The
first traces of the desire to fly could be
observed in our family in the early 1900's.
That was the time when Stephen Slabey -- my
grandmother's brother -- returned from California.
Except his nickname - "Goldy" -
he also brought back his first knowledge of
flying machines and a serious intension to
fly it one day.
In
the summer of '55, "Goldy" caught
me trying to build one of my first flying
models in my grandfather's workshop. Then,
he told me a story in which he successfully
fulfilled is dream of flying. He managed to
do so in France in the summer of 1911. We
then tried my flying creation with a success
and he gave me his photograph together with
a symbolic family aviatic relay.
Look at this chronicle if you
want to see what can be built on a good basis
of a little boy's dream.
*Prologue
1965 - first model with a remote control
(but flying without RC equipment)
1969
- first model with a real remote control
1970 - first RC model during the flight
at the university dormitory stadium in Bratislava
1971 - first model controlled by a multifunctional
radio
1978
- moving out to slope - first model
with a proportional control
1985 - Red Line - model for the acrobatic
movements above the slope
1987
- Rival 1 - first of the series of successful
mini-gliders
1988 - Rival 2 - successful electrification
1989 - Rival 2 - first of the series of
national endurance records
1990 - Rival 3 - model for the record flight
for
the distance within a closed circle
1992 - Rival BORN - a spring joke -
one hour of motor flight
1992 - Rival 5 - 100 minutes of motor flight
1993 - Rival 8 - 2 hours of flying with
a solar energy source
