by Ian Kaynes Chairman, CIAM FF Subcommittee March 1995

The 1994 Free Flight World Cup has again had good participation, support and prestige. The top places in each class and statistics of entries are given later in this bulletin. The statistics are not exactly comparable to previous years since 1994 saw the introduction of a new points system described below.

F1A was won by Allard van Wallene of the Netherlands, with a clear three victories giving a score of 150 points, with Sergei Makarov and Vin Morgan the nearest challengers with 125 points each.

Alexander Andrjukov (Ukraine) has returned to the top place in F1B. His victory over Anselmo Zeri was very close: they both had 3 wins and so the result was decided by including additional events. Andrjukov's next best result was a second place giving victory when compared to Zeri's next eligible placing of a third place. Zeri had also recorded a second place at Cambrai (France), but that could not be included under the "count one event only from each European country" rule since his wins included Poitou - also in France.

F1C honours went to Frenchman Alain Roux with three victories in Europe, with a clear margin over Jon Fletcher with 130 points from competitions in Australia and New Zealand and then Wachtler, Thomas and Agren all sharing 120 points.

The F1E World Cup has been won by Felix Schobel jr of Austria with a competition placings of one first, one second and a seventh to give 108 points, 12 points ahead of Helmut Schuberth of Germany.

The organisation of the World Cup ran smoothly apart from the usual slightly late receipt of results from some competition organisers and, worse, the delay of over two months in receiving results from the Pacific Championships in New Zealand and the Sazena competition in the Czech Republic.

The credit for the fastest results go to the Holiday on Ice in Norway, results reaching the UK 5 days after the competition. During the year results and news have been issued to organisers in the form of 5 issues of a World Cup newsletter.

Processing of results has been aided significantly by the FAI standardised abbreviations for nations.

There have been no protests in the 1994 Free Flight World Cup. An "enquiry" was received about an incident at Poitou concerning a competitor's model which went out of sight during the flyoff. This primarily concerned the local competition organisation and no protest had been made at the competition. The president of the jury was asked for a report, but no further action took place.

A point system change became effective for 1994 World Cup. The significant feature is that the points allocation is extended to cover 24 places but points are awarded only to competitors placing in the top half of the results list. There have been no problems with the implementation of the new system, but it does serve to emphasise the relatively low number of competitors in F1C compared to F1B and particularly F1A.

The 1994 Plenary meeting passed a proposal from the Free Flight Subcommittee that medals be awarded to the winner and diploma to the top three people in each class of the World Cup. In order to facilitate production of such awards, designs were requested in conjunction with the FF World Cup publicity during 1994. A portfolio of designs by Andre Schandel (artist of the Alphonse Penaud Diploma) were considered at the December CIAM Bureau meeting and a choice made of a design to be used as a basis for the medals and diploma.

Number of competitors per country, only those scoring points in 2 or more events:

Total number of participants in all four classes: 2168