2023 Nostalgic Speed Nationals at BMFA Buckminster On the 12th and 13th of August the Nostalgic Speed Nationals event was held at BMFA Buckminster. The weather was rather windy all weekend with average wind speeds around 15mph and regular gusts up to about 30mph so the conditions were challenging, particularly for some of the smaller,… Read More »
The 2023 BMFA CL speed Nationals were once again hosted at the Barton control line flying site, the CL speed Nationals is held at the Barton site rather than the BMFA Buckminster site due to the number of pulse jet models that are entered in BMFA Open speed and these are prohibited from flying at… Read More »
We have great pleasure in linking everyone to the CL Speed Nationals entry form, this will be held on the 19th and 20th of August at Barton and practise is available from midday on Friday. 2023 CL speed Nats entry Form You just have to contact Dick Hart to enter, you can do this by… Read More »
Three CL speed meetings have been held in the UK so far during the 2023 season, two at Barton and one at Buckminster. Pulse jets tend to be the most popular models flown at Barton and F2A and 12’s are the main models flown at Buckminster. The 12 models which are all based on F2A… Read More »
Please see in the following link the latest Barton CL contest calender. https://cl-speed.bmfa.uk/barton-calendar-2023-revised
Final reminder/memory jogger about the upcoming speed training day at Buckminster. Any questions then just ask. Barrie CL Speed Training Day advert
Alan Lee 1945-2023 This is a collection of memories of Alan that I have set down after talking to his lifelong friend Ken Morrissey. Alan, his elder brother Trevor and Ken started flying together in 1960, learning to fly control line with Keil Kraft Champs powered by ED Bees. They joined the Sharston Model Flying… Read More »
In the contest calendar section there is the new 2023 UK CL speed contest calendar. What is very clear is that there is a full calendar of events at superb flying facilities, so no excuses not to get out and compete. In addition, we are running a speed training day at Buckminster on the 25th… Read More »
The last two BMFA Centralised Open speed meetings of the 2022 season were held on the 24th/25th September and the 16th October. Entries were low for the September meeting, but meaningful results were obtained. The final meeting was held last Sunday the 16th October, the turnout was better and the results were incredibly close in… Read More »
The dates 1st through to 4th September saw the running of the GB/Italian (Coppa D’Oro 59a) combined F2A/F2G World Cup event in Lugo Italy. This established event forms part of the popular FAI/CIAM F2A World Cup series ( F2 Control Line World Cup | World Air Sports Federation (fai.org) ). The first two days of… Read More »