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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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August 2024 AmCup Scores and Report   Am Cup at 1 Aug after Nats With about 1/3 of the 32 AmCup contests now complete, we have some great competitions shaping up. Interestingly, only 8 flyers have broken the 100 point mark. Generally, a score of 103 to 107 wins most of the events but F1A and B often require 110 to 115 points. There are...

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Blog about the Junior World Championship in North-Macedonia Junior World Champs Web site Re: SEN 3246 Re: SEN 3246 Hot Summer 3 Flyers, 3 emails and one more   Blog about the Junior World Championship in North-Macedonia From Thermikense The F1ABP Junior-Word Championship will start on August 5 in Prilep (North-Macedonia). The flying days are Wednesday F1A, Thursday F1B and Friday F1P. Thermiksense reports about the...

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About Time FAI Congratulates the Winners   about time From Gil Hagay on 2024-07-30 12:14 Dear Roger, According to the current FAI code, a competitor may use an altimeter during a flyoff, but is in no way obligated to present the result obtained with it. This means that the result registered through an altimeter is used only to challenge the result recorded by the timekeeper and only for...

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Identification marks and 21st Century What's coming up ? A Comment on Q Rules   Identification marks and 21st Century From Urs Schaller As I am struggling from time to time about the same argument, I took some time off from model building to put together the details. First thing, to get the tech details you have to give a look at the General CIAM Rules...

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F1ABC European Championship – Results etc F1ABC European Championship - Thermiksense Blog F1ABCQ Asian-Oceanic Championships for Free Flight Model Aircraft - results ?   F1ABC European Championship – Results etc There does not appear to be an official results source on the organizer's web site. There are quite a number of different versions with different degrees of age and correctness.  But the results have made...