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World F3A Team Logo's

I started several years back when I developed the Team Kennedy logo as seen on the web page. It started with a unique color scheme for my competition airplanes that at the time was non-traditional. Most everyone had the colors sweep from root leading edge of the wing out toward the tips at the trailing edge, as if something was draped around the fuselage and over the wing in flight. I wanted a reverse sweep on the wings with a white center section and red at the wing tips. For me this was very visable in the air. This scheme and the original Team Kennedy logo have changed very little since the original design.

I have always enjoyed being creative and coming up with logo ideas that tie the event into the venue or situation. I was asked several years back to come up with a design for the USA F3A precision aerobatic team logo for the 2005 world championships. Since that design I have developed the 2007 and now the most recent 2009 USA team logos. Below are images of the logos with a description of how they came to be. Hope you enjoy.

The 2005 world championships were held in Saint-Yan France. During this time tension between the United States and France was somewhat high. The concept for this logo was to come up with something that did not flash the Stars and Strips everywhere while the team was there but would show respect, gratitude, and thanks for something that had ties to both countries. This is when the pattern plane flying around the statue of liberty came to life. I felt like this would highlight the Team USA spirit yet tie us back to France in a way that would not add to the tension. Everyone liked this logo and the team proudly displayed the logo on our shirts, hats, and jackets while competing in France.

From these the idea to somehow use the sunburst as the center of the logo and then have the USA and the Argentine flag connected out each side as if the sunburst moved forward from the center of the flag leaving USA and Artentina appearing from behind the sunburst. I have tried to keep consitency with the Team USA image in each logo. Next, the pattern plane flying in knife edge over the face of the sunburst added that final touch as with the coat of arms. the result was the Team USA proud Eagle and Stars and Stripes on the left and the Argentina country flag on the right with the sunburst as the center piece.

Above is the concept drawing for the 2009 Team USA logo. The worlds this year are held in Portugal. I began the research for this logo soon after the 2007 worlds when I was asked to develop the next one for Team USA.

Many of the significant events in the history and heritage of Portugal inspired me to create the the team USA logo for the 2009 F3A world championships.
Portugal spearheaded the exploration of the world and undertook the age of discovery. Important people like Henry the navigator and Magellan as examples. Magellan was the first person to lead an expedition across the Pacific Ocean and also led the first successful attempt to circumnavigate the earth.
The ship that truly launched the first phase of the Portuguese discoveries was the caravel.
We are very proud to be from the USA with our rich heritage, and we enjoy traveling to many countries around the world as Magellan did. Many hours of research and thought went into the logo for the upcoming worlds being hosted by Portugal. I wanted to recognize Portugals rich heritage and ours but show we understand the importance of Portugals early explorations during the age of discovery.
I wanted to maintain the look of the "Team USA" presenting the text as we have in the past keeping the consistant look. I tried to include some sort of airplane theme so having it perform a aerobatic knife edge turn around the sails seemed appropriate leading the way to the next victory.
If you take a look at the logo, you will see that the "Team" creates the upper rear portion of the caravel while the "USA" clearly is the foundation of the ship,the hull. Our proud stars and stripes catch the wind and fly out front representing the 50 great United States, and we honor our host conuntry Portugal flying their colors.
I see for us our adventure will begin by traveling to a new location in the world, meeting new people, seeing new sites, making new discoveries working hard as a great team much like the crews did on a caravel to sail back home with the richest reward of all. The 2009 F3A World Champion.