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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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World Champs Flickr Album by FAI Why buy a SR71 and make it into a Piper Cub Thermal Sniffer pricing change Choose this or that Champs Flickr Album by FAI Find it here .. lots of good pictures https://www.flickr.com/photos/airsports_fai/albums/72177720311124463 Why buy a SR71 and make it into a Piper Cub From: Gil Hagay Dear roger, The annual debate on restricting models' performance never fails to...
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Kinetic Energy and Shifts Stretching or Shrinking New model blog Kinetic Energy and Shifts From: Tapio Linkosalo Two comments on messages in SEN 3148. One, about reducing model performance. Many authors have suggested adding weight, but I have my doubts on this. First, there is a nice simulation paper in Free Flight Quarterly, where Sergio Montes studied the impact of glider weight onto performance. Taking...
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I don't like making it worser but if you must... Huge First Flyoffs I don't like making it worser but if you must... From: Gary Pope Hi Roger, re Making it fly worse I'd prefer to leave things as they are for F1, but if there is an unquenchable need to reduce performance then there are two very simple (and cheap) strands available ; 1....
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Making it fly worse Reducing the Lotto Fly Off Results Making it fly worse From: JEFF ELLINGTON Good day everyone, Every year, it seems the same, after the finals and after the world champs they always try to change the airplanes to make them fly worse. The advanced performance of our models is outstanding, evolution, and looking for perfection to make our airplanes GREAT is...
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One Way to Reduce F1C Performance less perfomance for F1B The Sniffer Update One Way to Reduce F1C Performance From: Harry Grogan The previous SEN mentioned an idea that David Ackery had about reducing F1C performance. He suggested reducing motor venturi diameters to 4 mm (or less). I think this is a great idea. It is easily implemented and easily checked with a no-go gauge. He stated...