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20 years Hacker Motor GmbH

On saturday, 23rd of March, Mr. Hacker invited to his 20-year-jubilee of Hacker Motor in Ergolding.

A great event with famous guests, interesting guids through the company and an exhibition of their projects in RC-business and industry made this day to one of the highlights in 2019.
Even the weather was perfect with a deep blue sky and warm temperatures, maybe also a merit of the past 20 years.

What started in the loft of his families´ house is nowadays a mid-sized company with almost 40 employees and projects around the world.

For more than 10 years I am Pilot for Hacker Motor. Since my beginning I trusted in the products from Bavaria. When I look back, that was probably my best decision I made in my rc-career. I am more than proud to be part of this team since that long time.

For some time Hacker Motor is also the exclusive distributor in Europe for my RT DESIGN models- nothing better could happen to me!

At this jubilee last week we took the chance to introduce my latest design coming this summer the market:  Acrostar mk2 XL – the big brother of our 6S successor came to the market last year.

(More information about this plane coming soon.)

Again congratulations to Rainer Hacker for 20 years of Hacker Motor GmbH!
I´m looking forward to the next 20 😉

RT ULTRAmate 2019 edition

After the huge success with RT ULTRAmate EPP in the past year I really wanted to present a colorscheme for this foamy which means so much to me and is part of my aeromodelling story!

We realized the scheme of my legendary 2,85m Ultimate, which I flew many years on airshow with great fun and good promotion for myself.

ULTRAmate 2019 edition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vucYnl7xSd8

Robin Trumpp zu Gast bei Scheich Hamdan, Kronprinz von Dubai 

Vom 23. bis 26. Februar fanden die ersten Dubai RC Masters im Wüstenemirat Dubai am Persischen Golf statt. Unter den vielen Piloten und Verantwortlichen auch ein Deutscher, Robin Trumpp vom MFC Untermünkheim.
Nicht nur in Europa, Asien und Australien ist sein Wissen und seine Erfahrung gefragt. Tareq Alsaadi, einer der besten Helikopterpiloten der Welt und Freund des Kronprinzen, wollte das Knowhow von Robin Trumpp beim ersten Modellflug-Wettbewerb überhaupt in Dubai, dabeihaben. Hier nicht als teilnehmender Pilot, sondern vielmehr als Juror für faire Meisterschaften der Golfstaaten – mit Piloten aus Kuwait, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabien u.a.
Schnell wurde im Vorfeld der Masters klar, dass das Event noch keine optimale Organisation aufwies. Kurzerhand wurde Robin Trumpp die sportliche Leitung des Events übertragen, dass unter der Schirmherrschaft von Kronprinz Scheich Hamdan bin Muhammad Al Maktum, der zugleich auch Vorsitzender des Dubai Sportrats ist, stattfand. Trumpp war also für die Klassen Jet- und Propellerkunstflug zuständig.
Die Helikopter-Kunstflug-Klasse, die gleichzeitig mit ausgetragen wurde, war sogar international ausgeschrieben, so dass sich die besten Helipiloten der Welt messen konnten.
Für alle Klassen wurde insgesamt ein Preisgeld von knapp 30.000 USD ausgeschüttet.

Neben Robin Trumpp war zusätzlich der Spanier Emilio Canovas als Juror eingeladen. Jedoch mit nur zwei Wertern kann ein solches Event nicht ausgetragen werden, was den Veranstaltern wohl nicht bekannt war. Glücklicherweise war F3A-Weltmeister, Tetsuo Onda aus Japan, als Helfer eines Helipiloten vor Ort. Schnell konnte er nach einem kurzen Gespräch mit Trumpp als 3. Jurymitglied für den Wettbewerb verpflichtet werden. Damit konnten das Event gestartet werden.

Am Samstag fand eine große Eröffnungsfeier statt, bei der auch Scheich Hamdan anwesend war, er begrüßte alle Teilnehmer und Anwesende.

Am Sonntag und Montag wurden die Vorrunden ausgetragen; morgens die Helikopter, mittags die Propellerflugzeuge und anschließend die Jets. Auch hier zeigte sich, dass noch etwas Organisationstalent einzubringen war, denn es gab kein Auswertungsprogramm für die Wettbewerbe. Zum Glück konnte Robin Trumpp nach den Wertungsflügen ein Excel-Auswertungsprogramm erstellen, damit auch eine Rangliste veröffentlicht werden konnte. Die jeweils 5 besten Piloten einer Klasse qualifizierten sich für das Finale.

Am Dienstagabend ging das Event bei einer schönen Abschlussfeier mit einer tollen und beeindruckenden Drohnen-Show zu Ende. Und schon am nächsten Tag ging Trumpp´s Flug mit einem A380 wieder zurück nach Frankfurt. Bilder und Eindrücke von der Reise gibt es auf der Website von Trumpp: www.robin-trumpp.de

Ein Statement von Robin Trumpp zum Event: „Ich hatte eine tolle Zeit in Dubai, bei herrlichem Wetter, mit jeder Menge Spaß. Es ist schön zu sehen und zu erleben, dass Gemeinschaft und der besondere Spirit unter Modellfliegern weltweit gleichermaßen gelebt wird, egal wo man sich gerade befindet. Auch oder gerade in Dubai, wo es so scheint, als ob Geld keine Grenzen mehr setzen könnte. Ich komme aus Dubai zurück, mit vielen tollen Erlebnissen und Begegnungen mit wunderbaren Menschen, die mein Hobby teilen, die mich mit offenen Armen empfangen haben und die mir  zu guten Freunden wurden.“

Quelle: Presse, MFC Untermünkheim

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Honoring by the community of Untermünkheim

On January 13th the major of Untermünkheim arranged a welcome event for the new citizens of the town, at the local gym.

The purpose of the event was to welcome and inform the new Citizens about the leasure time opportunities, Untermünkheim has to offer. 

Heiko Sommer and myself took the chance to introduce our club to all visitors.

There was also an honoring for persons   who volunteered  very often in their spare time  and those who achieved  an outstanding performance in any kind of sport.
Heiko Sommer received an award for his volunteering commitment in the community
, the German F3A team and his function as my coach.

 I also received an award for the German Champion title in 2018.

 

Acrostar mk2 Testberichte

Kurz vor Jahresende sind zwei tolle mehrseitige Testberichte vom Acrostar mk 2 in deutschen Fachzeitschriften erschienen.
Ralph Müller hat den Acrostar für die FlugModell Ausgabe 02/2019 getestet, Nils Brückner für den Branchenprimus FMT Ausgabe 01/2019.
Beide Autoren berichten ausführlich über den Bau, mögliche Modifikationen, aber auch das Original oder die unterschiedlichen Antriebsvarianten.

Beim Test der FlugModell ist mit mir ein kleines Interview zum Acrostar, seine Geschichte und wie es weiter geht, dabei.

Beim Test in der FMT hat Nils Brückner den Cockpitausbau näher beschrieben und sogar über die FMT einen PDF-Plan zur Verfügung gestellt, den Link zur FMT-Website gibt es hier!

Beide Testberichte sind absolut lesenswert- vielen Dank euch Beiden!

Nun danke ich allen Besuchern meiner Website und wünsche einen guten Rutsch und alles Gute für 2019!

Robin Trumpp

Tolles Bild von einem stolzen Acrostar Pilot: Bendix Bode

China im November 2018

After my tripto China in April, I had the chance to go there once more end of this year. In that time there was China´s biggest airshow which takes part every two years in Zhuhai. It was possible to spend one day at this event to check out some beautiful aircrafts and amazing flight displays.
From Zhuhai I went to some factories to check out their shop, the work and their airplanes. In that time we traveled over 2000 km with the car and train. Between the days in the factories I had the chance to spend one day together with Chinese F3A pilots on the airfield to fly and setup their planes.
At the end of my tour I spent three days in FALCON to see the latest stand of KARAT and gave a presentation to all workers involved in the project and informed them what happened in the past and what is next.
After nine exciting days in China I went back to Germany.

Here are a few pictures from my trip:

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Faszination Modellbau 2018 and Airshow “Stars des Jahres”

This year I was back at the Faszination Modellbau from 1st-4th November taking place in Friedrichshafen as every year. Last year I could not taking part due to the F3A World Championship in Argentina. This year was the airshow “Stars des Jahres” on three days, friday till sunday, so one day more than in the years before.
I was part at the airshow and flew the Pilatus PC-21 and KARAT biplane.

Andreas Maier hat made some sensational pictures of Pilatus and KARAT- you need to check them!

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Markus Nussbaumer made an excellent video of the Pilatus PC-21- absolutely worth seeing!

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turbo KARAT- worlds first turboprop powered F3A biplane!

A year ago I heard that CNC Modelparts  from Switzerland offered a turboprop for the JetCat P20/ Kolibri. Immediately I decided to build a Karat with a turboprop myself. Due to the air intake at the bottom and at the top and the straight sidewall it is perfect for a turboprop conversion. Also the exhaust gas can pass through the two wings.
In December 2017 I drove to Switzerland with my JetCat P20 to pick up the Turboprop from CNC Modelparts. At the same time I shared my idea with Carlos Marquez from CM Jets in Spain, he immediately became enthusiastic about the new concept and promised me a custom made fuel tank for my model. Two weeks later I already received the new  Kevlartank  for my turbo KARAT.

FALCON received my order to build an adapter for the fuselage, which I can easily attach to the zero side thrust nose, due to the F3A Contra-Rotating-System, to receive the necessary side thrust.
At the Rotor Live Helicopter fair in Iffezheim, I discovered for the first time the innoflyer light system, which was new in the product line of Hacker Motor. I became 
impressed by the innovative, simple and efficient handling. During dinner with Andreas Golla from Hacker and Christoph Raible from innoflyer we started speaking about my special project, the turbo KARAT.
Andreas Golla suggested to equip the plane with an innoflyer lighting system. At first I had the impression he was joking, but when I realized he was serious about it I actually thought it was a great idea.
On a piece of paper I received from the waiter we determined the position of the light on the model, and ordered the parts immediately. 
After the Turboprop, all DITEX Servos and the lights were installed, the plane had to be varnished.  I was planning on an 
easy but also a bit scale finish. In addition to the KARAT I worked on a Scorpion from Aviation Design with a Patrouille Suisse color scheme, which I like a lot and it is visible in the air.
As the Turboprop and the lighting are both from Switzerland, I decided to adjust the color scheme of the Ptrouille Suisse so it matches the KARAT.
Before I installed the turbo, I painted the whole body area of the turboprop inside twice with BVM Heatshield to avoid prickly  heat in the carbon/fiberglass of the body. After everything was rewired and finished, the first flight took place in the beginning of May 2018.  Everything worked out perfectly right away. In the meantime, I had a performance problem with the turboprop, but this was due to small kevlar pieces in the kerosene filter.
The plane now has about 30 flights and everything still works fine.
At the end not the most spectacular plane I’ve ever built, but definitely one that I have the most fun with!
And just the worlds first F3A t
urboprop biplane – turbo KARAT.
Also I would like to thank everyone who was involved in this amazing project:
CM-Jets, innoflyer, CNC Modelparts, Hacker Motor, JETI model, PowerBox Systems, FALCON
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Many thanks to Philipp Rösner for another great video of turboKARAT!

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German Champion class F3A 2018 with KARAT biplane!

On the weekend of the 15th and 16th September was the first and only time the german championship took place in MFC Hameln-Lachem. Due to differences in the DMFV and DAeC and a lot of rumors and instigation in the internet, the common competitions were already history after two years. However it was nice to see that during the DAeC competition the focus was on the aerobatics and on the companionship, so everyone could put their attention to the flights. The great weather and the efforts of the host club to make everyone feel comfortable, made the seasonal final a great success. 
On Saturday two complete rounds of P19 were flown. The third round was also flown 2/3 that day. On Sunday after the last third of the preliminary round was completed, and the problems with the Notaumatic scoring system were resolved, the top 15 pilots were able to fly two rounds F19 in the final. 
At the End I was a proud and happy winner of the german championship for the 7th time in a row.
The title is very special to me because it was the first time I took part with my own designed KARAT biplane.
The silver and bronze medals went to Christian Niklass and Nils Brückner. Gregor Wetzel won 
the juniors league ahead of Max Chrubasik and Marvin Ahlborn.

The formation of the national Team next year is not certain yet and will be planned by the federal commission of the DAeC.

Many thanks to the MFC Hameln-Lachem, the jury, Peter Uhlig and Raimund Schwitalla who made the DM still take place in spite of a troublesome year.

 

JETI model Meeting 2018

On the 18th of August JETI hosted the annual JETI model Meeting.
A few top pilots supported by JETI came to CZ for making the airshow interesting and diverting with many highlights.
Especially all those scratch build airplanes from the Czech pilots also taking part in the show are stunning and make it worth to join this event.

Martin Pilny made some really great snapshots of my Pilatus PC-21- thanks for them!

Thank you JETI model for the invitation and the awesome weekend!

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