For the PROVISIONAL FAC Event – Simplified Power Scale, the wingspan restrictions have been removed.
Rules are HERE.
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Per the online community, Eric Clutton died yesterday after suffering a stroke last week. He was 93.
Get on your Bad Bleriot and Ride!
Thanks to Lyman Hatz (on Facebook)!
From Frank Scott and Michael Smith, McCook Squadron, Dayton, Ohio
OK Skysters, get your Bill Warner designed Sky Bunnies ready for the big memorial SKY BUNNY MASKed LAUNCH. This is now OPEN TO EVERYONE as a world-wide Fun-Fly. Post your times, photos, videos, and tales of adventure (and mis-adventure!) online, try the McCook Facebook Page or the FAC-GHQ Facebook Page!
As you all know, we chose to cancel/postpone the upcoming June 6-7 McCook Field Aero Squadron contest at Muncie due to the threat and logistic complications arising from the Covid 19 infection. We intended the final activity at this contest to be a Mass Launch of Sky Bunnies in tribute to the memory of Bill Warner.
June 07, 2020 at Twin Towers Park between Fairborn and Yellow Springs Ohio. Please be on site and ready no later than 3:30 PM EDST for the actual launch at 4:00PM EDST.
No Kanones, No fees, Just Flying camaraderie.
Because of the ongoing Covid-19 threat we respectfully ask everyone present to observe all appropriate safety procedures.
NOTE: You can get the Sky Bunny Kit from Peck Polymers click HERE.
Ed Novak reports a decision to CANCEL the scheduled contest at Durham Field (CT) on 14 June.
The latest FAC Rule Book is now online. There are very minor changes, all in red text.
- One of the “biggest” changes that there is now no minimum wingspan for Simplified Scale (so your Dimers now qualify for Simplified – although you cannot fly the same model in both events at the same contest).
- Polyspan and similar tissue-like films are permitted, however “plastic” coverings are still prohibited. (You can use mylar – but you must cover it with tissue.)
- A clarification on undercambered airfoils for Scale models – they are permitted where the original had undercamber. They are prohibited where the full scale never had it – and prohibited in Dime, regardless of the original configuration.
- Phantom Flash – minimum weight for “normal” events is 5g. Lighter ARE permitted, if the CD announces a “master” class event without weight restrictions. Both events can be run in one contest.
- Goodyear Races now permit “designed and built for”, not just “flown”.
That’s it! Download the new rules RIGHT HERE (or on the Rules page above on the menu).
EDITOR: Do NOT post nominations here. Read the message and send via email
I’m the Chair of the National Free Flight Society, (NFFS), Model of the Year Committee. I am very interested in finding out which designs or innovations impressed you most in 2019. We are looking for innovation, an excellent design or craftsmanship, and/or a stellar contest record. Models in consideration shall have been built and demonstrated recently, not in decades past.
We have an excellent committee of expert modelers who will select the winners. The winners will be widely publicized, and also displayed in the NFFS Symposium. The Symposium will be published and delivered this summer. It will be available through NFFS.
I would like nominations in Scale, FAI Outdoor, AMA Outdoor, and AMA/FAI Indoor. Or some technology, technique or device that is revolutionary.
Any modeler of any country is free to make a nomination or receive the award.
Send your nominations to me at tum25@bellsouth.net. My name is Dohrman Crawford.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Dohrman Crawford
Today, I stumbled upon this article written by our own Dennis Norman and published in the AMA’s Model Aviation magazine in 2016. It is full of interesting history and is good reading for new members and older members, alike.
http://modelaviation.com/flying-aces
Muncie and Geneseo – and probably other flying sites – have been hit with very wet conditions this year. FAC’er Tom Hallman sent in this “video of a modeler and equipment”. It’s not far from the truth…
Fly when you can! I’m sure I won’t be the only one at the non-Nats with untested planes!
–george