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- Betty Malkin
- North American
- Fab Feb Progress
- Join the NFFS
Betty Malkin
We regret to announce the passing of Betty Malkin, Betty was the wife the NZ F1B Sportsman and Airfoil book author John Malkin who was also one of my lifetime mentors. John passed away earlier this year. Betty travelled to many World Champs with John, flew in domestic events and helped in the production of the Airfloil book. Betty’s family especially asked me to mention her passing in SEN because Betty still enjoyed writing letters to the many people that she met while at flying at events all around the world.
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This is Lindy: Betty and her family have welcomed us at their Christmas celebrations for many years, giving us a “home away from home”. We will miss her and John.
North American Cup
The Toronto Free Flight Group Presents the 2026 North American Cup
An FAI World & America’s Cup & Team Championship
Dates: Wednesday, February 11th 2026 with Thursday February 12th as reserve day
Place: Bissonette Mirage Field, Lost Hills, CA USA
Events: Individual F1A, F1B, F1C, F1Q & 3 Person Team F1A, B & C (Teams can be mixed nationalities)
Entry Fees: $30.00 for F1A, F1B, F1C, F1Q – Team entry included in fee
Juniors free all events!
AMA liaison CD: Brian Van Nest
Co-Organizer: Bernard Guest: PO Box 210634, Auke-Bay AK 99821-0634
United States +1(971) 379-5176 Email: [email protected]
Organizer: Tony Mathews: 9192 Hwy 118, Algonquin Highlands, Ontario, Canada, K0M1S0 +1(705) 455-7518 (cell)
E-mail: [email protected]
Wednesday February 11th
F1A/B/C/Q Round 1 8:00 am – 9:00 am. Rnd 1&2: 240 sec max F1A/B/C/Q (weather permitting)
Round 2 9:00 am – 10:00 am
Round 3 10:00 am – 11:00 pm 180 sec round 3 – 5
Round 4 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Round 5 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
F1A/B/C Fly-offs start earliest 3:30 pm to 6:00 p.m. Latest (weather permitting – or Sunrise Thursday morning)
Trophies for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place F1A, F1B & F1C & F1Q. Medals for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place Teams.
Medals for top Junior in each event and top Female also! Champagne and snacks will be available Wednesday evening starting at 6:30 pm. The final awards ceremony will be after the final flyoffs.
(Sunrise for Feb 11th – 6:50 am Sunset – 5:37 pm)
Deviations from the FAI sporting code and special instructions:
Competitors MUST provide their own timekeepers. Fly-off Max times and start time will be decided on the day with the Jury depending on the weather.
Team scores will be decided by the total time of the 3 contestants including flyoff times (ie: not as per the sporting code).
Note: A Starting “area” will be utilized without pole positions (depending on entry numbers)
Link to the results (Cut and paste it into your browser): sen.faifreeflight.org
Entry fees to be paid on the field before Feb 11th (someone will be available to take entries on the field on Tuesday Feb 11th from 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm) Note: it will be possible to pay for as many Fab Feb competitions as desired at the registration (location to be announced Feb 06th 2026)
Fab Feb Progress
We turned on our online sign up for Fab Feb yesterday and the first 3 people had signed up within 15 minutes. Can Tezcan from Germany beat our usual earliest bird, Mike Roberts from the USA by abut 5 minutes. Some of the organizers had earlier to check out the entry system but they don’r count. We have almost 30 entries and that is about 10 World Champs, must prove something. It is important for International visitors to enter early so we can arrange their AMA Associate membership with the AMA. Half of those entered so are from outside of the USA
The web site with Fab Feb Stuff is sen.faifreeflight.org
Join the NFFS
From: Gene Ulm
Are you a member of the National Free Flight Society? If not you should think about it. In addition to receiving the “Digest,” the color magazine dedicated to Free Flight (also available in less expensive digital version for world-wide types and those that want to save a little on postage) you would be helping support the largest organization dedicated solely to the growth of Free Flight. For those in the USA your membership is a tax-deductible contribution to help secure Free Flight’s future.
Join here:
https://www.freeflight.org/product/membership/
Gene
SEN Status
Our new web site is online with archives of SEN going back to 1997 plus many items about FAI Free Flight. It can be found at http://www.faifreeflight.org
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New users can sign up at this link http://eepurl.com/crOnvj
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Roger Morrell