Time for an update on the 21N promotion. We know that five competitors have bought new engines and we know that one potential competitor already has 21 size engines, so this looks promising considering that this is still early days. The 21N promotion is being driven by Dick Hart, Chris Martindale and Barrie Lever with… Read More »
21N The Beginners’ Control Line Speed Class Welcome to part 2 of our introduction to flying and competing in CL speed events, the response to part 1 has been very encouraging we already have three newcomers committing to taking part in 21N CL speed, and the age range is encouraging as well. In this part… Read More »
Why fly Control Line speed? Well the short answer is that it is good fun, has great camaraderie, has interesting technology and finally is well organised. The origins Well it will come as no surprise to readers that pretty well as soon as control line flying was established that people would want to find out… Read More »
Well we held one of the most serious promotions for Control Line flying of any type on the evening of Tuesday 5th January. What a great success this Zoom webinar was, the BMFA have encouraged these webinars during the these difficult times, Dick Hart presented the webinar supported by fellow Barton Club speed fliers, if… Read More »
New regulations for BMFA members flying drones and model aircraft from 1st January 2021 Hello everyone, these new regulations are spelled out in more detail on the main BMFA website, hit the news button to read the details. Here is the link; https://bmfa.org/News/News-Page/ArticleID/2706/New-regulations-for-BMFA-Members-flying-drones-and-model-aircraft-after-31st-December If you fly control line models weighing over 1kg. fuelled and/or with… Read More »
Great news, we have a full contest calendar setup for the 2021 season, the only thing that will stop this is the weather or Covid restrictions.
There has been talk of constructing a hard circle at the BMFA Buckminster National aeromodelling centre for about the last three years, fund raising was put in motion and then things went quite, everyone thought the worst that the circle would never get built, well in the last 6 weeks there has been massive progress… Read More »
We have been very lucky to have a few notes from Dave Smith on his record breaking Formula 21 models. Dave Smith Formula 21 record holding model
Pulse Jet World record 31/08/2020
The NW flying lines website is a great site from the North West USA, there is a very active control line scene there, also a link to the Tarfu plan on that website.