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CIAM FLYERIssue No 7 March 1997

CIAM FLYER is the official newsletterof the FAI AEROMODELLINGCOMMISSION (CIAM),93 boulevard du Montparnasse, 75006, Paris, FRANCE.

CIAM FLYER is published under theauspices of the Information andEducation 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/Fax: UK 1449-675190.E.mail Jack Sile 100307.522 @Compuserve. com.

Contributing Editors: Horace Hagen Guy RevellMike Colling RC Soaring DigestBruno Delor Emil GiezendanneyDave Beck & Lee MurryAerosafa Anton SijanecJoze Cudan Narve JensenLakis Prastitis Brian SmithLouis Parramon Sarrate

Special thanks to all those whocontributed photos and articles. Alsoadditional thanks to Suffolk Offset,Ipswich, UK, for their technicalsupport and advice.

Opinions expressed by authors andcorrespondents are not necessarily those ofthe Editor or of the CIAM/FAI.

Articles from CIAM FLYER may bereproduced under the conditions thatacknowledgement will be given to theauthor, original source if any, and CIAMFlyer.

Front Cover Photo:National Cypriot Champion in noviceaerobatics Nicolas Georgiades with a littlehelp from dad.

NOTEto CIAM delegates, modelling editors, columnists, record holders,

modelling instructors and other modellers.

CIAM FLYER is compiled from YOUR contributions. Closing datefor the next issue is January 14th 1998.

Your help will be greatly appreciated.

EDITORIALThis could be one of the most exciting yearsin aeromodelling that we have yetexperienced. The World Air Games arepromising to be one of the most importantmilestones in modelling aviation history. Asalways, you are playing an important part inthe promotion of our sport/hobby.

Those that have so generously supported theFlyer with written and photographic

material once again demonstrate the continued growth of world wideinterest in CIAM activities. Your individual and combined efforts aregreatly appreciated. We continue to experiment with the Internet andhope to improve our communication links with all our members in1997. A great deal of hard work has been put forth by ThierryMontigneaux in establishing our part of the FAI web page and wehope that even more help is forthcoming this year. We now betterunderstand our needs and your technical skills are needed if we are toinclude in our web pages, everything we would like to see.

And once again my annual appeal for articles, photos and illustrationsfor the 1998 Flyer. Do keep using that fill-in flash, sending head andshoulders photos for author credit, and providing as much technicalinformation about models as you can.

JACK

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PRESIDENTÕS CORNER

PRESIDENT Mr. Sandy PIMENOFF (FN)1st VICE PRESIDENT Mr. Pierre CHAUSSEBOURG (F)2nd VICE PRESIDENT Mr. Werner GROTH (D)3rd VICE PRESIDENT Mr. Andras REE (HUN)Technical Secretary Mr. Tony AARTS (NL)Secretary Mr. Chris GREENWOOD (AUS)Assistant Secretary Mr. Pierre CHAUSSEBOURG (F)

SUBCOMMITTEE CHAIRMEN:Information & Education Mr. Mike COLLINGS (GB)F1 Mr. Ian KAYNES (GB)F2 Dr. Laird JACKSON (BG)F3A Mr. Ron CHIDGEY (US)F3B Mr. Thomas BARTOVSKY (CZ)F3C Mr. Horace HAGEN (US)F3D Mr. Robert BROWN (US)F4 Mr. Narve JENSON (NOR)F5 Mr. Emil GIEZENDANNER (CH)Space Mr. Otakar SAFFEK (CZ)

CIAM/FAI OFFICERS 1996/97

Dear FriendsHaving recently returned from a trip to Turkey, I am happy to state that the preparations for the aeromodelling events of the first World Air Games are onschedule, and progressing according to plan.

Our Turkish friends are working very hard indeed to make the WAG into a success,and the aeromodelling events certainly have a good site at Gölbasi, some 35 kmsouth of Ankara.

As CIAM expert, I have visited Ankara several times to supervise WAG preparationsand I consider it a privilege to co-operate with the representatives of the TurkishAeronautical Association, who are sparing no effort to create a memorable meeting

for us.

The WAG is the grandest enterprise ever created by the FAI, and I am convinced it will be a unique experience forall participants. But to make it into a real success we all have to join in and support it as competitors and supporters.

I therefore urge all our members to participate in the WAG, and so make it the greatest FAI event of all time.

THE WORLD AIR GAMESour biggest enterprise ever

Sandy PimenoffCIAM President


DIPLOMA AND MEDALSALPHONSE PENAUD DIPLOMA

by Sandy Pimenoff

Peter Halman,the UK’s mosts u c c e s s f u lcontrol linespeed flier, wasborn in Englandin 1945. Likemany youngboys in the fiftieshe developed an

interest in aeromodelling and built free flightmodels until, one day, he was given an EDHornet engine as a present. That small giftwas to start him on an odyssey that has seenhim compete all over the world, producedworld records, a world beating engine and -the fulfilment of a 36 year dream - a WorldChampionship crown.

Peter joined the Royal Air Force as anAircraft Apprentice in 1962 and specialisedin Electrical & Instrument Systems. Heserved for 12 years and it was during thistime that his interest in engines in general.and model aero engines in particular,developed. He had the opportunity to learnhow to use machine tools, which, togetherwith access to machinery, an ever increasingknowledge of engines and an interest in alltypes of control line flying, led to himbuilding his first engines.

PETER HALMANIn 1966, and with a deep interest in

F2C, he attended the World Championshipsat RAF Swinderby, England. Seeing BillWisniewski & the TWA in action in thespeed circle changed forever whatever flyingplans he might have had: he was hooked andspeed flying became his life.

However, it was not until 1969, and thebanning of monoline, that he took up F2A.Highly competitive as well as talented, Peterqualified for the British Team and competedin his first European Championship thatyear in Gent, Belgium. He placed 10th witha speed of 205 kph using a Super Tigre Gl5RV and has qualified for a British Teamplace ever since.

When Peter left the Air Force, he spent ashort time with British Midland Airwaysbefore joining Ron Irvine at Irvine EnginesLimited. It was here that Peter, fullysupported by Ron Irvine, began the research& development work which wouldculminate in powerful engines for both thecompetitive and leisure flier.

The Irvine 15R is the jewel in the Irvinecrown, and Peter produced the firstprototype on Good Friday, 1987. He flewthe engine at the European Championshipsin Sweden that year and it helped the Britishteam to the bronze medal - the first British

speed team success for many years.Continual development meant an ever

more useful engine with an increasing worldwide demand. In 1993 Peter took theindividual silver at the EuropeanChampionships, and the British Speed Teamwon its first ever team gold. Of the threeman team, Peter and Dick McGladdery wereboth using Irvine 15R engines.

The culmination of Peter’s flying careerso far, was at the World Championships inChina in 1994, where he won individualgold and the British Speed team took theteam gold.

Back at the Irvine factory, where Peter isTechnical Director, he has been developing anew generation of engines using the sametechniques as for the l5R and transferring theinformation for use at low rpm.

No-one would disagree that noise is oneof the major pollutants of modern life and ina successful effort to reduce engine noise, the‘Q’ series of ultra-quiet engines has beendeveloped.

The Q72, for example, running on a13"x 9" propeller produces just 74 dba. Thetest model which the Q72 powers, is a scaleaerobatics model which weighs sevenpounds with the engine delivering exactlythe right power at the right time. Power has

BORIS KRASNORUTSKY UkraineBoris Krasnorutsky is a retired senior air-craft designer from the Antonov AircraftWorks in Kiev. He now lives in Moscowand co-ordinates record activities of theNational Aeroclub of Russia.

As well as being in the USSR Nationalteam many times he has also been theNational Champion of the USSRControl Line Team racing F2C severaltimes as well as being the WorldChampion in 1970 in F2C.

He has set a great number of USSR

world records and currently holds thefollowing world records.F1B Free Flight Rubber SeaplaneNo. 40 Duration 49mins45s 5.1987No. 41 Distance in a

straight line 12,88km 9.1987No. 42 Height 1143m 5.1987No. 43 Speed 113,24km/h 6.1989

F3A RC Piston Motor SeaplaneNo. 48 Duration 14h50min23s 8.1993

In the next two years Boris plans toimprove his own No. 48 record (that’sthe one I’m aiming at) and to beatMaynard Hill’s absolute world durationrecord 33h 39mins 15s (no. 20, F3a).

I personally know Boris and he is a 61year old man who has a wonderful senseof humour. He has a very generous per-sonality and is an all round good guy.


Aeromodelling Gold Medal1996 Aeromodelling Gold Medal was awarded to Pawel Wlodarczyk from Poland. Dorota Wlodarczyk, Sports Division, Aero Club of Poland

PAWEL WLODARCZYK is 50 years old.His adventure with aeromodelling startedwhen he was nine years old. At that time helearned the secrets of almost all classes tochoose his favourites: rubber powered freeflight and control line team racing. He wasfour times National Champion (includingNational Champion of juniors in 1963),five times National Vice Champion inboth FlB and F2C. Pawel was a member ofthe national F1B team that placed 2nd atthe 1975 World Championships inBulgaria. Pawel is a teacher. He graduatedfrom the Academy of Physical Education.He is a national coach and aeromodellinginstructor. He has founded manyaeromodelling clubs. For several years(since l964) he has worked as an instructor.In 1972 he was employed by the PolishAero Club. In 1983 he was promotedManager of the Aeromodelling Division,and now is Chief of Training andAeromodelling Sport. Since 1976 he hasbeen a National Coach in Aeromodellingand a Polish delegate to CIAM-FAI since1978. He initiated the first Free FlightWorld Cup for Juniors: (1988), a first inaeromodelling history; the 1992 WorldFree Flight Model Championships, Poland- Leszno, the 1992 World Indoor ModelChampionships, Poland - Wroclaw and the1994 World Space Model Championships,Poland - Leszno. He was both initiator andmember of the Organising Committees of13 World and European Championshipsorganised in Poland:

1. World Control Line Model Championships, Czestochowa - 1980

2. 5th World Spacemodelling Championships, Nowy Sacz ~ 1983

3. 1st European Indoor Model Championships, Wroclaw- 1987

4. 1st World Free Flight Model Championships for Juniors, Leszno - 1988

5. 1st World Slope Soaring Glider Championships, Nowy Targ - 1989

6. 11th World Scale Model Championships, Warszawa - 1990

7. European Control Line Model Championships,Czestochowa- 1991

8. World Indoor Model Championships for Seniors and 1st for Juniors, Wroclaw- 1992

9. World Slope Soaring Glider Championships for Seniors and 1st for Juniors, Krynica- 1993

10. World Spacemodelling Championships for Seniors and 1st for Juniors, Leszno- 1994

11. European Radio Control Helicopter Championships, Leszno - 1994

12. European Scale Model Championships, Deblin - 199513. 5th World Free Flight Model Championships for

Juniors, Krakow - 1996

24 times nominated by the FAI to the Jury for the followingevents:1. World Control Line Model Championships, Poland- 19802. European Spacemodelling Championships,

Bulgaria - 19813. World Spacemodelling Championships, Poland - 19834. European Free Flight Model Championships,

Jugoslavia - 19845. European Indoor Model Championships, Poland - 1987

6. World Free Flight Model Championships for Juniors, Poland - 1988

7. World Free Flight Model Championships, Argentina - 1989

8. World Slope Soaring Glider Championships, Poland - 1989

9. World Scale Model Championships, Poland - 199010. World Spacemodelling Championships, USSR-

1990 (reserve)11. European Slope Soaring Glider Championships,

Czechoslovakia - 199012. European Control Line Model Championships,

Poland - 199113. European Space modelling Championships,

Bulgaria - 1991 (reserve)14. World Free Flight Model Championships for Juniors,

Czechoslovakia - 199215. World Indoor Model Championships, Poland - 199216. World Control Line Model Championships,

Czechoslovakia- l992 (reserve)17. European Indoor Model Championships,

Czech Republic - 199318. World Slope Soaring Glider Championships,

Poland - 199319. World Spacemodelling Championships, Poland - 199420. World Free Flight Model Championships,

Ukraine - 1994 (reserve)21. European Radio Control Helicopter Model

Championships, Poland - 199422. World Slope Soaring Glider Championships, Slovakia -

199423. European Scale Model Championships, Poland- 199524. World Free Flight Model Championships for Juniors,

Poland - 1996

not been compromised in the search for aquiet, environmentally friendly engine.

In Holland Sport 40 Pylon is flown withthe Irvine Q40.

Although Peter flies competitively inF2A, he has also flown in the domestic F40& F21 speed classes in which he held theBritish record for a number of years. In 1986he used the Irvine 21R to take the worldrecord for the 5 cc F2A Class 28. A list of hismajor contest successes appears below.

MAJOR CONTEST SUCCESSESWorld Championships 1994 GoldEuropean Championships 1993 Silver

1989 BronzeBritish Nationals 1979-1981F2A Champion 1984

1986-1994British Nationals 1979Handicap Champion 1984

1989Utrecht Open International 1984 Gold

French Grand Prix 1990 Gold1994 Gold

Three Sisters International 1985-1989 Gold1991-1993 Gold

Majorca International 1988-1992 Gold


Anumber of years ago my friendMatti Jyllila asked me if Finlandshould sponsor a European

Championship for R/C Helicopters. Ithought it was a great idea since we neverhad a Championship that far north andcould certainly take advantage of thelonger days. In 1994 the aero-modellingsection of the Finnish AeronauticAssociation offered to run the 1996European F3C Championships in thetown of Nurmes, only about 250 km southof the arctic circle. After the initial offer,Matti Jyllila became Contest Director,Raimo Makkonen assistant CD andMarkku Virtanen event director. Theyselected the FAI Jury and Judges and otherofficials. The contest was scheduled for 4through 11 August.

I received my Finnair tickets threeweeks before the departure date of 31 July.Unfortunately, no one remembered thatthe Atlanta Olympic games had just endedand this created a shortage of seats. Tomake a long story short, I had to buy myown ticket to fly to Frankfurt, Germanyand then continued on Finnair from there.My luggage did not make it to Helsinki onmy flight, but arrived a few hours later. Aweek before my departure I had askedMatti about the weather and he told me hewas very concerned because the weatherwas very cold and wet and the forecast didnot look promising. I arrived in Helsinki

1996 F3C R/C HELICOPTEREUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPBy Horace G. Hagen, Chairman FAI Jury

on 1 August on a sunny and warm day. Ithanked Matti for ordering the goodweather and we both hoped it wouldcontinue. I was supposed to continue mytrip to Kuopio that day but since myluggage was delayed I spent a very niceafternoon and evening with Matti and hisfamily just north of Helsinki andcontinued to Kuopio the next morning.Kuopio is the nearest city to Nurmesserved by a scheduled airline.

Jari Vaahersola the owner of the onlyHobby shop in Nurmes met me uponarrival at Kuopio airport and we droveabout an hour to Nurmes The organisershad made arrangements for me to stay atthe Hyvarila Resort Hotel located adjacentto a beautiful lake. When we arrived at thehotel we ran into a number of contestantsand other contest officials including eventdirector Markku Virtanen. He was mostanxious to show me the flying site directlyin front of the hotel. On the way to the sitehe told me that most of the contest officialsand some contestants would also be stayingat this hotel. However, most of thecompetitors stayed in cabins at the~Bomba House~ resort, about 2 km fromthe flying site. The remaining competitorsstayed in cabins or in the campgroundadjacent to the flying site. Later in the day,Markku invited me to have a cup of coffeeand told me that breakfast, lunch anddinner would be furnished by the Hyvarila

Resort Hotel in exchange for meal tickets. My first impression of the site was that

it appeared to be too narrow. However, Idid like the idea that all of the supportbuildings were very conveniently located.After a guided tour of the site I suggestedthat the mobile homes directly oppositethe start box be moved out an additional30 meters to reduce the possibility ofoverflights. Even with this change the sitewas the smallest we have used to date Theflying field consisted of mostly lush grasswith essentially unlimited overfly zones ateach end. The flight line had to be laid outrunning northwest to southeast whichpermitted its use only from 10:00 hours tominimise the sun getting into the pilot’sand/or judge’s eyes. This did not present aproblem because the proximity to thearctic circle provided daylight from about05:00 to 20:00 hours. I have never beenthis far north and found it very interestingto see the sun rise in the northeast and setin the northwest. The sun almost appearedto circle overhead.

The basic helipad had been laid out afew days earlier to allow contestants topractice from 1 to 3 August as advertised inBulletin III. The headquarters building was

Group photo at the end of the competition


only about 30 meters from the helipad andprovided space for the contest informationdesk and computer scoring system. I wasvery interested in the computer scoringsystem that Matti had told me about.Matti introduced me to Esa Wainio whohad responsibility for the computerscoring system. Esa showed me theMicrosoft Windows based computerprogram that he wrote and I wasimpressed. The program did require a fewmodifications but they were made on thespot. (I must point out that thiscompetition marked the first use of theinternet for disseminating contest

information. Anyone with access to theinternet was able to keep informed before,during and after the competition. EsaWainio and JP Nurro were responsible forthe improved communications.)

Space for the competitors’ models,transmitter impound and conference roomwas allocated in the larger technicalbuilding. The final preparations of theflying site were completed by late Saturday3 August. Contestant registration and

model processingtook place onSunday, 4 August inthe technicalbuilding. The organ-isers checked eachmodel for FAIsticker, proper mark-ings and compliancewith general FAIregulations. Eachtransmitter waschecked for carrierfrequency and band-width. This activitywas followed by ateam manager’smeeting at 16:00

hours. The competition was officiallyopened by CIAM President SandyPimenoff and a representative for themayor of the city ofNurmes at 17:30hours and the dayended with atraditional Finnishsauna party com-mencing at 19:30hours.

Monday, wasthe official practiceday, and each of the16 teams was giventhirty minutes to test fly at the contest site.To our surprise none of the 39 competitorscomplained about the size of the flyingfield. Most of us were also surprised to seethe reigning European Champion withpod-and-boom helicopters. DanieleGraber had always flown his very attractiveZENITH model with a streamlinedfuselage. We learned later that Daniele hadlost his two top models in crashes duringthe previous months.

A demonstration flight for the judgestook place at 09:30 hours prior to the startof the first round on Tuesday. The firstround commenced at 10:00 hours andended at approximately 17:30 hours. Thestandard of flying increased since the 1994European Championship in Poland. Whenthe results of the first round were posted,the top five finisher’s were: (1)Rossner/Germany, (2) Graber/Switzerland,(3) Honle/Germany, (4) Kastiel/lsrael and(5) Sperling/Germany. An interestingresult because Honle was the Germannational champion.

The second round started at 10:00 hours

on Wednesday and also ended at 17:30hours. For the second round only the orderof the top five finisher’s changed: (1)Rossner, (2) Graber, (3) Sperling, (4)Honle and (5) Kastiel. The German teamappeared unbeatable but there was a battlebrewing between the Danish and theSwedish teams for second place. The thirdelimination round was flown on Thursdaywith the same time schedule. For the thirdround the top five finisher’s were: (1)Graber, (2) Honle, (3) Rossner, (4)Kessler/Switzerland and (5) Kastiel. Theweather for the elimination rounds wassunny, warm and dry with variable winds.The final top ten at the end of the threeelimination rounds (after dropping the lowround) are shown in the following table.These pilots earned the privilege of goingto the two fly-off rounds. The results at the end of the third

elimination round determined the finalteam standings. The Swiss team hastraditionally placed higher but the otherteams have improved even more. It mustalso be remembered that Daniele Graberwas defending his title and was thereforenot a member of the Swiss team. The topfive teams are displayed in the followingtable. The FAI Gold Medal was awarded tothe German team, the FAI Silver Medalwent to the Swedish team and the FAIBronze Medal went to the Danish team.

Friday was scheduled as a reserve day andwas used by most for a day of relaxation orsightseeing. Prior to the competition I, aschairman, requested that we convene aCIAM F3C subcommittee meeting to firmup the 1997 F3C program. We had a verysuccessful meeting on Friday with 9

Place Competitor Country Points1 Rössner, Joerg Germany 2000.002 Graber, Daniele Switzerland 1988.453 Hönle, Johann Germany 1882.554 Sperling, Jan Germany 1823.715 Kastiel, Efraim Israel 1804.416 Nyegård, Stefano Denmark 1769.787 Lucchi, Stefano Italy 1761.978 Kessler, Patrick Switzerland 1761.879 Bexander, Lars Sweden 1754.3410 Nielsen, Kaj Henning Denmark 1747.95

Winning FAI Teams left to right: Sweden 2nd, Germany 1st and Denmark3rd place being congratulated by CIAM President Sandy Pimenoff

Individual Winners after receiving FAI Medalsleft to right, Daniele Graber - Switzerland

2nd, Jörg Rössner - Germany 1st and JohannHönle also of Germany 3rd. CIAM President

Sandy Pimenoff is on the right

Place Country Points1 Germany 5706.262 Sweden 5136.153 Denmark 5129.824 Italy 5050.045 Switzerland 4918.42

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subcommittee members and many otherinterested individuals present. I alsoplanned to conduct a judges’ course for the1997 F3C rules and this was alsoadvertised prior to the competition. Thecourse took place in the large auditoriumand was quite successful with a respectablenumber of participants.

The first fly-off round was flown themorning of Saturday and the top fivefinisher’s for that round were: (1) Graber,(2) Rossner, (3) Kastiel, (4) Honle and (5)Kessler. This result gave Rossner andGraber each 2000 points and now thepressure for the second fly-off started tobuild. The second fly-off round followedafter lunch. Graber was the third pilot tofly and flew an excellent flight for which hereceived 211 points, the highest score forthis fly-off round thus far. Rossner was thelast pilot to fly and the only pilot whocould overtake Graber. All eyes werefocused on that flight. Under extremepressure, Rossner was able to put in thehighest scoring flight with 214.5 points(1000 points after normalisation) and thusbecame the new European F3CChampion. I was standing near the startbox when Rossner came back from thatflight and Graber walked up to him andshook his hand. Rossner said, “Youcertainly did not make it easy for me” towhich Graber answered, “I wanted you toearn the title”. True sportsmen, both ofthem. Thus, the FAI gold medal wasawarded to Joerg Rossner of Germany, theFAI silver medal went to Daniele Graber ofSwitzerland and the FAI bronze medalwent to Johann Honle of Germany. Thefollowing table lists the final top tenindividual finisher’s.

The weather during the entirecompetition was so pleasant that ourFinnish friends were quoted as saying that

we were experiencing their completesummer. The flying standard observedduring the contest was extremely high withthe individual winner not determined untilthe very last flight. A protest regarding ajudges’ decision was submitted to thecontest director during the secondelimination round. However, after carefulstudy, the protest was rejected by the FAIJury.

Prior to the award ceremony a FinnishFolk Dancing group performed in front ofthe national flags on the grass courtyardnext to the Hyvarila Hotel. During theaward ceremony the FAI Medals for theteam and individual winners were awardedby CIAM president Sandy Pimenoff inbright sunshine. Although the closingceremony was scheduled to take place onSunday, it was moved to Saturday to permitour southern European friends toparticipate. Most had travelled by auto andhad planned to leave after the closingbanquet.

The closing Banquet began at 19:00hours on Saturday 10 August in theBOMBA HOUSE restaurant. Theindividual and team winners were awardedvery nice trophies sponsored by theorganisers. Approximately 150 personsattended the banquet. The buffet styledinner serving traditional Finnish food was

enjoyed by most.Some participantsfrom southernEurope were over-heard to say thatthey had enoughpotatoes to last thema lifetime. Perhapsthey now havesympathy for anorthern Europeantravelling in south-

ern Europe. I prob-ably enjoyed it morethan most because the food is very similar tothat served in northern Germany where Iwas born.

The 6th F3C European Championshipwas very successful due to the hard work ofthe many contest officials coupled withalmost ideal weather. The competition was

well organised and run in a fair and friendlyatmosphere. The organisers went to greatlengths to assure that every participant washappy. As president of the FAI Jury I wouldlike to thank my fellow jurists Dr. GeorgBreiner (Austrian CIAM Delegate) and Mr.Sandy Pimenoff (CIAM President) for theirhelp. I also want to thank the hardestworking group, the FAI Judges: TobiasSchuk (Germany), Frits van Laar(Netherlands), Dag Eckhoff (Norway),

Riszard Witkowski(Poland) and Carl IngeLindberg (Sweden) for ajob well done. And finally,I thank the aero modellingdivision of the FinnishAeronautic Association,the staff of the Hyvarilaresort hotel and the manycontest officials for a mostmemorable competition.

Place Competitor Country Points1 Rössner, Joerg Germany 3000.002 Graber, Daniele Switzerland 2988.453 Hönle, Johann Germany 2820.354 Sperling, Jan Germany 2765.435 Kastiel, Efraim Israel 2744.606 Kessler, Patrick Switzerland 2697.287 Lucchi, Stefano Italy 2661.498 Nyegård, Micheal Denmark 2654.959 Nielsen, Kaj Henning Denmark 2642.69

10 Bexander, Lars Sweden 2615.59

Individual Winners left to right, Daniele Graber 2nd, Jörg Rössner 1st and

Johann Hönle 3rd. with their trophies at theclosing banquet

Contest site with FAIJudges on the left andhelipad on the right


FAI Areomodelling / SpacemodellingWorld Records homologated in 1996

Aeromodels:

No. 21 Class F3A, Aeroplane, Distance in a Straight Line, 737.9 km by Mr. R. Rosenthal, USA.; date of record 29.08.95

No. 31 Class F3A, Aeroplane, Distance in a Closed Circuit, 1,250 km by Mr. R. Rosenthal, USA.; date of record 21.06.95

No. 32a Class F1D, Free Flight Indoor, Ceiling cat. iv, 39 min. 19 secs. by Mr R. Randolph, USA.; date of record 21.01.96

No. 36 Class F3C, RC-Helicopter, Distance in Straight Line, 134.1 km by Mr. M. Farnan, Australia; date of record 03.06.96

No. 55 Class F3B, RC-Soaring, Speed in Closed Circuit, 121.1 km/h by Mr. Z. Vakkasov, Russia; date of record 02.07.96

No. 72 Class F5-SOL, RC-electro, Distance in Straight Line, 40km by Mr. D. Beck USA; date of record 24.08.96

Spacemodels:

No. 32 Class S9A, Gyrocopter Duration, 81 sec. by Mr. K. Przybytek, Poland; date of record 21.04.96

No. 33 Class S9B, Gyrocopter Duration, 125 sec. by Mr. K. Przybytek, Poland; date of record 21.04.96

NOTICEPlease be advised of two errors in Section 4d of the 1997 Sporting Code.

Page 216 Para. 9.11.5 Change “300” to “250”

Page 270 (Space Models World Cup) for S8E. Change the equation to read:

Competitor’s ScoreB= (10 + (LogA - LogN) X 100 X – – – – – –

Winner’s score

Christopher R. Geenwood, Secretary


THERE ARE SEVERAL REASONS whyyou might be interested in establishing aworld or AMA record. They includemaking the hobby more challenging,giving you pride of accomplishment,providing an opportunity to learn moreabout your sport and occasions for you toget together with friends, or familymembers, who have similar interests. Theprocess begins with matching yourinterests with the opportunities for records.Those opportunities come from the AMAfor national records and the FAI for worldrecords.

AMA or National Records can be foundin Model Aviation from time to time. Thelisting doesn’t appear in the table ofcontents but can be found immediatelyfollowing the “Focus on Competition”section. The February 97 issue had a list ofrecords as of October 1, l996. There aremany record categories with Indoor andOutdoor Free Flight having the most but Iwill be talking about is electric poweredand sailplane RC categories - the subjectsof RC Soaring Digest.

AMA Records According to AMA’s Steve Kaluf, the AMAis considering proposed recordclassifications for electric models. Thiscould open many new electric flightcategories for AMA members. Within thesailplane classification, the table belowdescribes the categories. Within eachgrouping is three records for the agecategories: Junior - under the age of 15years old Senior - at least 15 but less than 19 yearsold Open - 19 years or older

The requirements for AMA R/CSailplane Records are spelled out in theAMA Competition Regulations 1996 and1997, Rules for Governing Model Aviation

Competition in the United States (pages119-120) and records in general in theAMA Membership Manual for 1997 {page7) which was mailed out at the end of l996.

World (FAI) Records All world recordsare overseen by the FederationAeronautique lnternationale (FAI) locatedin Paris, France. They were originallyformed at the turn of the century to classifyand approve all world aviation records. Tohelp in the organisation, they delegatesame responsibilities to each countriesnational aero club. It is the responsibility ofeach national aero club to verify andsubmit world record applications to FAI.In the United States the NationalAeronautic Association is the national aeroclub. The NAA further delegates matters ofmodel aviation to the AMA who issuessalutions and handles all paper work

relative to model world records All threeorganisations are involved and each worldrecord aspirant has to join all threeorganisations. Fortunately AMA makes

this easy by providing an easy way to joinall three in a single payment.

World records do not have ageclassifications or size classifications butthere are several electric classifications. Toclassify as a model, the weight must be lessthan 11Ib. Some other limits aremaximum wing area 2325 in2 and under25.6 oz/ft2. The actual FAI records alongwith classifications are included in Worldand United States Aviation and SpaceRecords and Annual Report. This is a veryinteresting book of about 400 pages whichyou get by virtue of membership to NAA.You may have noticed an area on yourAMA membership renewal application forsigning up for NNA & FAI membership.On the NET you can see these worldrecords on the FAI web page:h t tp : / / i r r a .m ine s .u -nancy. f r / - f a i /aeromodeling/records

If you decide to go for a record, eitherAMA or FAI you will need a copy of theSporting Code. This book contains a list ofrequirements for your record attemptapplication. The Sporting Code was lastprinted in 1993. Models records arediscussed in Section 4a, Part 7. Theclassification numbers are shown in thetable on the next pageAs a directing official for my friend DaveBeck’s pending solar powered model

In Pursuit of AMA and World Records by Dave Beck and Lee Murray Appleton, Wisconsin, U.S.A.

Classification / Size A: HLG B: 2 Meter C: Standard D: Unlimited Duration - Scope Soaring J,S,O J,S,O J,S,O J,S,O Duration - Thermal J,S,O J,S,O J,S,O J,S,O Declared Distance J,S,O J,S,O J,SSO J,S,O Closed Course Distance J,S,O J,S,O J,S,O J,S,O Altitude J,S,O J,S70 J,S,O J,S,O Speed J,S,O J,S,O J,S,O J,S,O

Solar Solitude with (L-R) Jim Murray, Lee Murray, Dave Beck, Ted Elliot


records, we have some experience with this.After some unsuccessful attempts ataltitude records, we were successful atestablishing a 24.17 mile declared distancein a straight line (category 72). Thispending record is presently stalled at theNAA where, hopefully, it will eventually bepassed on to the FAI in Paris where it ishomologated (officially approval). Due to astaff shortage at the NAA, record attemptswere temporarily relegated to a lowerpriority.

Dave’s list of things which need to bedone to secure your world record 1. Join AMA 2. Join NAA (FAI) through AMA at a

reduced rate. 3 While joining the NAA, ask for the FAI

sporting stamp. The NAA will send acard with stamp which needs to bereferenced on a record dossier.

4. Determine what record you quest. 5. Get a support team consisting of a C.D.

(directing official for FAI), two qualifiedobservers (AMA members will do) andperhaps a back up pilot if that ispermitted in your task.

6. Write AMA and request a sanction forthat record. Specify the record in FAIterms i.e. F3E-72 for the solar powereddistance record. Each sanction costs $2and is good for the calendar year. Youwill receive an official looking certificatesuitable for framing, which expires theend of March to correspond with theend of AMA’s yearly insurance coverage.A second certificate will follow startingApril 1.

7. Notify AMA at least 48 hours in advanceof attempting your record. Also declarenecessary goals as outlined in theSporting Code. For example, startingand landing sites need to be declared fora distance record according to code.

8. The fun part ...you do the record. 9. Notify the AMA of your record within

the time limits cited in the Sporting

Code. Generally this is within 48 hours,but may be longer if on a weekend. TheAMA has a FAX on Demand service. Bydialling 1-800-500-3139 you canrequest the document number 311Application for Possible National R.CSailplane Record. You will have toprovide your FAX number.

10. Write your dossier in compliance withthe requirements of the Sporting Code.Send one original and two copies toAMA within one month of the flight.The original needs to have originalcalibration records, maps, etc. as well asother specific elements such as a drawingof the model, its weight, wing loading,span, etc. Check the list in the SportingCode.

11. According to the Sporting Code, recordscopies are to be submitted to FAI withintwo months of the record. This may be aproblem in the case of our recordbecause of personnel changes at AMAand NAA. We are hopeful that the FAIwill recognise extenuating circum-stances.

Other Suggestions 1. Talk to other record holders and get a

copy of their dossiers. Any dossier isavailable from the FAI for 250 FF ($40US). Some successful record flightdescriptions can be found on the FAIhome page mentioned earlier.

2. Acquire well in advance any specialisedequipment such as larger cells, guidanceequipment, altimeters which are neededfor your attempt.

3. Practice your skill and place yourselfand your model in the situation youwill face during the attempt? e.g. fly athigh altitude, practice finding yourplane after loosing sight of it undercontrolled conditions,

4. Calibrate any documentationequipment you will need for theattempt. Some calibration needs to beperformed within 12 months prior to

the record flight or 6 months after theflight. Considering the need to submitrecords within one month, do things inadvance.

5. Plan for the things you know willhappen during the course of yourattempt. List them and think throughhow these will be accomplished, such ascrossing a busy highway at a stop sign.

6. Select a plan which maximises the funyou will have in pursuit of your record.

By being prepared you can minimise thenumber of times you have to assemble yourteam. You can’t plan on them being availableevery weekend, so be prepared when theopportunity presents itself.ED: Detailed information regarding thesolar record is available at web site:http:i/home.cdsnet.net/~purple~your_cps/dbeck.htm

Task / Propulsion Unpowered S-Rechargeable P-Non- SOL-SOLAR COMBGlider Batteries Rechargeable Powered All

SourcesThermal Duration 24 59 65 71 77 Distance in a Straight line 25 60 66 72 78 Height (Altitude) 26 61 67 73 79 Speed 33 62 69 74 80 Distance in a Closed Circuit 34 63 69 75 81 Speed in a Closed Circuit 55 64 70 76 82

Dave Beck with Solar Solitude

John Beck (13) and Karen Beck (9). Bothhelped their dad with the solar plane project.

John documented many flights with thecamcorder, and joined his dad many times

when the plane was being flown. Even Johnhas flown Solar Solitude, as well as other

sailplanes in the beck family fleet.


The Spanish Aeromodelling Aeroclub(Fenda) offered to organise the 1997European Control Line Championshipsfor Spain. The FAI accepted this proposaland Fenda handed the organisation of theevent to Agrupacion Deportiva Aerosafa.What is Aerosafa?

AEROSAFA: A place where the fulfilmentof a hope turns into a duty.

THE BEGINNINGEvery club has its own history and we wantto tell you how we started off.

School and Sports ClubSome 17 years ago, a teacher at SagradaFamilia Primary School in Valladolid startedAEROSAFA. He wanted it to be aneducational initiative to motivate pupils'work. Years passed by and each time morepupils, ex-pupils, parents and competitionaeromodellers became part of the SportsClub to give shape to our present Aerosafa:a Sports Club and a Sports School.

The educational aim has gone beyond theschool walls and it has turned the fulfilmentof a hope - aeromodelling - into a real dutyto form champions.

This educational initiative has alreadyachieved some important successes: two ofits members have a professional career asAeronautical Engineers.

(Junta de Castilla y Leon)

Fundacion Municipal DeportivaThe two highest Sports institutions inValladolid: la Direccion General deDeportes de la Junta de Castilla y Leon(County Council) and la FundaciónMunicipal Deportiva del ExcelentisimoAyuntamiento (City Council) back up therevival of Aeromodelling as a competitionsport in the Castilian capital city. Sevenyears ago, la Fundacion MunicipalDeportiva built a flying site which could notbe put into use because of technicalproblems. Aerosafa kept searching for asolution and el Servicio Territorial deCultura de la Junta found the answer. AtCarretera Renedo km 3, some old facilitieswere refurbished to be used as a “Combat”site. These Combat Circles are probably theonly ones anywhere in the world that makeit possible to hold four combat eventssimultaneously.

Improvements continue to be made andnowadays the facilities can be countedamong the best in Europe, thanks to theeffort made by la Direccion General deDeportes de la Junta.

OUR ACTIVITIESEscuela Municipal for AeromodellingLa Fundacion Municipal de Deportes isdoing its best to promote all kinds of sports.It was quick to create la Escuela Municipal

for Aeromodelling (City School) underAerosafa’s management.

There are three and six month courses toput young people in contact with theexciting world of Aeromodelling as a Sport.

Young people from 10 to 16 enjoy twohours of practical model building and twohours of flying experience as the basis for thebeginners' programme.

Aeromodelling for University studentsand staff.El Servicio de Deportes of ValladolidUniversity under Aerosafa's guidancearranges aeromodelling courses forUniversity students, and the University staffare provided with the University SportCard.

The aim of the courses are to teach andpopularise the aeronautical knowledgeapplied to aeromodelling. They alsoencourage participants to build and fly anaeromodel and present the world ofaeromodelling as a sport giving theparticipants the opportunity to take part inlocal, regional or county competitions.

Aeromodelling campLa Direccion General de Deportes de laJunta de Castilla y Leon offers a wide varietyof summer activities under the name of“Young Summer”. Four years ago,Aeromodelling started to be one of theactivities offered in the programme. Youngpeople from all over the Castilla y Leon

FAI EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP forCONTROL LINE MODELS.

VALLADOLID 13-19 JULY 1997

Ready for the combatWe are showing the certificate of European Champions ’95 to the President

of the Castilla and León County Council (Junta de Castilla y León)

Editorial Staff, Aerosafa


County can take part in a SummerAeromodelling Camp.

Over a fortnight, more than fiftyyoungsters spend their holidays in adifferent way having fun resting andlearning. Aeromodelling learning andpractice blend with days in the countryside,educational activities and open-air activities,etc. We think it is a different method ofpopularising aeromodelling: a summer campin the City.

European ChampionshipAll these different activities and a largenumber of contests where Aerosafa takespart, or we are the organisers have given theclub enough experience to organise theimportant Control Line event in July '97:the European Championship for ControlLine Models for Junior and Seniorcompetitors in F2A, F2B, F2C and F2Dcategories, which will be held next 13-19July.

La Junta de Castilla y Leon, elAyllntamiento de Valladolid and Fenda arecarrying out a big effort to achieve theexpectations of a the large number ofcompetitors and supporters who will cometo Valladolid. The flying facilities are beingrefurbished; technical and financial mattersare being properly organised; accom-modation for the large number of attendantsis being arranged and the opening andclosing ceremonies, etc. are being organised.All these problems are being thoroughlydiscussed by the two Institutions and theyhave been working hard with Aerosafa’s helpsince the last European Championshipsfinished at Hradec Králove.

25,000 KmAerosafa has been present at high levelcompetitions for 4 years. We have been theClub which has sent more competitors to

National Competitions during this period oftime. We have also taken part in the ’95European Championship for Control LineModels at Hradec Kralove (Czech Republic)and in the ’96 World Championship forControl Line Models at Norrkopping(Sweden).

We know that having a good team readyto enter into competition is difficult andtough. As an example, we had to find themoney to build 118 planes last year. We alsohad the difficult task of making a name forthe club all over the world: so, we travelledmore than 25,000 km to take part indifferent events throughout Europe. Wewere present at County competitions,Opens, National and InternationalChampionships, Exhibitions and at someother minor contests. We have a veryenterprising spirit. Nowadays, Aerobatics and Combat are thecategories we practice mainly. Last season,we produced two Spanish Champions, twoSpanish Runners-up, three Third places andeight County Champions.

At the 1995 European Championships forControl Line Models one of our memberswon first place in F2D junior and he got thefourth place in the general classification.

OUR SPIRITThe artist’s brush and the warriors swordAerobatics and Combat. Art and Fight. Theartist brush and the warriors sword - as ourboys like to call F2B and F2D - are the twocharacteristics of this young club.

The artist’s brush.- AEROBATICS is themost artistic category in Control Line. Itinvolves co-ordination, accuracy andquietness. It means creating a group of lines,curves, corners and waves to form differentshapes. One has to treat the plane as apainter’s brush and draw on the sky.

The warriors sword.- COMBAT involves

skill, cat-likereflexes, ten-sion, attackand defence.It meansseeing with-out looking,touching andl e a v i n g ,chasing andflying away.One has to flyfaster than theclock andwait patientlyfor the right moment to attack. It is likefencing using a super-sonic sword, a planeflying at 140 km/h.

During the last two years F2C has becomeincreasingly strong among our members andso we achieved the third place in SpanishChampionship 1996.

That’s the way we areThat is the way our boys are: art and fight,quiet and tense, painters and warriors. Theydevote themselves to their hobby and thecompetition. They have all the necessaryrequirements: youth and mastery, presentand future, hopes and duties passion andquietness.

They have a future which started in thepast. They are the fulfilment of a hope. Theywork hard to carry out their secret hopes; lastyear, they worked for 8196 hours in theirhobby: Aeromodelling. Aerosafa meanspassion for flight They have their ownanthem which sums up what they feel:

I invite you to fly, to raise your life higher up. I invite you to fly and,stepping on the ground, look up. Higher up.

The medals obtained in the Spanish Final Championship ’96

Art and Sport

Participants in the International Open “Ciudad de Valladolid


AS A NEW BOY TO the post ofChairman of the Information andEducation Sub-committee of CIAM, Idecided that a fresh look at the aims ofthe committee was needed, and how bestto carry out those aims.

CIAM FlyerAs regards to the information side, this isextremely well covered by the annual pub-lication that you are at present reading.The ‘CIAM Flyer’, I think, provides goodreports of contests and championships,along with articles on promotional activi-ties from member national clubs and listsof current FAI model world records. Thereal problem with ‘CIAM Flyer’ is distrib-ution, are we getting it to the rightperson/-organisation, who do we want tosee it and to what end? At present about 30of the magazines, are given to each delegatewho attends the CIAM March meeting, forthem to take home and distribute, butwhere do they go? Here is a list of peopleand places I think should get a copy of theFlyer:- Chairman and secretary of otheraviation sections of your National AeroClub, Editors of your country’s modellingpress, Editors of your country’s sports avia-tion and commercial aviation press, Publicrelations departments of your country’smajor aviation companies and Sports,Aviation and Education GovernmentDepartments. The aim being to raise theprofile of our sport to a level that it richly

deserves. As each National Aero Clubarranges their affairs in different ways it isnot up to CIAM to tell you how to carryout this distribution but perhaps you couldensure that the Flyer is available to any per-son or organisation who you think wouldbenefit from having a copy.

Education QuestionnaireAs regards the education side of the sub-committee I decided that there was arequirement to find out more about theaviation education being carried outthroughout the world. To this end a simplequestionnaire was sent to every NationalAero Club which is affiliated to the FAIasking them to fill in and return. This samequestionnaire was also sent to personsnominated by their national model club ashaving interests in model education. In allover 90 questionnaires were sent out. Thereplies at first were extremely disappointingwith only six responding, so three monthsafter the original posting a second postingwas made with a time limit set on the reply.After that we received another 20 replies. The range of the reply is quite startling,some countries, all be it a small number,have fully integrated aviation educationprogrammes others have no educationinput at all. It is also interesting to notethat of the national aero clubs who havenot replied they tend to be the ones wherethe modelling section is run as a separateorganisation. Does this mean that the

national aero club does not know what itsvarious sections are doing or may be theydo not care?

When all the information from the ques-tionnaire and other sources has beenlooked into we will be able to make recom-mendations on how to help the nationalaero clubs, model aircraft clubs and indi-viduals who wish to run their owneducation programme. It is hoped to pro-duce a “file” of information, such assuitable model designs and plans whichwill help to aid the introduction of a prac-tical education scheme, without therequirement of the organiser to producenew material.

Education schemes from around the World. Good Model Aviation Education schemesare in operation in various parts of theworld and below are a number of out-standing ones that have come to myattention in the past 12 months.

The South African Airways programmehas now been running for two years, spon-sored by SAA itself along with Rolls Royceand Airbus Industries. The programme hasits own portable class room on the back ofa truck and travels to schools where stu-dents are instructed on building and flyinga version of the AMA Delta Dart, shownhow aircraft fly and the work prospectsavailable in the civil aviation industry.Investigations six weeks after the visit of

INFORMATION & EDUCATION WHICH WAY SHOULD WE GO?

by Mike Colling.

The winning Humberside University ‘A’ model at the BMFAUniversity Challenge Event.

Making Humberside University ‘B’ model ready for ‘A Big Lift Flight’at the BMFA University Challenge Event.


the truck has shown that over 60% of allmodels built are still with the owner.

Over on the West of America, theBoeing Employees Aerodynamics ModelSociety (BEAMS) are again using the AMADelta Dart as well as other designs at spe-cial events run in the Boeingmanufacturing plant and also at events upto 350miles away. For instance they ran abuild and fly event that attracted dozens ofyoungsters, some travelling over 100milesto be at the Indoor World Championshipsheld at Moscow, Idaho . They had a ball!

In New South Wales, Australia, theyhave a programme called “The Basics ofAviation through Model Aviation”. They

have 50 volunteerswho visit schoolsand youth organisa-tions and give a 30minute talk onwhat building andflying is all aboutand how it can leadto jobs inEngineering andTechnology. Theprogramme hasbeen in operationfor 4years and it isnow planned to

expand to the rest ofthe country.

The Deutscher ( German ) Aero Clubhas a fully integrated education pro-gramme with lists of books, leaflets andvideos that can be used by schools andyouth organisations. They also run modelflying contests for youngsters and seminarsfor teachers.

In Britain the education programme runby the British Model Flying Association isstill expanding slowly. The contest runespecially for universities, where studentsdesign, build and fly a radio controlledmodel which is built to exacting rules tolift a heavy payload, has now run for itssecond year with a significant increase incompetitors.

In Hungary, aviation is part of thenational education curriculum and is cov-ered at three specific levels. Each level listsboth theoretical and practical subject mat-ter to be covered. Beginners models aremade of card, with advanced designs beinghand launch gliders with built up wingsand tow line gliders with Jedelski wings.

Israel and Turkey both have aviation ontheir national education curriculum anduse models in executing that curriculum.

Pen FriendMost national aero clubs indicated on thequestionnaire that they would like to takepart in a pen friend scheme for young avi-ation enthusiasts, but the problem is, howto run the scheme with little finance andwho will run it. If the reader has any ideasplease let it be known.

Young new recruits are the life blood ofany sport, and model flying is no excep-tion. The difference lies in the fact thatwhere football, golf and athletics may befine in their own right, they do little totrain youngsters for this modern age.Where as model building and flying issuch, that it can help in giving skills whichcan help in the furtherance of a career inaviation, engineering or other high tech.industries. Please help a youngster today.

Youngsters at the Indoor World Championships building AMA Cubs(Delta Darts)

Group photo call before the BEAMS mass launch at the Indoor World Champsionship in Moscow, Idaho


The endeavours and efforts ofindividuals within theCommittee for Rocket Modelling

Aeronautical Association of Slovenia aswell as the Astronautics Rocket ClubV.M. Komarov from Ljubljana, wererewarded with success. We organized theWorld Championship of RocketModellers for juniors and seniors - ademanding project which exceeded allprevious ones because of the number ofparticipants. The wishes of many Slovenianrocket modellers came true when we were awarded the bid for the 1996Championships

The patron of the event was thePresident of the Slovenian Republik, Mr.Milan Kucan. A record number ofcompetitors, team managers and refereesfrom 22 states were involved in theChampionship. Such a response indicatesthe growth of the sport, world over.

So large was the event that we had tobuild a settlement with 26 headquarters’tents for all representatives, fororganisational needs, main sponsors andreferees on the rocket range. We also had tobuild a field kitchen and dining room, astage for ceremonies, and we had to equip46 starting places with launching deviceswhere the work of approximately 100time-keepers, referees and members of thejury performed their duties. There weretwo separate rocket ranges wheresimultaneously competitions in sevencategories were performed. Every day, therewas transport for participants and refereeswhich had to be organised from Ljubljana

to Kamnik and return, as well, as meals tobe prepared and served on the competitionfield. The entire organisation of thechampionship was built-on a completelyvolunteer basis. The organisationalcommittee succeeded in getting enoughenthusiasts from local teachers of technicaleducation and modellers to complete theproject. Some also came from abroad andassisted in helping with the championship.

Such a big event could not havehappened without the support of sponsorsbecause of the need for considerablefinancial help. The main sponsors of thechampionship were the company UHUGmbH from Germany and its generalrepresentativein Slovenia,UNIHEM doo,from Ljubljana;both have sup-ported the deve-lopment ofrocket model-ling in Sloveniaas well as thetechnical de-v e l o p m e n tgenerally. Theyare also the sponsors of the Slovene stateteam.

The Ministry of Defence assisted inbuilding the camp, but this help was notenough to complete the task and localmodellers gave up their preparation time tohelp prepare the site.

Engine testing was taken over by thefirm Mach from Loka at Zidani, producers

of model rocket motors andmodels. Helping in this taskwas Mr. Taborski from theCzech Republic who provideda testing device andprogramme computer. As aresult testing of all types ofmodel motors which wereused at the championship wasperformed.

Altitude measuring in thecategories S1B and S5C,which had been questioned at

almost all previous championships, wasperformed correctly by the professionals ofthe Geodetic Office of the Republic ofSlovenia and the firm Geoservis. Forcomupter processing of data, the firmSINEL was used. Catering was provided bythe personnel from the restaurant‘Discovery.’

The opening ceremony was in the centreof Kamnik and will remain in the pleasantmemories of all participants. The parade bythe participants of the Championship inthe streets of Kamnik and the celebrationin the main place were accompanied by agreat number of visitors of the festival innational costumes, which took place inKamnik at the same time. This wasattractive in appearance and flights ofmotor kites over the ceremony made iteven more interesting.

After the opening ceremony thecompetition began in very good weather.

Slovene competitors got five medals, onegold and four silver. The best success wasachieved by Toma` Kogej, from Leszno,member of ARK Komarov, who defendedthe championship with a record flight of1244m. In the junior category S1B altitudethe second place was achieved by hisclubmate Jernej Vrtarnik with 807m. Ourbest placed competitor was Marjan Cudenwith seventh place. First place was achievedby a Russian, Oleg Voronov. We haveproven for some time that we are able toproduce excellent models which exceedmeasurable altitute. This situation was alsotrue this year as Andrej Vrbec, among theyouth, and Jose Cuden and Matja` Porunfailed to gain results.

The young ones were excellent also inS6A where Igor Stricelj from ARK Vega gota silver medal. The same result was

11th World Championship ofRocket ModellersLjubljana/Kamnik, 7-14.9.1996Anton Sijanec


achieved by the team which was made upof Matevz Dular (6) and Toma` Kogej(18). Our members did not achieve thebest results in the branch in which we havehad traditionally had good results; howeverthey took a good fifth place. Surprisingly.the Spanish model-maker, Neus Misse, gotthe first place beating the Czech JaromieChalupo and Russian Oleg Voronov.

A medal was expected in RC-rocketgliders (S8E) where for the first time wehad an excellent team. Junior teammembers Crtomir Nagode, Ivan Turk andBlaz Grgic performed their task well andtook an excellent second place after thefavoured Slovaks. Among the individuals,Nagode just missed a medal in the exciting"fly-off", and took a less enviable fourthplace. The same thing happened to BogoStempihar who, together with Bogdan

Makuc and Ales Musec took the fifth placeamong the teams. Medals were won by theGerman Franz Weissgerber, gold, theSlovak Stefan Mokran, silver and AmericanGeroge Gassaway, bronze.

Slovene members appeared for the firsttime in S5C scale altitude with three,precisely made Nike Cajuns’ models. Theywere, according to the statical evaluations,right behind the best ones and theirprospects were good before the flights. JoseCuden and Miha Kozjak performed twoexcellent two-stage flights, but the judgesonly measured the first one. Additionally,Mateja Kozjak did not have much luck asshe could not start the second step. At last,Jose Cuden took seventh place. The samewas achieved by the team.The best flight wasachieved by the AmericanKreutz with the modelSergeant Hydac, and heachieved the title of theworld champion. Secondand third places were takenby the Russians Minakovand Iljin, both with Taurusand Tomahawk modelsrespectively.

In ‘rockets with para-chutes,’ we did not comenear to previous achieve-ments. Here, ithas to be emphasized that the members didnot appear in the entire competition. Theconditions on the second rocket stageenabled extraordinarily long flights whichwere a marathon "fly-off" for the referees.The referees stopped their stopwatchesafter more than one hour of careful timingof the Japanese, Suzuki, who aloneremained in the air. After him, therefollowed the German Brwek and RussianSmatov. Among the juniors, was thesurprising Spaniard Palau who flew inextraordinary conditions during his "fly-off". Among our competitors we shouldpraise Andrej Vrbec who took 14th place.He was also successfull in rocket-gliders(S4B) where he was also fourteenth. In thiscategory, our team did not repeat theachievement of two years ago when we gotthe silver medal. Due to a tight timeschedule they appeared with reservemodels. The result of which was belowexpectations. The world champion becamethe Russian Mencikov. He also hadpreviously won a cup which was deliveredto him by one of the living pioneers ofrocketry, Karl Neubronner.

The day which was meant for rest and atrip to Bled and Bohinj was used by amajority of participants to compete inworld cup events. In the ARK Komarov,they did not want to interrupt the traditionof every year holding an FAI-competitionfor the Ljubljana cup and so they

participated in competitionsfor the world cup in S6A andS8E, where a record numberof competitors appeared. Forrockets with ribbons, therewas Edgar Konstantinovicsin the first place. Second andthird places were taken bythe Yugoslavs Ducak and R.Katanic. Among the 35competitors who tried to gettraditional Ljubljana ‘drag-ons’ in RV rocket-planes,was Slovak Mokran (first).

Second was the Pole Moczala and thirdAmerican McKiou.

As it is traditional in rocket compet-itions, on the last day there is the “Royal”branch of the space models S7 scalemodels. In summary, the first places weretaken by the same names as at the lastchampionships. The differences in pointsamong the winners were minimal. So, thewinner was defined by his flight. With alittle luck, gold was achieved by JanKotuha from Slovakia, the American

The last start of the 11th WSMC was thelaunching of the scale model of a V2, made bythe boys from ARK Komarov Ljubljana club.

It was also the biggest model at th 11thWSMC


Bledron and Latuian Baca had to besatisfied with lesser medals. Ourcompetitors did not take part in thisbranch. When looking at the events of thechampionship, we can be more thansatisfied with the results. The organisationof the championship was successful. Weaquired several sponsors and last but notleast, we have the five medals which we didnot expect because of being involved inthe organisation of the event.

Launching site during the action in category S1B altitude

Open air stage for medal presentations

Junior Tomaz Kogej (Slovenia) wins the titleof world champion for the second time up onstage with Jernei Vrtacnik (second) (Slovenia)

and Shi Qui (Third) (China).

ResultsS1B SeniorsPlace Name Country1. Oleg Voronov Rus2. Robert Kreutz USA3. Alenksey Koriapine Rus

S3A Seniors1. Takashi Suzuki Jap2. Uwe Brewka Ger3. Igor Shmatov Rus

S4B Seniors1. Vladimir Menchikov Rus2. Jan Pikl Cze3. Sascha Steinbeck Ger

S6A Seniors1. Neus Misse Esp2. Jaromir Chalupa Cze3. Oleg Voronov Rus

S8E Seniors1. Franz Weissgerber Ger2. Stefan Mokran Svk3. George Gassaway USA

S5C Seniors1. Robert Freutz USA2. Vladimir Minakov Rus3. Sergey Iliyne Rus

S1B Juniors1. Tomaz Kogej Slo2. Jernej Vrtacnik Slo3. Shi Qi Chn

S3A Juniors1. Andreu Palau Esp2. Ivan Ouliskov Rus3. Agnius Sluckus Ltu

S6A Juniors1. Dragana Cudic Yug2. Igor Stricelj Slo3. Bartosz Boniecki Pol

S8E Juniors1. Martin Hudak Svk2. Igor Hudak Svk3. Lukas Herman Cze

S4B Juniors1. Algimantas Deikus Ltu2. Marius Costache Rom3. Segey Karpushov Rus

S5C Juniors1. Ivan Ouliskov Rus2. Radoslav Hudec Svk3. Lukas Herman Cze

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