F1C Free Flilght World Championship Team Bronze

2017 FAI Championships – Team Silver for Great Britain.

2017 FAI Championships - A new British World Champion and the first of the 2017 season’s medals for Great Britain.

The 2017 Power Nats Camping & Spectator Booking Form is now available.

The five entry forms for the 2017 RC Power National Championships & the Silent Flight National Championships can be downloaded from the Nationals website at http://bmfa-nats.org/entry-booking-forms 

THE 2017 FREE FLIGHT FORUM The thirty-third BMFA Free-Flight Forum will start at 10 a.m. on Nov. 19th, the day after the AGM, at the Hinckley Island Hotel, A5 Watling Street, Hinckley, LE10 3JA. As usual we have a wide range of presentations on free-flight, so come along, find out what makes this branch of our sport so enjoyable and enjoy a day with these speakers: Why FAI? - Stuart Darmon; Designing for Scale Competition - Andy Sephton; Experience with Making Carbon/Foam "Moulded" Wings - Ala...

The new BMFA members handbook has been released and is available to view online and download from http://handbook.bmfa.org/   Hardcopies will be included with the next BMFA News.  

Norman Butcher FSMAE; 15.10.1928 – 13.08.2017   It is with great regret that I inform you of the passing of Norman Butcher FSMAE at the age of 89. A prolific and successful aeromodeller, Norman always had two ambitions, the first being to earn a living from the model trade and the second to achieve success in competition. He succeeded magnificently in both. Coming through the then traditional routes of glider and rubber power in the 1940s, he moved on to i.c. power, creating many of his own...

The Department for Transport (DfT) has now published the outcome of their consultation on the safe use of drones in the UK.  The document can be viewed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/631638/unlocking-the-uks-high-tech-economy-consultation-on-the-safe-use-of-drones-in-the-uk-government-response.pdf The document has evidently caused some concern within the model flying community and has set some ‘hares running’.  As such, I thought that it would ...

The latest news letter from the Scale Technical Commitee can be downloaded from the link below. https://www.bmfa.org/Downloads/All-Downloads?Command=Core_Download&EntryId=2209