Oskar Czepa (model pilot)

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Oskar Czepa (born March 1, 1926 in Mährisch Trübau ) is an Austrian model pilot and model aircraft designer.

His greatest success was the world championship title, which he obtained on August 24, 1951 in Bled in the F1A class (model sailplanes; free flight). A replica of his winning model at the time, the “toothpick”, is on display in the Deutsches Museum in Munich .

Oskar Czepa has set numerous Austrian records, for example with a flight time of 7:01:18 h, the Austrian record for long-term flight for RC model gliders on September 5, 1964 in Winden am See / Burgenland .

Oskar Czepa currently holds three Austrian records (class F5-S distance in a closed circle [36.6 km], F5-SOL duration [4h 32min 33s], F5-SOL distance in a closed circle [92 km]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.sport-komplett.de/sport-komplett/sportarten/m/modellsport/hst/23.html
  2. ↑ http://www.czepa.at/zahnst.html
  3. ↑ Austromodellflug 10/1964, page V, available at http://www.prop.at/prop-magazin-archiv/1961-1970
  4. ↑ http://www.lexsoft.at/aeroclub/ONF/Rekorde/rekorde.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Czepa, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian model pilot and model airplane designer
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Moravian Trübau