News from the FFTC - 2009 Contest Calendar (Version 3)
Please click here for next year's contest calendar.
News from Phil Ball - final competition results
Pease click here for the League 2008 results, here for the 2008 Senior Championships, here for the corrected final trials results and here for the Midlands Gala results.
News from the FFTC - issue 30
Please click here for the latest news from the FFTC.
A quarter century of BMFA Free Flight Forums
November 23rd, the day after the AGM and dinner, sees the twenty-fifth Free Flight Forum at the Holiday Inn, Coventry CV2 2HP. To mark the quarter century of what has become, along with the Forum Reports, one of the highlights of the free-flight year, a wide range of topics will be covered by speakers who really know their onions. Tickets are £8 from the BMFA office, or you can pay on the day. The Forum starts at 10 a.m. in the Walmesley Room, with Mike Evatt again in the chair.
To whet your appetite this is what’s in store: Roger Wilkes - Balsa and Carbon Rod Structures; Trevor Grey - Brushing Up (Brushless Motors); Chris Strachan - sharing Flying Sites with General Aviation; Mark Croome - Rohacell D-boxes; John O'Donnell - High Tech Where It Fits; Phil Ball - Contest Analysis; Ray Monks - Fabricating Carbon Booms; Roger Wilkes - The Torque-Back Trimming Technique and Variable Pitch Props; Lindsey Smith - Small Rubber Scale Models; Phil Ball - Cutting Ribs from Block on a Lathe; Trevor Grey - Radio Dethermalisers - the Policy; Chris Edge - Radio Dethermalisers - The Practicalities; Mike Woodhouse - A Day in the Life of a Team Manager.
Message from Trevor Grey re Salisbury Plain
Please note that the Salisbury Plain Trimming
Weekend on October 18/19 is planned to take place on Area 18
(Everleigh), not the usual Area 8.
This is an experiment to assess the practicalities of the site for
further use. As such the arrangements will be a little different to
normal. There will be a meeting point before moving on to the
area itself. This is the "Crown" Pub/Hotel in Everleigh itself; time
9:45 for 10:00am.
Please assemble at the above first, don't move on to the site itself.
Also note that the usual provisos re last minute cancellation still
apply - Peter Tribe will notify all as usual shortly before the date/s.
5th Area results
Please click here for results.
Southern Gala 2008 - Results
Please click here for results.
Current Senior Champs. and Plugge Cup positions
Please click here for current Senior Champs. positions and here for current Plugge Cup positions.
Euro Champs 2008 - short report from Mike Woodhouse
Some of you may have already heard the great news. The team has returned from Bulgaria after a successful European Free Flight Championships. The team has returned with the overall championship - The Jack North Trophy.
2008 Open Rubber League
Please click here for current (August) 2008 Open Rubber League positions.
Please click here for details of the report.
Click here for details.
Please click here for details of Area contacts.
The CD box has a mobile phone - you are recommended to enter the number into your mobile and take it down wind on retrieval in case there is a need at a BMFA contest to contact the CD. 0793 576 4810
The FFTC advises the BRITISH MODEL FLYING ASSOCIATION (BMFA) on all matters relating to free flight activities.
The BMFA is the body delegated by the Royal Aero Club to be responsible for all aspects of model flying in Great Britain. It is also recognised as the sole representative organisation for the sport in the UK by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI) which is the world-wide governing body for all forms of sporting aviation, including model flying. Information from the CIAM Free Flight Sub-Committee of the FAI is available from its Chairman, Ian Kaynes, at kaynes@btinternet.com Ian also publishes the FFn Contest Diary for the current year.
The Association numbers over 30000 members, with more than 640 affiliated clubs, the majority of which nowadays cater for the R/C flyer. If you would like more information about any aspect of the Association's work, or about aeromodelling in general, please click on the BMFA link above.
Mike Parker has created a Web Site for Crookham Contest Modellers and S.A.M. 1066 - any comments on this, please, to Mike by clicking here.
Every year since 1985 the BMFA has organised a Free Flight Forum. This has become a popular event in which papers on all aspects of free flight are presented by experts. They cover, for example, design, construction, performance, tactical flying and rules. A list of all reports is available at BMFA Free Flight Forum Reports.
Mike Woodhouse now prepares a page of free flight news for publication in BMFA News (the official journal of the BMFA). He is always pleased to receive items of interest and can be contacted on 01603 457754 or by e-mail at Mike@freeflightsupplies.co.uk
More general free flight information can be found in both the NFFS Web Site and the SCAT Web Site.
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