Archive for September, 2008
2008 Indoor Nationals Results
This years Indoor Duration Nationals were held for the first time over 3 days in the 37ft high WW2 hangar at RAF Digby in Lincolnshire.
An excellent attendance combined with brilliant weather conditions made for very competitive flying, along with a healthy fun flying atmosphere.
With an overwhelming positive response from all of those attending the Indoor Technical Committee will attempt to build on this format for 2009.
Please see the attached for full list of results. indoor-nats-2008mb.pdf revised 23/09/08
A full report will be forthcoming within the BMFA News
First Person RC - Press Release
Please follow this link to open up the press release relating to first person RC:
CL Centralised Results 07-09-08
The only CL Centralised competitions scheduled for
7th September were Speed and Team Race.
speed-centralised-results-07-09-08.pdf
2008-speed-league-08-09-08.pdf
Manchester Velodrome 18th October 12pm-8pm
Dear All
We have made the decision to alter the start and finish times for the event to ensure that the cycling event beforehand is complete. This should provide the best conditions without air disturbance. See below.
Apologies for the late information.
Manchester Velodrome
Manchester.
The Gyminnie Cricket Challenge, Indoor Free flight & Indoor ScaleSaturday 18th October 2008. (12.00pm – 8.00pm)
All indoor FF models & Scale FF welcome, No RC. Grand Final for the Gyminnie Cricket Challenge, F1D, F1L, F1M, 35cm, Pennyplane, Limited Pennyplane. (F1D,F1M &F1L flown on partial motors TBC)
Gym shoes & Proof of BMFA membership required. Contact: Mark on 01733-755733 or Allan mark.benns@ntlworld.com or littleal28@btinternet.com
Directions can be obtained from the Manchester Velodrome website at the following location http://www.manchestervelodrome.com/static_info/find_us.htm
Go to http://www.bmfa.org/tech/indoor/index.php The Indoor Technical Committee
Free Flight European Flight Championships
In the F1C power class, team GBR have won the Team Silver medal!
Alan Jack (7th) and Stafford Screen (9th) made the fly-offs while Peter Watson (12th) just missed, dropping a mere 8 seconds in 22:00 minutes flying time over seven flights.
In F1A (glider) both Chris Edge (18th) and Mike Cook (19th) made the fly-off while
Peter Williams dropped 30 seconds to place 49th. The Team made 5th place – top of the teams who didn’t get all three into the fly-offs - the standard at these events is very high indeed!
In F1B (
Wakefield - rubber powered) our luck was out. Russ Peers dropped 20 seconds to place 33rd, Peter Martin dropped 27 seconds to place 36th and Ray Jones dropped a total of 83 seconds over two flights for 55th. Ray was 5th in the World Champs in 2005 so we know he had a bad day here!
The nine team members made a total of 63 flights, scoring 56 maximum scores and dropping an average of 24 seconds in each of the other 7 flights. When they are not flying, team members are lift spotting or retrieving and had to work very hard in high temperatures over less than ideal terrain.
But all were rewarded!
Team GBR are thrilled to announce that they were declared winners of the Jack North Trophy for the overall best team at the European Free Flight Championships. The Trophy was presented to the FAI by the BMFA about ten years ago in memory of Jack North. Jack was a Croydon club member and famous Free Flight expert, who represented GBR four times between 1952 and 1967. He appeared twice in glider and once each in rubber and power. In his day job, Jack was a well known professional aerodynamicist.
Mike Fantham FSMAE