The last flight of Heavy Heron, the last flight of ACC09. Perfect flight, only the first touchdown occured 5m before the 120m zone. But actually we have flown the airplane to its limit! 9kg Payload, total mass abaout 11,2kg!

Das Team der AkaModell konnte sich gegen 22 andere Teams aus ganz Europa durchsetzen. Bereits mit dem Design-Report und der Präsentation vor Ort konnten wirordentlich Punkte sammeln. Bei den zwei Flugtagen des insgesamt dreitägigen Wettbewerbes gelang es uns dann, wesentlich mehr Blei in die Luft zu befördern sowie wieder sicher zu landen als andere Teams. […]

hi all Today was the first flight competition run. In the test run we lifted 6kg easyly, but had some problems with the start. We fixed the problem and orderd 8kg for the first attempt. After a restart(we needed 10 cm more then the 60m for the start) we were able to lift the 8 […]

Hi all, at the moment we are at the auditorium. Team No 10 is speaking. We are team No 21. so expected time for our presentation is 18:00. Other teams seem quite well prepared. Many use s1223 and wingspans between 1,8m and 3,2m. But there are also some more experimental planes here.

Hello AKAModell, Hello World, Yesterday at 22:00 we arrived in Covilha, it was a hard and long trip. The trip to Frankfurt and the flight were very nice and everything worked fine. In Lisbon there was a problem with the trian station: We were forced to put our transportation box out of the trian again. […]