Wakefield CupThe first competition for the oldest trophy in international aeromodelling, the Wakefield Cup, was held on September 29 1928. September 2008 thus marks the 80th anniversary of this trophy for free flight rubber powered aircraft, which is now awarded at World Championships for category F1B.
A full history of the Wakefield Cup, starting with the first Cup donated by Lord Wakefield in 1911, was written by Charles Dennis Rushing and has been made available in electronic form in the free flight section of this web site
http://www.fai.org/aeromodelling/freeflight/wakefield

Since the revised set of rules for the F2B category was set in force in 2006, a level of acceptance and reliability has been reached. A period of calm and stability is now of great importance for competitors and organisers.

While current practices in this area have served us well in the past, further efforts must be undertaken to ensure that the future implementation of both judging and scoring complies with the precepts of equality, fairness and accuracy with respect to both the individual competitor, from competitor to competitor within a given competition and to the human factors governing the physical act of judging.

In order to provide the F2B community with improved tools for all aspects of judging and scoring, the F2B Working Group has now formed a committee of experts to examine Judging and Scoring as a holistic entity with recommendations being vetted for compliance with the precepts stated above.

Click here to download the overall 2008 Space Modelling World Cup results and rankings for the first 19 events held so far this year.

It is with great sadness that I have to inform you that Hartmut NEUFFER died on 1st June in a traffic accident.

Hartmut was member of the Radio Controlled Air Balloon International Committee of which I am in charge.

He always provided us with very useful inputs to support the development of our activity. His involvement in the Hot Air Balloon activities was recognized by all balloonists. A huge loss.

Marcel PREVOTAT
CIAM F7 Chairman

The F3 Helicopter Sub-committee has discovered that the current time limit of 10 minutes for Manoeuvre Schedule "C" is inadequate. (Annex D, F3C Manoeuvre Descriptions and Diagrams in the 2008 edition of the F3 Helicopter volume of the FAI Sporting Code.)

On the recommendation of the F3 Helicopter Sub-committee Chairman, the CIAM Bureau has agreed that a local rule to increase the time limit by one minute to 11 minutes for the completion of Manoeuvre Schedule C be applied at the 2008 Asia Oceanic and European Championships. It is also recommended that this local rule be applied at all other 2008 F3C competitions.

Mrs Jo Halman
CIAM Technical Secretary