F3A World Championship 1975 Bern

Remake of Super 8 mm Film which was recorded with a Kodak Instamatic M6 camera without sound.
Scanned with Kodak Reels device. Postprocessed with Vegas pro 20 with Neat_Video plugin, Cleaning dust in flight scenes with Corel Photopoint on series of single frames. Final output stabilizing and speed correction to 18 FPS with Film 9.
Film 9 is doing a fine job in degraining and stabilizing as well as automatically creating a 18 FPS MP4- file. (Interpolation fails for flight scenes, as does dust removal, because airplanes are considered as dust an they disappear). It seems to be advantageous to first run Film 9 and use the output as the base for editing in Vegas.

[@ConnieGleason-vk2rq]

Thanks for the video. My dad, DAVE BROWN (3rd place) passed away a few months ago. It was fun seeing a much-younger him doing what he loved.

[@gerardwerion6045]

I met Dave several times at the world championships...

[@davepatrick9905]

I spoke to your Dad Just before he move to Florida..... we spoke at lenght. I first really got to know him in 1978 when I starteded working at Carl Goldberg Models... I flew against him many times in pattern, and the T.O.C. and he always beat me...:-) I have many many great stories. Your Mum is amazing. I know you live in Florida as do I now. Best to you and your family. Dave Patrick

[@Juno58]

Das war noch echter Kunstflug, im Gegensatz zum "3D" Rumgehampel...

[@stevendegiorgio3143]

I miss those days.I love pattern planes.Today I fly a horizon Hobby's V800.Did Dave Brown really pass away?He was once the president of the AMA.I hope this isn't true,he was a great guy.I loved his Tipoeare pattern plane.I had a bridge UFO back in 1985.I love those planes .

[@echassin]

Future champion and childhood inspiration Hanno Prettner is in various parts of the video (Curare, 2nd place).
In discussions about his much later retirement, I've seen information about a fall/neck/neurologic injury, but I see at 14:32 of this early video that he was already coping with weakness in his legs. He didn't seem to advertise his troubles and IMO that makes his successes even more meaningful.

[@alantaylor353]

Very cool.!! 👍 👍 👍
Subbed & liked & the very best wishes from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🙏 ❤️

[@altermannfliegt3927]

🎧😢

[@advancetecgr]

Thanks fo your comment. There was no sound on super 8 film

[@altermannfliegt3927]

@@advancetecgr I know, but the version 14 years ago sounded better. 😉
The film quality is particularly good.

[@Themheals]

Where is Hanno Pretner?