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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...
2026 nats scores
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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Saga of the 2025 World Free Flight Championships in Romania Tangent Report – from the FB Saga of the 2025 World Free Flight Championships in Romania From: Julie and Faust Parker Getting There: Julie, Faust and Jim Parker traveled to Romania and back on the same flights. Our flight to London was scheduled to depart at 7:40 PM on July 12th. We arrived on...
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Why not RDT About Reading your al-te-meter and the other one too Response to Editor's Comment Why not RDT From: Roy E. Smith I do find it worrisome that our friends 'across the pond' have chosen to use the acronym RCDT to denote radio activated de-thermalizers. It implies Radio Control - which could be the first step in the regulating authorities classifying Free Flight under...
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RCDT in FF Scale Progress Towards Automated Timing RCDT in FF Scale Roger, Ahh, that old conspiracy, used to deflect to the 'dead cat' once again. Look, duration FF over here (like what we do) is administered by the Free Flight Technical Committee (FFTC) of the British Model Flying Association (BMFA). Scale flying is administered (wait for it !) by the Scale Technical Committee...
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F1E Champs Results Reading your al-te-meter and the other one too. F1E Champs Results Seems like the organizer had not yet put them on line but they can be found here : https://www.freeflightnews.org.uk/champs/ch25/WC25E.HTM maybe they did realize the World was waiting. Reading your al-te-meter and the other one too. From:Allard On altimeters, Sporting code F1.1.4 reads: vi) For all competitors attaining the maximum flight...
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RCDT in FF Competitions More on BVLOS Janne's fly-off flight revisited Explanation on What did About Time say to Janne Isotalo? RCDT in FF Competitions From: chris edge I respond to Roy Smith's letter in SEN 3361 regarding his musing on if it should be required that RCDT be used in cases of models going OOS. In the UK and Scotland we have been...