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.
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 »