This is our annual fly in to celebrate the clubs birthday and founding in 1946. Everyone is welcome and we have booked the field from 9am to 5pm. You can drive your car onto the field (sharp right after the houses). The gate should be open but for future ref the lock code is 1468.… Read More »
A special reminder of our Birthday Bash all day fly in at Impington on Sunday 9th July – all the details are on the website Annual Birthday Bash and BMFA Round the World challenge – Impington Village College Model Aeroplane Club Feel free to come along for the whole day or parts of it as… Read More »
You may have seen a news article about a fatal model plane accident in Spain earlier this month. A man was walking out to retrieve his model at a well established club when he was hit on the head by a large turbine powered model coming in to land. He was killed instantly by his… Read More »
John Copsey is organising an F2b competition at Girton this Sunday 11th June. It is for the Ray Malmstrom Cup which is awarded annually. If you haven’t seen CL aerobatics before and want to see the top pilots (plus John) in action, do go along. If you are a less experienced CL pilot, speak to… Read More »
The following information was sent to all club members on 5th June Impington is a very rare club where we have a regular Friday meeting and fly a varied mix of Free Flight, Control Line, Fixed Wing Radio and Quads / Drones. We also aim to have a very light touch on rules and are… Read More »
Club member Tim Coles has six AXi 4120/14V2 motors and one AXi 4120/20 motor for sale. These are all brand new in boxes and never run. They were bought for a project but not needed. AXI 4120/14 V2 Brushless Motor 3EL10555V2, Model Shop Leeds These are large motors and retail at approx. £150 each but… Read More »
23 of us joined in yesterday and managed to fly 36 models at noon – 2 up on last year due to cunning methods being employed. A full report will be in the next newsletter, but a video of the carnage is below. Thanks also to Chris Constant who took the photo at the end… Read More »
Just a reminder that we are taking part in the BMFAs attempt to break last years record of 3,109 models in the air across the country at 12 noon We have booked the Sports Hall from 11am to 1pm this Sunday 14th. This is for mixed RC and FF flying with a break at noon… Read More »
Well, the indoor flying season has finished for this winter – it seems to have gone well with plenty of people coming along on Saturday afternoons. If you have any comments, please let me have them for the committee to review. The indoor dates in the run up to Christmas are now on the website… Read More »
This Saturday from 1pm to 5pm is indoor free flight flying in the sports hall, but we have a special treat as the round the pole flyers are coming and have booked the gym from 1 to 5pm. Some of them have travelled from a great distance to fly here for the first time since… Read More »