place
individually), Piotr Tendera and Bartosz
Boniecki accompanied by Dorota
Wlodarczyk, team manager.
Position Country
Champion 1st Vice Champion 2nd Vice Champion
(Gold Medal) (Silver Medal)
(Bronze Medal)
1. Russia
11
5
9
2. USA
8
7
7
3. Ukraine
8
3
5
4. Poland
6
10
6
5. Germany
6
3
3
6. Romania
5
6
5
7. Slovakia
3
4
1
8. Yugoslavia
3
3
2
9. Czech Rep.
3
2
7
10. China
3
1
3
11. France
2
1
12. Great Britain
1
2
2
13. Spain
1
2
14. Switzerland
1
1
1
15. Hungary
1
1
16. Lithuania
3
2
17. Latvia
2
2
18. Netherlands
1
1
Italy
1
1
20. Japan
1
Rep. S. Africa
1
Moldovia
1
Finland
1
24. Austria
2
25. Macedonia
1
Canada
1
Belarus
1
Total
62
62
62
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Total
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In the World Spacemodelling Championships (Rumunia 16
Suceava)
juniors of Poland won 9 medals. On the picture:
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team World Champions in S5B. Left to right: Michal
12
Bagrowski-World Champion in S7, Marcin Kapowicki 16
World Vice Champion in S7, Hubert Dajnowski - World
8
Champion in S5B.
8
12 Position Country
Champion 1st Vice Champion 2nd Vice Champion Total
(Gold Medal) (Silver Medal)
(Bronze Medal)
7
1. Ukraine
6
3
4
13
3
2. Russia
6
2
5
13
5
3. Poland
4
5
4
13
3
4. Romania
4
4
3
11
3
5. Slovakia
2
3
5
2
6. Yugoslavia
2
2
4
5
7. Germany
2
1
1
4
4
8. France
2
2
2
9. Lithuania
3
2
5
2
10. China
1
2
3
1
11. Finland
1
1
1
12. USA
1
1
1
13. Great Britain
1
1
1
14. Moldavia
1
1
2
15. Czech Rep.
4
4
1
16. Latvia
2
2
1
17. Austria
1
1
1
Total
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
INVITATION
Modellers Camp at Kunszentmiklós, Hungary, 3rd - 11th July 1999.
Saturday - Tuesday
- Flying out of competition
- Folk art activity in Kunszentmiklós
- Bathing/swimming and games
- Bacon toasting, etc
Tuesday - Thursday
- Freeflight competition in F1H, F1K
and smaller categories for juniors and
those aged 15-16
Thursday - Saturday
- International Antique Modeller’s
Meeting and competition
Lodgings
- On the airfield in tents is free
- In the Varga Tamás College (350,ft/day), 6090 Kunszentmiklós tér 5.
Tel: 36-06-76-31-352
- In private houses
- Everybody needs to arrange their own
lodgings!
Meals
- Self-catering or 3 meals a day on the
airfield (700, ft/day)
Other Fees
- 300,ft/person (contribution to the
expenses of the competition)
For more information
Juhász Ferenc, Budapest Damjanich
J.str. 131 Hungary 1213.
Tel: 36-1-420-2810
Nagy László Budapest Petz F. str.
26 V/52 Hungary 1213.
Tel: 36-1-277-9936
E-mail: [email protected]
Further programmes
- Relation of world champion’s
experience
- Theoretical lecture and practical
demonstration, giving advice
In Kunszentmiklós
- Exhibition of models
- Wood carving, basket weaving,
rushwork pleating and other folk art
activities
- Folk dance, folk song, art and
narration by Evinors of Kunszentmiklós
- Riding, bathing/swimming and
angling
Everybody welcome!
p.s. Kunszentmiklós is in the same
lowland area as Apaj (where the “Puszta
Cup” was held) and a few kilometres from
Dömsöd and is very good territory for
flying. If necessary we will send a map.
Anniversary Celebrations celebrated by two new World Cup contests
From, Associazione ex Allievi
1999 marks the 50th anniversary of the
formation of the Gruppo Aeromodellistico
of Scuola Allievi FIAT. Also celebrating
their anniversary is Associazione Ex Allievi
FIAT. To celebrate these anniversaries
World Cup contests for F5D and F5B will
be held in 1999 to determine the winners
of two new silver cups to be presented at
the 2000 CIAM Plenary meeting. The
CIAM Bureau accepted these new cups
from the Group Aexa FIAT at their
meeting in November, l998, which will be
presented to the CIAM during the March,
l999, meeting.
Winners will be
determined by the best performances from
competitors taking part in at least two
competitions included in the international
calender.
‘Puszta Cup’ 30-31 May and C02 ‘Cavalloni Cup’, 6 June 1998, Domsod, Hungary.
by Andor Harmath
The Puszta Cup for FlA, FlB and FlC
was held 30-31 May at Domod, 51 km
south of Budapest, Hungary. This was a
World Cup event and had 161
competitors, from 21 countries. The
contests were held during cloudy and even
thunder storm conditions.
Winners:
F1A, lst Ervin Pacher, Aut. 2nd Rudolf
Holzleitner, Aut , 3rd Gerhard Aringer.
FlB, lst Oleg Kulakovskij, Ukr, 2nd
Jozsef Krasznai, Hun, 3rd Bernd Silz, Ger
F1C, Evgueny Verbitsky, Ukr, 2nd
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Reinhard Truppe, Aut, 3rd Mario Rocca,
Ita.
Presentations were on the field and on
the final day there was a banquet in the
Domsod Community Center.
The Thirteenth International CO2
‘Calvalloni Cup’ was held on June 6, l998,
also at Domsod and is part of the Eurotrophy series. The Competition was
organized by the Budapest Modelling
Association. The contest was attended by
38 competitors from Austria and Hungary.
Under sunny skies the contest was a success
with the winners being:
Individual result, and winner of the
Cavalloni Cup, Werner Schaupp, Aut, 2nd
Laszlo, Hun, 3rd Edmund Huber, Aut.
This was the second time that Schaupp had
won the cup.
In the team event, lst place went to
MFC Winer Neustadt, 2nd place,
Zalaegerszegi VMK, and 3rd went to the
Austrian Aero club.
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INTERNATIONAL AEROMODELLING
SPORTING CALENDER 1999
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
9-14 July
World Aeromodelling Championship - Pylon Racing Models F3D
12-21 August
World Aeromodelling Championship - F3C
25-31 August
World Aeromodelling Championship - F1A, F1B, F1C
4-11 September
World Aeromodelling Championship - F3B
21-26 September
World Aeromodeling Championship
F1E (Snrs & Jnrs)
NorrKoping
(Sweden)
Deblin
(Poland)
Negev
(Israel)
Rustenberg
(South Africa)
Liptovsky Miulas
(Slovak Republic)
CONTINENTAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
3-11 July
12-18 July
17-24 July
21-29 August
European Aeormodelling Championship - F3J (Snrs & Jnrs)
European Aeromodeling Championship
Control Line Circular Flight
European Aeromodelling Championship - F5B, F5D
European Aeromodelling Championship - F4B, F4
11-18 September
European Aeromodelling Championship
Space Models (Snrs & Jnrs)
Deva
(Romainia)
Valladoid
(Spain)
Kalsborg
(Sweden)
Vodochody
(Czech Republic)
Novi Sad
(Yugoslavia)
FAI AEROMODELLING/SACEMODELLING WORLD RECORDS
by Bob Underwood
HOMOLOGATED IN 1998
Class F3 - #31, Radio Control, Piston Motor
Distance in a Closed Circuit - 1,301 km.
Maynard S. Hill (USA) 2 August 1998
Class F5 - #69, Primary Powered Electric
Distance in a Closed Circuit - 424.5 km.
Walter Engel (Switzerland) - 21 June 1998
Class F5 - #73, Solar Powered Electric
Altitude - 1,283 meters
David Beck, (USA) 15 August 1998
Class F5 - #59, Secondary Powered Electric
Duration -10 hours 38 minutes 30 seconds
Emil Hilber (Switzerland) 21 June 1998
Class S4E - #45, Boost/glide Space Model
Duration - 4 minutes 21 seconds
Leszek Pienkowski, (Poland) - 30 May 1998
Class F5 - #63 - Secondary Powered Electric
Distance in a Closed Circuit - 315.5 km.
Emil Hilber (Switzerland) - 21 June 1998
Class F3 - #21, Radio Controlled, Piston Motor
Distance in a Straight Line - 830 km.
Ronald C. Clem (USA) - 14 June 1998
Class F3 - #35 - Radio Controlled, Helicopter
Speed in a Straight Line - 144.67 km/h
Vladimir Bulatnikov (Russia) 2 July 1998
Class F5 - #65, Primary Powered Electric
Duration - 15 hours 12 minutes 30 seconds
Walter Engel (Switzerland) - 21 June 1998
Class S9A - #32 - Gyrocopter
Duration - 3 minutes 23 seconds
Radojica Katanic (Yugoslavia) 9 May 1998
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Class F2C - #57 - Control Line Team Race
Speed - 100 laps - 3 minutes 14.1 seconds
Sergei Andrejev - Sergei Sobko (Russia)
26 August 1998
Class F2C - #58 - Control Line Team Race
Speed - 200 laps - 6 minutes 37.5 seconds
Sergei Andrejev - Sergei Sobko (Russia)
27 August 1998
Class F5 - #80 - Combined Power Electric
Speed - 274.80 Km/h
Wolfgang Kuppers (Germany) 9 August 1998
Class F2A - #27A - Control Line Speed
Speed - 301 km/h
Luis Parramon Sarrate (Spain) - 26 August 1998
Class F5 - #74 - Solar Powered Electric
Speed - 80.63 km/h
Wolfgang Schaper (Germany) 21 June 1998
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