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The British F2A Speed Team, consisting of Peter Halman, Paul Eisner and Ken Morrisey, has once again taken the Team Gold Medal at the F2 Control Line World Championships in Landres, France. Their combined speed was 881.8 k.p.h. beating Hungary’s 863.9 k.p.h. into second place, by 17.9 k.p.h. with Italy’s 863.6 k.p.h. in third place.

This is the 12th consecutive year of World & European Championships that the speed team have taken the gold medal, an unprecedented achievement by any team in any category of model flying anywhere in the world.

Peter Halman was placed fourth with a best flight of 295.8 k.p.h. using the “Halman Special” Irvine engine. The contest was very close as he was only 0.1 k.p.h. from third place, and 0.5 k.p.h. behind the winner. Ken Morrissey placed sixth with a speed of 294.7 k.p.h. with Paul Eisner placed tenth with a speed of 291.3 k.p.h.

In F2B Aerobatics, Robert Kitley placed forty third, Barry Robinson placed forty fourth and Roy Cherry was fiftieth. The overall team placing was thirteenth.

All three F2C team team race teams were hopeful of making the semi-finals but with a cut off time a very fast 3 minutes 11.4 seconds it was going to be a very tough task. In the end, Mike Fitzgerald and Mark Thomason finished fifteenth with a fastest time of 3 minutes 15.5 seconds, Rob Leeman and John Broadhead were twenty first with a fastest time of 3 minutes 22.5 seconds and Malcolm Ross and Gordon Yeldham were twenty eighth with a fastest time of 3 minutes 29.5. As a team they were placed sixth.

Finally, in the F2D Combat category, Mervyn Jones placed eighth, Mike Whillance was twentieth with the team placing ninth.

John James

From Ripmax

We are pleased to announce that with immediate effect we are instigating a full exchange programme for all early 6EX 2.4GHz transmitters supplied by Ripmax. As we have widely publicised, a small number of early 6EX 2.4GHz transmitters had been incorrectly coded, which could have caused problems if two of these sets had been in operation together. The actions we took at the time meant that any potential issues were resolved. However, we have taken the decision that the only 100% secure course of action long term is to remove all of the early transmitters from the market and replace them with updated transmitters.

As we are now well into the flying season we want to ensure that owners of these transmitters do not miss out due to their transmitters being on their way back to us. To avoid these possible delays, the exchange will be carried out via model shops, where owners in the local area will bring in their old transmitter, and will in exchange receive the new replacement, all customers will have to pre-register for the exchange.

For full details of the exchange programme please visit the Ripmax website at www.ripmax.com At this web address you will be able to register for the programme by completing a simple online form. For those without web access, please write to Ripmax at 6EX Exchange Programme, 241 Green Street, Enfield, Middx, EN3 7SJ, providing your full name and address, contact phone number, Ripmax serial number/s of your set/s, and details of the model shop you would like to collect your replacement transmitter/s from.

Please note that shops will NOT hold stock, but will be sent the required number of new transmitters to exchange within 10 workings days of receipt of completed registration forms.

We are pleased to report international competition success for the British Team attending the F4C (R/C Scale) World Championships held at Wloclawek, Poland (11th – 20th July, 2008).

The team have achieved Bronze medal, with Silver going to Switzerland and Gold going to the Czech Republic.

Individual results were as follows:

Peter McDermott FSMAE - DH9A - 4th place
Dave Knott - Hawker Hurricane - 9th place
Dave Womersley - DeHavilland Chipmunk - 21st place

In the Large Scale class, Peter McDermott achieved Gold medal position with his magnificent DH9A.

Team Manager was Gordon Warburton FSMAE.

Congratulations to all involved!

The BMFA Silent Flight Nationals which were scheduled to be held at Lodge Farm, North Rauceby, Near Ancaster are subject to a change of venue.

The Silent Flight Nationals have been relocated to the Prince William of Gloucester Barracks, Grantham (Spitalgate), the venue used for last years event.

We are pleased to report competition success for the British Team attending the FAI-F3C (Aerobatic Helicopter) European Championships held at Maubeuge, France (5th – 12th July, 2008).

The team took 3rd place, behind France (2nd) and Austria (1st) having endured some ‘less than ideal’ weather conditions through the course of the competition.

Two of our pilots made the fly-off, Steve Roberts (6th) was the highest placed, with Mark Christy at 14th. Dave Fisher was just outside the fly-off at 17th.