FAI Aeromodelling Commission (CIAM)

As part of an anniversary celebration of Switzerland's largest aviation sports association, small model aircraft were built and flown with boys and girls with disabilities. This event was supported by aeromodellers from various clubs in the region.

Why the Czech Raketomodelářský Klub Krupka (RMK) has so many European and World Champions – including in the junior class, by Hans Langenhagen.

The club is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2022 and members can look back on a successful half century of rocket model sports. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia separated into two countries, the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic. Factories closed and people had to reorientate themselves in a labour market that was only slowly re-emerging. Many clubs did not survive this process.

A fourteen-year-old pilot from Korea has won the FAI Drone Racing World Cup. MinJae Kim, who fell in love with drones in elementary school, has devoted all his spare time to drone racing and even moved to the city of Hwaseong-si in Gyeonggi province to practice his sport.

Those engaging in sports such as hiking, climbing or sailing on their own – i.e. not competitively, are hardly likely to join a sporting organisation. For competitive sports, however, important principles such as equal opportunities, in other words a "level playing field", apply. These principles are implemented through what we call rules, laid down in sets of rules or regulations.

When “Grandpa Flieger” had his grandchildren to visit, he wasn’t sure how best to entertain them. But as a model pilot and educator, an idea sprang to mind: tinkering with beginner model aircraft, to grasp the basics of aviation!

Swiss aeromodeller Andreas Lüthi took a gold medal at the 2022 FAI F4 World Championships For Scale Model Aircraft in Norway with his Bücker Jungmann 1.131E in the F4C category. In this interview he reveals his journey in aeromodelling and shares his thoughts on attracting the next generation to the sport.