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Free Flighters, I am writing to keep you informed about the recent proposal involving the potential sale of the Academy of Model Aeronautics property in Muncie, Indiana. From our limited knowledge the proposal would sell the NATS flying field, AMA HQ and the museum to be used for a data center. Importantly the executive committee has signed a non-disclosure agreement (NDA).   An NDA is...

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Indoor - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wBhMys2rkw69Tyo-YCDWYa0yOhZkxh2pohGSAMY0aIw/edit?gid=1194412114#gid=1194412114   Outdoor - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vT4WDXQ4BQh_bS_ShEvCzMyiwxmE81WVfoVmX70cvPlzDN1nbVMu1sBJ7K87K_upD3mR2mYNNWalF6o/pubhtml?gid=379879557&single=true  

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Art Ellis From Andrew Barron Dear Free Flight Friends, I am sharing the sad news of the passing of Art Ellis on June 2.    He is greatly missed. TRIBUTE TO ARTHUR ELLIS (April 29, 1949 to June 2, 2026) Art was a hugely impactful educator and sportsman.  First we are inspired by his early years in football, competitive sailing and sailing instrumentation from the 1960s...

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Eloy Jan. Tui World Cup   Eloy Jan. Tui World Cup From: Peter Brocks The first FAI Free Flight World Cup (New Zealand) and the traditional Southwest Regionals will be held January 17-19, 2026 at Eloy, Arizona. The website for the SWR is  swregionals.org This website has all the contest information including the online registration and payment. Please pre-enter now to make it easier for the...

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Fab Feb FOMO   Fab Feb FOMO After just sending out our the last SEN that gave a progress report on entries for Fab Feb we got a panic call from a luddite local who had not entered yet and realized that he did not have the links or even what to do when he found them. So, in addition although he did not admit...

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Fab Feb Update Bob Lipori Weather   Fab Feb Update Today, on New Years day  we now have 76 pre-entries,  on this day last year we had 65 entries.  15 Countries from Australia to USA. We have not yet given the details of the  AMA events at the Ike and  contrary to some rumors Glenn confirms that he will be running the event  and a detailed...

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Thirty three- ninety nine F1C Fuel at Fab Feb   Thirty three- ninety nine Sometimes when the SEN issue number gets to an 'intersting' number I think we should have something 'interesting' or 'special'. Well I got an email from  Bob Beecroft to me and some other rubber flyers. It referred to something in a local CBS News.  Here is the link to the article,...

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Fab Feb Sales Items Historical questions 2025 FAI Arizona FF Champs   Fab Feb Sales Items:  From:   Walt Ghio. [email protected] I will have Nelson and Italian glow plugs for sale at the Fab Feb week of events.  The Nelson glow plugs are $11 each and the Italian are $7 each. New metal prop hubs for F1C.  They are a copy of Artem's aluminum hub's...