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 speed and Vintage speed meetings along with some International events. The calendar will get additions to it in the way of further information regarding International World Cup meetings and the like, but the National dates will remain very rigid as set out in the calendar. Start planning the competitions that you will attend now.
BMFA 2024 CL speed calendar.
12 Class updates
There has been a great response to the recent CL speed ITAT (link to YouTube video of the webinar) which promoted the 12 class model and 12PRR. We have strong registrations of interest and all of the CMBL trainer models that were ordered to facilitate getting into CL speed and the 12 PRR class in particular are now spoken for. Peter Halman has prepared 8 off Irvine 12 engines for competitors to purchase, most of these engines are spoken for at the time of writing. Remember that the 12 class is not exclusively for Irvine powered models, competitors can use any commercial 12 engine and we know that competitors are also considering both the Nova Rossi and OS engines.
CMBL speed training kits ready for dispatch
Peter Halman prepared Irvine 12’s
We also have a section on this websites forum pages to discuss and review 12 class news, the link is below.
12 class forum area.
International News
We are pleased to have recently made contact again with Alessandro Rossetti. Alessandro was the development engineer at OPS engines for many years, and has a keen interest in all performance models but particularly CL speed and tether cars. Alessandro is now retired and spending his time making some very nice looking CL speed models.
Alessandro Rossetti and Leonardo Garofali with Alessandro’s winning G20 powered model.
Alessandro Rossetti’s OPS 3.5 powered Weatherman
Alessandro Rossetti’s beautiful ‘Trofeo G15’ model
1970’s OPS advert