Fly 4 Fun Competition Photos (2021)

Thank you to Ant Jervis for organising this competition on Sunday 18th July 2021, and to Andy Gough for taking the pictures
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Scale Weekend 2021 – lockdown relief

Ant Jervis is organising yet another Scale Weekend for 14th and 15th August at one of our slopes. Scale Gliders are usually in abundance of all types both modern and ancient. It is an event not to be missed. If you are a modeller and want to come along, we usually start around 10am and
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New Flying Rules Published

Some or all of you will have received an email from the BMFA announcing that finally the Civil Aviation Authority have agreed the final format of the rules for Civil Aviation Authority licensing. As most modellers know the rules have been established after much hard negotiation. Other articles have been published both on this site
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LMMGA Large Scale Event (2019)

by Bob Jennings For more pictures, see the Competition Photographs Page The last line of Keith’s original email for this event went ‘Fingers crossed for fine  weather and light winds’. Well, one out of two was pretty good going.  Arriving early afternoon on the Saturday there was already a good selection of scale gliders  and their
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CAA & BMFA Flying Rules Published

On December 6th 2020 we received an email from BMFA which detailed the rules and procedure for flying Model Aircraft in this country. I can do no better than to copy and paste the email which is clear and speaks for itself. If things change, hopefully, this page will be updated. “The UK adopted the
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RAFMAA Weekend up the Leek Slopes

Here is a letter of thanks we received from RAFMAA for the use of our slopes for their weekend of fun flying “Good evening Keith, Gentlemen, Greetings once again from the RAF Model Aircraft Association. I hope this email finds you all well.  My apologies that it has taken so long to send this email. I’m
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PSSA Orme Event (October 2019)

“It’s such a perfect day, I’m so glad I spent it with you” Lou Reed, 1972, Transformer Album, produced by David Bowie. I was 15 and impressionable, how old were you? If you answer “older” then you may have attended day one of the Orme Fly-In on the weekend of 12th and 13th October 2019.
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PSSA Orme (October 2019)

This PSSA event attracted around 50 modellers and up to 150 models. To read all about it see the online story in our News Section – click here
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Scale Weekend 2019

This annual competition organised by Ant Jervis attracts a large crowd of scale modellers from all round the country. These photographs were taken by Bob Jennings, so thanks to him. To see the whole album of pictures and videos, go to Bob’s Facebook Page here – https://www.facebook.com/bob.jennings.712/posts/10219479474400181. The event is usually held during the 3rd weekend
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Bosley Minn Flying News

Today was a South Easterly wind which meant that the flying was either at Bosley Minn, or on Mam Tor. Because of the Whaley  Bridge dam situation, all the roads from Macclesfield to Chapel would be shut. Keith would also struggle walking up Mam Tor unti he felt better so it was either going to
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