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 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.  

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 ...

NPA 2017-05(A) Introduction of a regulatory framework for the operation of drones The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) began the process to create a regulatory framework for the operation of drones in 2015, when in August they published the A-NPA 2015/10 – “Introduction of a regulatory framework for the operation of drones”.  This document appeared to offer a number of concessions and safeguards to avoid a negative impact on the long established activity of model flying.  Europe Air S...

The new National Visitor Centre and Model Flying site opens at 9am on Monday 8th May for model aircraft flying. See the National Centre website at http://nationalcentre.bmfa.org/ for further details. Check the status box on the front page of the website for the proposed activity over the coming three days (continuous update). But the aim is to run sport R/C as the primary activity for the first three days with control line circles also in operation and to accommodate season ticket holders as ...

A season ticket is a positive way of supporting the BMFA National Flying Site and Visitor Centre Project as well as attracting those who are intending to be regular users of BMFA Buckminster. The initial rates also reflect the fact that the site will open part way through the year and the early months will see reduced facilities until the runway seeding becomes established. The season ticked should be considered as a ‘midweek flyers ticket’, The price for 2017 is based on the equivalent of...