Worldchampionship of F3A models in Portugal

On the Worldchampionships of the aerobatic modeling class F3A the Xtra 30-10 Evo demonstrated once more his quality.  A lot of pilots started with the special developed motor on this event. In the Finals flew 5 gasengines and 5 electric engines. 4 of them, and that means 80% of these electric flying  World Top Finalpilots  trust on the Xtra 30-10 Evo.

We congratulate all competitors to their great success, especially our Finalpilots Gerhard Mayr (Austrian Champion), Jason Schulman (USA Champion), Quique Somenzini (World Champion 2007) and Bernd Beschorner (German Champion) to their outstanding results, their excellent performances and the eminent cooperation.

Bernd Beschorner is once more German Champion in F3A

In the aerobatic class F3A Bernd Beschorner won all 3 national Competitions, added to the German Championship. So he is once more the German Champion in this class.

Congratulation to that success! Bernd as well as many other pilots in this class flies with the Xtra 30-10 Evo.   

During the mudslinging of Kiev 2008 Guntmar Rüb for the first time succeeded to win the titel of world champion in the class F5B, and continued thus the beautiful tradition that the world champion comes from Germany in F5B. The world champion of 2006 and 2004 Wolf Fickenscher became this time vice world champion. We congratulate on this super success.

During the world championship 2008 of the Boat classes the English team, Nick Rees, Ruben Rees and Colin Mcginn were with Plettenberg electrical motors very successful. In total they won 7 medals. In the class Eco Expert Lipo they won the places 1-3. Colin achieved the world champion title, Nick became Second and Ruben as a Junior an excellent 3.Platz.

In Mono 3 and Hydro 3 Colin each became 3rd. In F1 and Eco Standard Nick Rees gained the 3rd rank in each case. Ruben became world champion in the class Mono 1  juniors. A fabulous success which we congratulate on cordially.

The Contest Eurotour in 2008 in the class F5B Wolf Fickenscher  won once more the competition. He flies in his "Raketenwurm " the HP 220/37/A 1 P6 7:1 F5B. The places 2 and 3 became the national team members of the German F5B team  Heiko Greiner  and Guntmar Rueb. Both pilots fly also a HP 220/37/A 1 P6 7:1. Also here our cordial congratulation. We cross fingers  to the team for the world championship F5B in September in Kiev/ Ukraine and wish all the best.

Bernd Beschorner can look back upon a very successful season 2008.  He became after an excellently steady performance 3rd of the European championship in F3 A in Italy,  German master in the aerobatic class of the DMFV and German vicemaster of the national DAeC B cadre  F3 A 2008. After Bernds victory in the last partial competition in Schwarme Markus Wissinger won the overall competiton after 4 single competitions by a margin of just 1,26 % points . Bernd flies a Xtra 30-10 Evo with a propeller in his integral model and a Prop MAG 7. We congratulate also to the 3rd place at the AcroMasters 2008 and the 3rd place at the Tucson Shootout 2008 cordially!

In the USA Jason Shulman won the USA Nationals F3 A championships in 2008 also with a model integral and a Xtra 30-10 Evo. Jason is worldwide one of  the best stunt flying pilots and we congratulate cordially on the victory.

Chad Northeast, powered with a Xtra 30-10 Evo, became 7th in the finals of the USA Nats 2008 and 4 weeks later Kandischer masters in the final of the USA 2008th Cordial Congratulation! During the Canadian Championship 7 of the first 10 pilots trusted in the Xtra 30-10 Evo.

Also the Austrian pilot Gerhard Mayr who is in the class F3A with a Xtra 30-10 Evo on the way can look back upon a very successful season.

According to the victories during the Austrian State Championship and at the competitions in Salzburg, Romily, Tschechien and the Three countries cup,  2nd places in Lichtenstein, San Marino and the Ratisbona Cup, he achieved an excellent 5th place on the European championship of F3A  in Italy.  Our most cordial congratulation on this kostanten service.

Manfred Greve won 2008 in the great tradition the titel of German champion in the class F3AW (Aerobatic- Waterflight) second place won Sebastian Gehl and third place Hans Hirschberger. All pilots flew with the Xtra 30-10 Evo, Kokam and Rasa. Concratulations to the pilots. 

Big success at the 3D Masters 2008 in UK

Alon Barak, our 8 jaehriger helicopters' pilot from Israel proved his talent in impressing manner. He succeeded in it at the 3D Masteres 2008, the  worldwide most important competition of 3D Heliflyth Northhampton England. He finals in the expert class on the 2nd place. Alon flies a Trex600E with an Orbit of 30-12 Heli Expert. In the Flight to Music class our Swedish pilot Oscar Ohlson won. The 14 Year Old Oscar flies also a Trex600E with an Orbit of 25-08 Heli Expert.

We congratulate on these considerable services.

Bernd Beschorner get the 1 Place at the German Acro Masters in Albstadt. He flights with a "Raven" from Delro.

He was the only pilot, used elektric powerd motor in the class F 3A / XL. The span from 3 meter and the weight from 18,3 kg go vertical in the sky.

The motor is a Plettenberg "Predator 37/6" used with a 14S3PLiPo, 4900ma from FlightPower. The modified Schulze "future 40.160H" runns well with the motor. With a CFK-3-blade-prop 28,5/12", from RASA, the motor has a power from about 15KW.

Germany is Worldchampion 2006 

Wolf Fickenscher, Guntmar Rüb und Heiko Greiner are Worldchampion, Vice-Champion and Third of  F5B Contest as well as Teamchampion!! Congratulations!

Powered by Plettenberg motors the German Team did it on the Worldchampionshif F5B in Pitesti/ Romania on 21.08. – 26.08.06. The Pilots Wolf Fickenscher, Guntmar Rüb and Heiko Greiner escorted from there Helpers Norbert Hübner, Oswin Greiner and Stefan Nemmert and there Team Manager Wolfgang Schulz came to defend there Titel in the Individual ranking as well as in the Team ranking.

They reached more than this and after spectacular flights, the placed the first, second an third and got as well the Teamchampionship. Congratulations!!

The three pilots fly HP 220/37/A1 P4 7:1 and had shown excellent performances.

Most of the worldbest Pilots trust on Plettenberg Motors. We are proud of this and say thank you for the confidence. 

On the World-Champion Chip F5B in York/England the german pilots showed there fantastic form and beat all other pilots of the world. Wolf Fickenscher won in style all flights and so the title of the worldchampion.

Guntmar Rüb gained the second place. Only with some points behind Guntmar, the pilot Markus Möckli from Switzerland won the 3. place. Markus flew also with the worldchampion motor HP 220/37/A1 P6 7:1. Together with Heinz Kugler, on the 11. place, the German Team won the title of the World-Team-Champion. Congratulations to the pilots to that fantastic result. Among these best pilots a lot of the pilots on the championchip flew with a Plettenberg motor. So Plettenberg is real pure power for winner.

In the class F3A Aerobatics in 2004 the way in the future was shown. Bernd Beschoner with the Xtra 25-13 was the first German Champion with an electric powered model. Bernd refered the pilots with the gas engines and the other electric engines one the places. Congratulations to this fantastic success. On the European Championchip Bernd came in fifth place. He is qualified for the Worldchampionchip 2005 and we wish good luck.

Also in the Powerboat-Scene our motors are used with great success.

On the 2.GERMAN STRAIGHT AWAY Contest 2004 Achim Kurreck won with his 170 cm katamaran in the class over 64 cells with a top speed of 140,63 km/h (87,38 mph). He used 2x HP 370BM/50/A1 witht future 40.160KW and 40 cells GP 3300 for each motor.