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Issue No 9 - March 1999 US$ 3.00 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), Avenue Mon-Repos 24, CH - 1005 Lausanne, Switzerland. Tel: +41-21-345-1070 Fax: +41-21-345-1077 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 ciamf3j@ciamf3j.demon.co.uk 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. 2 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. CIAM FLYER March ’99 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 CIAM FLYER March ’99 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) 3 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 4 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. CIAM FLYER March ’99 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 CIAM FLYER March ’99 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. 5 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 6 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 CIAM FLYER March ’99 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 CIAM FLYER March ’99 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 8 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 CIAM FLYER March ’99 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. CIAM FLYER March ’99 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: Nlaca@p8.little.fido.hu 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: mike@skyhi.u-net.com and I will try and get it in to the next edition of CIAM Flyer. Till next time. 9 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 10 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 CIAM FLYER March ’99 CIAM FLYER March ’99 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 11 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. 12 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 CIAM FLYER March ’99 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 CIAM FLYER March ’99 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 13 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 14 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. CIAM FLYER March ’99 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 CIAM FLYER March ’99 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. 15 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. 16 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 CIAM FLYER March ’99 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. CIAM FLYER March ’99 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. 17 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. 18 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 CIAM FLYER March ’99 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. CIAM FLYER 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 19 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. 20 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. CIAM FLYER March ’99 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. 21 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 22 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 23 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. 24 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. CIAM FLYER March ’99 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 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 6 4 4 4 3 2 2 1 1 1 - / / / / / / / / / / / / / 3 2 7 4 3 2 1 2 2 1 / / / / / / / / / / / / / 5 4 3 4 1 2 3 1 2 1 - Miilan Jelinek (Slovakia). FAI JURY: PRESIDENT: Srdjan D. Pelagic (Yugoslavia) MEMBERS: Pawel Wlodarczyk (Poland), Marius Conu (Romania) - (reserve for Werner Groth Germany). 25 “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 26 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. 27 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 28 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 CIAM FLYER March ’99 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: CIAM FLYER March ’99 by Pawel Wlodarczyk Michal Ordon - World Vice Champion in F2A and Rafal Kucharski placed 4th in F2B. 29 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 30 Total 25 22 In the World Spacemodelling Championships (Rumunia 16 Suceava) juniors of Poland won 9 medals. On the picture: 22 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 28 28 28 84 186 CIAM FLYER March ’99 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: Nlaca@p8.little.fido.hu 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 CIAM FLYER March ’99 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. 31 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 32 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 CIAM FLYER March ’99