26 Aug 2015
The desire to freely move around in the third dimension of the airspace around us is probably as old as mankind itself. Every day, we see the birds doing it. Once the first humans conquered the art of flying, they soon wanted to make the most of this new freedom and began to experiment with...
06 Sep 2016
Let us look back 45 years on the 6 September 1970 and recall an FAI World Record in Gain in Altitude for Aeromodelling and Spacemodelling (Class F) that has not been broken since. On that day, the American Maynard Luther Hill set the record in Gain in Altitude for Radio Control Flight Aeroplane,...
20 Nov 2015
Gliding down the slope – human beings had dreamed about it for almost a million of years. Aeromodellers use the lift generated by the wind uphill for hundred years now, but model aircrafts with reliable magnet steering devices for a stable free flight had first been introduced by the German Hans...
08 Jan 2016
Anyone building a model aeroplane usually does this in isolation, i.e. alone and in their own workshop. This means that exchanges of experience directly on the object and encouragement from role models are rare. Imagination and ideas required Joint targets and realising them through teamwork are...
26 Feb 2016
The FAI F4 class links the community of scale aeromodellers in indoor and outdoor classes. Free flight scale – a Builder class To some modellers accustomed to using the advancing technology associated with radio controlled flight, the idea of operating a model without these controls may seem...
18 Apr 2016
The 2016 Plenary Meeting of the FAI Aeromodelling Commission (CIAM) was held from 08 – 09 April 2016 in Lausanne, Switzerland. The meeting took place in the Hotel Mövenpick in Ouchy. 41 Members were represented at this meeting. Please find below the main decisions and discussions during the meeting...
