Scale Free Flight Brief No 41 January 2022
General
All outdoor BMFA Scale Competitions Cancelled
The outdoor RC and FF scale competition calendar is cancelled from now until further notice. When the C 19 situation stabilises, the BMFA Scale Technical Committee will then see how many events can be re-instated, depending upon the time scales involved. Hopefully, we can get back to normal in a period of a few short … Read More
NW Area Gala at the Manchester Velodrome
The NW Free Flight Gala at the Manchester Velodrome is now a well-established and much anticipated annual event. Various duration classes are flown, plus Peanut, Pistachio and Flying Only Open Scale. This year, for some reason, the turnout was disappointingly low with only 11 flyers arriving at this super venue. Fortunately though, all eleven of … Read More
Scale Uncovered March 15th
Graham Kennedy is running the Scale Uncovered event on March 15th at Buckminster. Intended to show how easy and unthreatening entry into a BMFA competition is. To give guidance on how to fly and how to produce the necessary documents. To take away the perceived barriers to participation right from club level, up to the … Read More
World Championship Team for Norway
World Championship team for 2020 The FAI F4 Scale World Championships will be held at Jarlsberg Flying sports centre Tonsberg Norway on July 25th till August 1st 2020. The Scale Technical Committee are pleased to announce that the team who will represent Great Britain in the F4H class are Steven Jackson, John Carpenter and Richard … Read More
Team Manager’s Application for 2020 World Championships in Norway
New SAM 35 RC Competition
Information from Ian Lever on the new 3 channel RC scale competition to be held at the BMFA National Flying Centre Buckminster on June 28th, 29th & 30th, as part of the SAM 35 Vintage and Retro models event. Click on title to read more.
National Team Selection a message from STC Chairman Andy Sephton
Dear All, With the aim of improving the performance of our F4C and F4H National Teams the STC has revised the process that will be used to select our teams for the 2020 FAI F4 World Championships. A copy of the new selection process is held on here under Competition News. You will also find … Read More
Veron Truflite Trophy
The STC are pleased to announce that due to the efforts of Jim Wright and Doug Hunt, there is a new trophy to be presented at the Indoor Scale Free Flight Nationals this year. It was agreed at the last STC meeting to present the Veron Truflite Trophy, in memory of Phil Smith, to the … Read More
Indoor RC Scale Nationals
Due to licence issues concerning the venue at RAF Shawbury, the provoisional date proposed to hold the Indoor RC Scale Nationals on March 24th 2019 has been postponed. Hopefully a licence will be issued shortly and a slightly later date in the spring can be arranged. If it is not possible to agree a licence … Read More