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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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Altimeter start condition Get your Order in Get your Entry in This is what is in   Altimeter start condition From: Klaus Salzer Hello all, with much interest I read about the timing issues / proposals and read the manuals of the all-tee and the mini-neuron. Both devices start recording on a sudden increase in height (5m resp. 10 m). for most free flight classes...

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Icarex at Fab Feb 2024 FAI Arizona FF Champs Report (including the 12  min. F1A fly-off) America Cup results - with individual placings   Icarex at Fab Feb From Eitan Habba Hi Roger, Hopefully I will participate in Feb-Feb W.C. Please publish that I will bring with me Japanese icarex. Available colors are: Black Dark blue Light blue Green Yellow Red White PINK Orange It...

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AM Cup finals   AmCup Final Report, Dec. 30, 2024, The last 2024 contest, Az Champs, is complete. The question from the Nov. AmCup report was how F1B was going to shake out, would Alex Andriukov travel to the Arizona Champs for his 3rd site and 4th score in F1B? Would Blake Jensen would go to try to protect the lead he held for half...

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IKE Info   ISAACSON WINTER CLASSIC February 8–10,  Lost Hills CA. AMA and NFFS Events  – Part of Fab Feb!! In  Conjunction with the Kiwi Cup  World and America's Cup  Events AMA and NFFS EVENTS   Fly any of the three days, unless otherwise stated. May continue if clean on a later day National Cup  Events AMA 1/2 A GAS, Golden Age 1/2 A gas (only)...

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Looking Up F1B - the BIG picture   Looking Up From: gilbert morris I went out flying this morning and as I was looking up there appeared a little airplane in the sky ---- and it was mine! F1B - the BIG picture From: Aram Schlosberg . B-flyers are spaced 10 meters apart and can easily figure out whether an adjacent launched model is climbing...