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...
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
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...
More on the Euros All-Tee News Plus Plus, Plus More on the Euros From the FaceBook, Per Findahl points us to the FAI report on the Euro Champs At this place https://www.fai.org/news/2022-fai-f1abc-european-championships-free-flight-model-aircraft-north-macedonia It includes reference to a very good set of photos at : https://www.flickr.com/photos/airsports_fai/albums/72177720301513897 Pity Flickr does not facilitate captions ? The link to the detailed results is still not as good as the...
Looking to buy competitive F1B models - not at FFM Euros Looking to buy competitive F1B models From:Ittai Kohavi Hello, This is Ittai Kohavi, as some of you may know, my F1B model box was lost in Frankfurt by Lufthansa Airlines on the way to the Jr. World Championships this summer in Bulgaria. Despite our best efforts and the help of Lufthansa pilot Dirk Paff,...
America's Cup so far Euro Champs so far AmCup scores and report, Aug 18,2022 Great competition flying in the first 60% of this 2022 AmCup season—18 of 30 contests complete. Overall, there are more entrants, but five events have zero or only one bonus point contest. This even with the new 2022-point allocation scheme that starts bonus points at 5 flyers (was 6 flyers). The...
SEN European Championship F1ABC E/C F1ABC in Prilep (North-Macedonia) From: Bernhard Schwendemann This week the European Championship in F1ABC will be held in Prilep (North-Macedonia). F1A will fly on Wednesday (17.8.), F1B on Thursday (18.8.) and F1C in Friday (19.8.). The blog on the webpage of Thermiksense was already started: https://www.thermiksense.de/2022-f1abc-em-nord-mazedonien/ Bernhard More on B From:Mike Pettigrew Hi Roger About the B fly-off window. As...
F1B Fly Off Window (beating a dead horse) No Problem ... As many as you like whenever you like Links to Euro Champs F1E Results F1B Fly Off Window (beating a dead horse) From:Ross Jahnke I fly F1B, but don't make the fly-off too often. But as a frequent fly off timer, watching the chaos in F1B when the horn blows compared to the A...