Teamlogos

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.