Only very few athletes make their own sporting equipment. This also applies to the development of competition model aircraft.

Progress through trial and error

Only very few athletes make their own sporting equipment. However, top athletes are often personally involved in the design, choice of materials and appearance of their technical equipment. In most cases, these lead to only tiny improvements which nevertheless add up over the years to help produce top performances. This also applies to the development of competition model aircraft. Revolutions such as the development of plastic skis or, in aeromodelling, the replacement of nickel metal hybrid batteries (NiMH) with lithium polymer (LiPo) cells, are relatively rare.

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