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  • Evening breeze

    19.6.2020 // Stanley J. Stembera // Aircraft Tags: Arnold Degen, Esso, Swiss glider No Responses


    It has been almost three weeks of continual rain except for today. I grabbed ESSO Nr.2, bungee launch set, drone, and head to the airfield nearby to test and practice launch by 80/20 bungee.

  • ESSO – Swiss glider by Arnold Degen (maiden flight)

    24.3.2019 // Stanley J. Stembera // Aircraft, Workshop Tags: Arnold Degen, Esso, Glider, MG Bern, Mühlethurnen No Responses


    It has been quite a while ago we brought a short building report. I built two ESSO models since that time and now it is high time to get one of this glider in the air.

  • ESSO – Swiss glider by Arnold Degen (building the fuselage)

    27.2.2016 // Stanley J. Stembera // Workshop Tags: Arnold Degen, Esso No Responses


    The famous Swiss vintage glider known as ESSO was designed by Arnold Degen in 1943 as a promotional model for the European branch of Exxon. I have chosen this model as another vintage project for incoming season which is close and will be actual in a few weeks sometime.

  • Der Grosse Tag in Arosa – 1941

    9.12.2015 // Stanley J. Stembera // Events Tags: Arnold Degen, Arosa, Jakob Klemenz, Willi Tauss No Responses


    Arosa je známé švýcarské lázeňské město, ve kterém se 16. března v roce 1941 konala letecko-modelářská soutěž, které se zúčastnilo 22 družstev, 113 závodníků se 162 modely, z čehož bylo 5 poháněných benzinovým motorem a 2 gumovým svazkem (guma byla tehdy nedostatková). Soutež probíhala celou sobotu a neděli a všichni účastníci měli zajištěno ubytování a stravování. Ve filmu jsou zachyceni tři významní průkopníci švýcarské modelářské scény.

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