FÉDÉRATION AÉRONAUTIQUE INTERNATIONALE |
SVERIGES MODELLFLYGFÖRBUND |
THE CONTROL LINE MODEL AIRPLANE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 1996
took place July 22 to July 28 in Norrköping, Sweden.
What is Control Line Model Flying?
This turned out to be the largest ever
championships event in any airsport!
Over 700 people were
listed as entered competitors, team managers, helpers, supporters, judges
and officials.
There were exactly 300 entries (excluding team
managers) from 33 countries. Of these, 30 were juniors.
Through an on-site internet connection, newsbriefs from the contest were
issued, and e-mail information was relayed between the competitors and
their home supporters. This was the first time Internet was used at an
Aeromodelling World Championships
Introduction, July 16 | On Site report #1, July 19 | On Site report #2, July 21 | On Site report #3, July 25 | On Site report #4, July 27, morning
Final Results (Web Document)
Complete Official Final Results (Word Document)
As a self-extracting Word for Windows 2.0 file, September 28. (Instructions and font files included. Size 200 kb. Load the file into a suitable directory on your disk and execute it.) A Word file viewer can be fetched from here if you haven't Word installed.Contest Organisation
Followup, October 12
Percy Attfield's roundup, Notes from the seminars.
Mystery Pictures from a roll of film found
on the site.
The site was Bråvalla, a former Air Force base, a few kilometres to the west of the city. The preliminary site layout.
Some of the background:
The terms and conditions were approved by the FAI CIAM Bureau in January. Check the Official Bulletins No. 1 (Feb 7), No. 2 (Apr 19) and No. 3 (Jun 11). Last pre-champs update (July 14).
The World Championships logotype in full resolution (33k).