Early start, breakfast at 06:30, buses to the mine arrive at 07:30 Today is a day of free practice allowing competitors to finalise model set up for main and reserve models, not a great deal happening except get flights in, check and confirm trim, speculate on the drift for the competition days and get around … Read More
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F1D World Champs day 4 official practice
F1D World Champs Day 3 Otto Hints Trophy
Friday and things are hotting up (as far as they can in a cold Salt mine), UK team used the day mostly for setting up and practice, strangely Tony’s No 1 model sustained damage overnight and had a broken tailplane in the morning setting him back by several hours. The first full motor flights were … Read More
F1D World champs update 21/03/2024
Breakfast at 06:30 buses at 7:30 for an early start to a long day Today is day one of the Otto Hints trophy, this event is open to all European F1D flyers and held in accordance with the current rules, there was a large number of people present, flyers, assistants, time keepers plus others, this … Read More
The fully interactive February issue of the BMFA News is now online.
The new fully interactive online versions are now online. You can view the latest issue at https://online.fliphtml5.com/doorh/mina The BMFA News Archive is now available at https://bmfa.org/bmfa-news If you would like to submit articles please email the editor at editor@bmfanews.org
Vacancy – Team Manager, F5B World Championships, USA 10th-15th November
The Silent Flight Technical Committee invites applications for the post of Team Manager for the British F5B team competing in the World Championships to be held in Maricopa, Arizona, USA 10-15 November 2024*. The role of the Team Manager includes arranging international and local travel for team members and their equipment, co-ordinating with organisers before … Read More
F3F Team Manager Vacancy
The Silent Flight Technical Committee invites applications for the post of Team Manager for the British F3F team competing in the World Championships to be held in Limoux, France 6-12 October 20241. The role of the Team Manager includes arranging international and local travel for team members and their equipment, co-ordinating with organisers before and … Read More
BMFA Membership fees for 2024
The Board of the BMFA took an action from the Society AGM on Saturday 18th to look at the membership fees for Junior members. The board are meeting this week to do so and a statement on membership fees for all membership classes for 2024 will be posted later this week.
Team Manager position for the next F9U World Drone Racing Championship
Applications are invited to the post of Team Manager for the next F9U World Drone Racing Championship. The F9U calendar currently schedules a World Championship every year and although the date and host nation of the next WDRC hasn’t been announced yet, we anticipate it will be towards the end of 2024. Our experience this … Read More
Model flying within the RAF Waddington Danger Area
With the relocation of the RAF Red Arrows, and the introduction of the unmanned Protector aircraft to RAF Waddington, the RAF have established a danger area with a radius of 5 nautical miles around RAF Waddington, which is generally active Mon-Fri between 0800-1630hrs.p Whilst active, the danger area prohibits the operation of any aircraft, including … Read More
F9U Drone Racing World Championships, Namwon, Korea, Team GBR Report
We have been receiving daily reports from the GBR F9U Drone Racing Team Manager for the World Championships that have just finished in Korea. You can read the pilot bios and daily reports at https://bmfa.org/gbr-teams/f9u-world-championships. Many thanks to Team Manager David Allen for such interesting daily reports and a huge congratulations for all the Team … Read More