The following e-mail was sent to all members today Attached is the Annual Report for 2023 which is also on our website. It’s quite a hefty tome, but it will save us boring you to death at the AGM and also provides a good historical record for the club. I have had about 10 responses… Read More »
We are holding the AGM in the Sports Hall on Sat 25th Nov at 2.30pm. This is designed to straddle the mid point of the afternoons mixed RC and FF flying. It should encourage brevity and it saves us money hiring the conference room!! The agenda is below and is also on the website (meetings… Read More »
The committee has been very pleased to see a considerable number of indoor RC flyers at the first few sessions this autumn. Whilst this is great to see, it has led to a few mid-air collisions which have resulted in smaller fragile models being badly damaged. Whilst not wanting to make rules for the sake… Read More »
Once again we have the RTP chaps in the gym this Saturday from 1pm to 5pm. Everyone is welcome to pop in to see them and admire their scale models with several new creations to be flown for the first time – one of these is a Fairey Rotordyne which is being rushed to completion… Read More »
Just a reminder that our bookings for the field on Friday evenings have now ended for the summer. We do not have the field booked for this Friday. Indoor flying starts again this Saturday 16th Sept and this is an RC session. We ended the indoor flying last April with a FF session and to… Read More »
We have had quite a few new members recently and many of them are drone / quad flyers. We have slightly tweaked the guidelines for RC flying at IVC on Friday evenings to try to get a bit of separation from other activities at busy times. We are avoiding too many hard and fast rules… Read More »
This was also held during the Birthday Bash and some extracts are in the video here. Generally there was the usual commendable level of incompetence shown except for the stand out winner Greg Bradley who achieved 13 passes in 1 minute with his foamy 3D model – shown below receiving his trophy from Alan. The… Read More »
This was held on Sunday 9th July and despite the dodgy weather forecast we had a warm and sunny day with generally light winds. A great turnout of about 50 FF, CL and RC pilots enjoyed the flying, banter and Steves BBQ. Thanks to everyone who came along and especially to the cook Steve. We… Read More »
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 »