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The Royal Aero Club (RAeC) Trust and Ancestry.co.uk have launched a worldwide search to uncover missing images of over 200 pioneer aviators.

Family history enthusiasts and local history communities are being urged to help find the images which accompany a number of Aviators’ Certificates held in the Trust’s extensive archive (www.royalaeroclubcollection.org), which includes over 28,000 index records and 34 albums, or “volumes”, containing about 13,000 photographs of early aviators.

Like a modern passport, these certificates were given to pilots who, in the early days of the First World War, successfully completed their initial training through the Royal Aero Club before joining the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) or the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) for active service. The licence required the submission of two photographs, one of which was pasted into the licence; the other was retained by the Club.

“Unfortunately, Volume 4 is missing, so volunteers from the Royal Aero Club Trust are busy compiling a “virtual” replacement album, drawing on photographs from other sources,” explains Andrew Dawrant, a trustee of the Royal Aero Club Trust. “Thanks to Cross & Cockade, the First World War Historical Aviation Society, we now have replacement images in about two-thirds of the cases. But nearly 200 photographs are still missing.”

“We are urging any budding history sleuths, or anyone with an interest or family connection with the early days of flying to go to http://blogs.ancestry.com/uk/2011/08/08/help-find-the-missing-heroes-of-world-war-i/ or http://blogs.ancestry.com/uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/AeroClubTrust_Find-Missing-Heroes1.pdf and help us track these images down, whether they are from personal collections, school photos, newspapers or obituaries.

If you can provide a copy of one of these missing photographs, or if you have any ideas about where may be a good place to look, please email us at royalaeroclubgb@googlemail.com. It is important for us to fill in the gaps in these records, both to commemorate the lives of those brave pilots, and also to provide a complete historical record.”

Please see below, a rule change notified by the Silent FLight Technical Committee:

BMFA CONTEST RULES

SECTION 7

BOOK 1

GLIDERS

PAGE 19
5.3.2.2. LAUNCHING GENERAL.

DELETE PARAGRAPH 3

REPLACE WITH
Launching may be made by winches but only if each winch meets in all respects paragraph 5.3.2.2.in the FAI rule book from (a) through to (s) Take special note of the battery specification.
In addition launches may be made by fitting the model with a suitable electric motor and propeller with appropriate battery and control equipment. The point at which the motor is cut shall be controlled by a height limiting device of the type specified on Page 32 in BMFA CONTEST RULES BOOK 2 ELECTROFLIGHT.
The actual height of the cut-off to be determined before the start of the contest task based on the height expected to be reached during a typical launch by means of a winch.

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F2D 4th Centralised Results F2D 4th Centralised Results 10-07-11

2011 F2A Speed Leagues 2011 Speed Leagues 14-08-11 Rev 1

2011 F2B Team Selection Table 2011 F2B League Updated 07-08-11

2011 F2C Team Selection Table 2011 F2C TS Spreadsheet 07-08-11

2011 F2D Team Selection Table 2011 F2D Team Points 10-07-11

Breaking News!!!!

Ken Morrissey has made two world record flights in F2A (Control Line Speed) in the 2011 European Championships. In Round 1 he recorded a speed of 304.3 kph and then in Round 2 he recorded a speed of 304.4 kph. The existing world record is 302.5. There are two more rounds of the Championship still to go.