BMFA CONTROL LINE SPEED NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS BARTON MODEL FLYING CLUB 5th, 6th ,7th September 2025 The 2025 BMFA Control line speed Nationals were once again held at the Barton Model Flying Club site near Manchester. The Barton club had done a great job in preparing the site for the Speed Nationals. The weather was very… Read More »

BMFA Open Speed meeting 27/04/2025 Barton club site. The meeting was blessed with a sunny and warmish day, a light SW wind with a RAD of around 1 first thing which finished up around .98 by mid-afternoon. Joe Gough agreed to go first and be the guinea pig to find out which metering jet and… Read More »

The 2024 BMFA CL speed National Championships were once again held at the Barton Club site near Manchester on the 30th , 31st August and 1st September 2024. Competitors were arriving from Friday morning, the weather was good on all 3 days with better weather on the Friday and Saturday, competition flights started by around… Read More »

Final reminder for getting your entries into Dick Hart for the UK BMFA CL speed Nationals. The event will be held at the Barton Club site on the 30th, 31st August and the 1st September, we use the Barton site for this event as around half the entries are pulse jets and these cannot fly… Read More »

The CL speed training day is coming up fast !! The event will be held at BMFA Buckminster on Saturday 13th April (10AM arrival) Hard circle at BMFA Buckminster The scope of the speed training day has developed in the last couple of years to also encompass a sharing of ideas and techniques, almost like… Read More »

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 »