12 class There is good news regarding the 12 class trainer kits, the models have been shipped from France by Matthieu Perret, they will arrive in the UK shortly and will then be distributed to the customers who ordered them. It will be very interesting to see these models and hopefully, some fliers will have… Read More »
Happy New Year Firstly a Happy 2024 to all our subscribers, let’s hope for a good year and fast speeds whatever your chosen class and wherever you are flying and competing. BMFA 2024 Calendar In the link below, you will see the 2024 BMFA CL speed contest calendar, this shows all of the BMFA Open… Read More »
For those of you who did not get time to take part in the webinar on 12PRR and Italian Sport Jet then click on the link below to see the presentation material. The webinar will also be placed on YouTube when the BMFA IT guy gets back from holiday. Getting Started This has both the… Read More »
This is a final reminder about the CL Speed ITAT webinar that is being held tomorrow night at 7PM London time. The webinar will be hosted by Dick Hart and other Speedcom members, among discussion points will be the new classes for 2024, these are Italian Sport Jet and 12 PRR (personal record ratio) this… Read More »
It is with deep regret that we have to inform the CL speed community of the passing of Dick McGladdery, whilst Dick was not a former World Champion or a master craftsman he was one of the true characters of CL speed flying. Dick was of strong enough character to follow his own intuition on… Read More »
Continuing with the news from the USA here we have some snippets from the recent F2A World Cup meeting in St Louis, all text is from Paul Gibault. St Louis World Cup Nearly everyone did a personal best with their Profi’s. Will Namura & I had almost no success with Will’s Kostin powered models. (Yeah,… Read More »
The weekend of the 14th and 15th October saw the last round of the BMFA CL speed competitions for 2023. As normal the pulse jet models flew at Barton and the smaller IC models flew in the BMFA F2 circle at Buckminster, both are great facilities and we are lucky in England to have these… Read More »
This is a first for this website, we are reporting on a speed meeting in the USA. For those readers outside of the USA we should give a bit of background information, Whittier Narrows is a flying site provided by the city of Los Angeles and it has specific CL speed circles along with a… Read More »
The September speed meetings took place over a weekend when the weather was looking really threatening and might spoil the weekends flying. However good contest management expedited the competition flights and thus missed the rain. Jet flying took place at Barton while at Buckminster the F2A and the majority of the 12’s flying was happening.… Read More »
Video from Barton September 2023, 210 mph fast jet flight and 149 mph Italian Sport Jet flight. A good meeting which defied the weather forecast.