Maurice Doyle, FSMAE It is with deep sadness that we report the death of Maurice Doyle, FSMAE on Saturday 19th October after a short illness. Dearly loved partner of Norma, much loved husband of the late Helen, father of Nicola and Philip and grandfather of Anna, Charlie, Lucy, Amy and Rachel. Following a private family … Read More
Maurice Doyle, FSMAE
Gold! 2024 European F3N Championships, Aabenraa, Denmark. Day 8
Phew! Today’s music round was the one that decided our fate in the team placings. It really went down to the very last pilot before we knew where we had come. I’m really pleased and immensely proud to say that the GBR F3N team won! It has been a tough week, with a few highs … Read More
Silver! 2024 F4 Scale World Championships Day 10 report
I’ll keep this brief, we’ve not long got back from an awesome day at the field (followed by the banquet), none of our lads were flying today, it’s all over and this is basically a final result summary. F4B (Control Line) Danny did plenty enough to secure the Silver medal, 2nd best in the World … Read More
2024 European F3C Championships, Aabenraa, Denmark. Day 8
The 2024 European F3CN championships are over and we are well on our way home. Yesterday was finals day for F3C and we were fortunate to have both Mark and Steve into the finals which only the top 14 get into. Two rounds were flown to decide the eventual winner. The exciting thing is that … Read More
New GBR European Champion! 2024 European F3N Championships, Aabenraa, Denmark. Day 7
Another long day though we did get a bit of a lie in this morning due to the rain. The F3C round which was meant to start at 8.30am, didn’t actually get going until 12noon. There was another break for rain for about 1.5 hours and they finally got going again just after 3pm. In … Read More
2024 European F3C Championships, Aabenraa, Denmark. Day 7
Today was round 2 of the semi finals and the forecast had been for rain until mid to late morning. We woke up and got ready as planned and yes, it was raining but the forecast was still for it to stop. Ian was the first of us to fly and was in the first … Read More
2024 F4 Scale World Championships Day 9 report
In summary Day 9 proved to be a little lesson in Team Management, some things I got right and others I barely got away with! We hardly needed to rush down to the airfield: 10:30am was the scheduled start time so a relaxed breakfast and a diversion enroute to pick up gallons of water and … Read More
2024 European F3N Championships, Aabenraa, Denmark. Day 6
It was the first of the Finals rounds today (Set Manoeuvres) with the top 10 pilots making it through. For anyone unsure of how the scoring works, all of the Preliminary rounds are amalgamated into one score (with the lowest being dropped) and those scores are then normalised to 1000. A Final Sets round plus … Read More
2024 European F3C Championships, Aabenraa, Denmark. Day 6
As I’m writing this, I’m still at our house waiting for the rain to stop along with Mark. The flying order for today’s second round of the semi finals has Ian up 6th in the running order with Mark and myself a little later in the morning. Today’s plan was for Ian to head to … Read More
2024 F4 Scale World Championships Day 8 report
Early start this morning and a late finish! Thanks to the local bank holiday flying started at 8:00am with the last flights of F4C round 1. Also scheduled for 8:00am, and the reason for our early arrival, was the F4B (control line) meeting and with Danny competing in F4B we needed to be there. The … Read More