Technical Notice | F4 Scale

A revised version of the 2011 edition of the F4 Scale Code was published on 25 January.

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Technical Notice | F3 Soaring

A revised version of the 2011 edition of the F3 Soaring Code was published on 18 January.

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CIAM Flyer 06-2010 : The Microcopter – An Exotic Member of the Model Aircraft Family

The mechanical system of the microcopter is ingeniously simple: absolutely nothing rotates apart from the rotors! Therefore a light crash on grass usually means only the propellers have to be replaced.

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CIAM Championships : call for bid applications

Click here to browse the list of the bids open for the CIAM World and Continental Championships (2012-2015).

Hauk gives a last Aeromusicals performance before bowing out of talent show

Czech Aeromusicals pilot Martin Hauk made his exit from Czech and Slovakian talent show “Talentmania” in the final last Sunday.

2010 Space Models World Cup - Preliminary Results after all Scheduled Contests

There were scheduled 24 Space Models World Cup events on the FAI Contest Calendar 2010 - Space Models. In these events participated competitors from 25 countries from America, Asia and Europe: USA, Canada, Great Britain, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia, Romania, Bulgaria, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.Organizers were 16 countries in America, Asia and Europe.

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AeroMusicals pilot shines at talent show

Czech AeroMusicals pilot and competitor Martin Hauk is creating a stir on Talentmania, the talent show of TV Nova, the most popular Czech TV channel, and Markiza, a Slovak TV channel.

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New Space Models World Records

Vladimir Khokhlov from Russia has surpassed FOUR World Records in classes S6A, S9A, S9B and S9C at the Space Models international events held in Marijampole (LTU), Dubnica nad Vahom (SVK) and Shostka (UKR) this year. These of his achievements deserve our sincere congratulations and are at the same time challenges for other sportsmen to achieve extraordinary results. FAI has ratified these results and an appropriate information was sent to NACs on October 5, 2010.

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Invitation for the 32rd Ljubljana Cup - Final SM World Cup Event in 2010

Ljubljana Cup is no doubt the oldest spacemodelling event contineously organized in the world. It is a real spacemodelling festivity in October every year that gathers dozens of sportsmen from 10 to 12 European countries and resambles in a way European Championships. It is well known for wonderful sportsmenship and excellent results. In the attachment is the Bulletin for this final SM event in 2010 that will be organized at Menges flying field near Kamnik, close to Ljubljana (SLO) from 8th to 10th October, 2010.

Best Spacemodellers after the 2010 FAI World Championships for Space Models

There were organized eighteen FAI World Championships for Space Models since 1972, when the first one took place in Vrsac (now Serbia - Yugoslavia at that time). Thousands of sportsmen competed at first in three classes, which were increased to seven and eight, than in 2008 decreased to five and now again it is eight again. Junior SM World Championships are held simultaneously with those for seniors in equivalent classes.

Who are the most successful sportsmen in World Championships so far?

Only four men took the fist place FOUR times. These are:

Jan Kotuha (SVK),
Fritz Weissgerber (GER),
Antonio Mazzaracchio (ITA) and
Alexander Levikh (RUS).

The best of the best after the 18th WSMCh is:

ANTONIO MAZZARACCHIO (ITA)

He in addition to four gold medals holds also two silver and one bronze medal. He was awarded with two golds in last Champs in Irig (Serbia) and was declared the best senior individual of the 18th WSMCh.

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