F3A World Championship Avignon, France 1987. 1) Hanno Prettner Austria

[@stevendegiorgio3143]

I miss those times.F3A is my favorite type of R/C competition flying.I just found out from the AMA that we just lost Don Lowe.He passed away this week in 2024.He was just one of the many guys I looked up to while learning to fly R/C and building my first pattern ship.(bridi UFO).

[@asommer518]

A friend of mine who competes in F3A Masters wrote this about Don Lowe "Just think about that. He was born in 1925, served in WW2 flying many of the classic planes, was an aeronautical engineer and did drone work for the military, retired to Florida in the early 80's when I met him (and that was after the design of the Phoenix 😎. Continued to fly pattern into the nineties and designed the P-9 for turnaround. I last saw him fly a big Laser in the 2000's. I'm pretty sure he was over 90 when I last saw him visiting at a RCACF contest and we discussed airplane design. Still quite lucid. He was AMA prez for a few years starting in the middle 1980s. A good friend, always fun to be around and will be missed."

[@barrybudd]

Wonderful memories. I was fortunately to see Hanno fly on a number of occasions both under competition rules and also in free style shows. He was a brilliant flyer and such a nice guy.

[@sunillobo4352]

Hanno an amazing flier!

[@huto9606]

Hanno war schon der beste Pilot mit den besten Modellen seiner Zeit!

[@mrweed8161]

Thanks for posting this, I was fortunate enough to be there.

[@bestofwilhelm8021]

Was there too! :-)

[@MichaelOlivera-pn9sb]

Unique....love to watch pression maneuvers..pattern planes have a few Stream line models myself one called super Beatle...! 👍❤❤❤

[@aeromodelisme45]

Super ! toute une époque

[@mikesimpson5259]

Hanno is a legend 👌

[@Gusst210]

La voltige de cette époque beaucoup plus rapide des vols tendus un programme de voltige bien différent des AVIONS qui ressemblaient a des avions. Avec des 10 , 20 cc. Avec résonateurs accordés Une très très belle catégorie et dire que a l'époque les Prettner. Laffitte, Bertollani Malfait , Matt et bien d'autres étaient pris pour des modélistes pratiquants le gigantisme .... Quand nous voyons tois les modèles de nos jours de C.P.L.R. et tous les autres ...les avions sont bien différents notamment sur le plan aérodynamique et surtout en taille . personnellement Je préfère l'époque. Des multis Mais. Juste mon avis ...

[@shellyredworth6459]

superb as that flight was,call me pickey but as a former GBRCAA judge those stall turns were 'wing overs' and thus should have been zeroed!

[@ahtiyliriesto2043]

Sorry! The camera waves. The wind was difficult. Hanno was the best.

[@solentlifeuk]

Sorry Shelley .. but Hanno was the best and I met him. I also knew Binks who didn't have a snowball in hell chance of matching Hanno's skill. Hanno's flying was 'precision' to the nth degree.

[@cllaurit]

Hanno was "the man"!

[@ahtiyliriesto2043]

Yes he is! "the man".

[@SouthernPrinceKenny]

Is a MK Kato Curare 60 the exact same thing as a MK Curare 60? My favorite pattern ship in the universe!!!!

[@ahtiyliriesto2043]

f3a.no/Historien/WC/WC%201987,%20France.pdf

[@osanshouo1684]

Not a judge, but seems lacking a lot of maneuvers.