NI-Aerobatics

NIAA Round 3 Newbuildings Sept 2011

The final round of the NIAA Aerobatics took place at NDMAC on the 2nd Saturday of September, the tail end of a Hurricane provided some interesting conditions, but 7 pilots braved the elements to see out the year’s aerobatic activity.  Results from Newbuildings Basic 1) Seamus Gibson 2) Robert McCartney 3) Aidan Lafferty Sportsman 1) [Continue]

Area Aerobatics 2011

  This weekend Mathew and his dad Trevor had organized round two of this year’s area aerobatics competition to be held at T-Mac. So a few off us took advantage and decided to stay over as luck would have it the strong winds disappeared and left us with  light winds and fantastic sunshine..   Here’s  a few photos from the [Continue]

NIAA Rnd 1, Seven Towers 17th April 2011

Sunday the 17th April saw the first round of the area aerobatics held at Seven Towers Club in Ballymena. We had perfect weather and the hospitality of the Seven Towers club was superb. [Continue]

IMAC NI Area Aerobatics 2011

UPDATED 28/03/11 Tyrella replaces Banbridge event It’s that time of year again to begin thinking about the area aerobatics in Northern Ireland for 2011.  The format is the same as last year, we will use IMAC Schedules, the exception is that we will run all classes of IMAC & Freestyle (optional). The Aresti routines are [Continue]

NIAA Aerobatics 2010 Round One at Ballymoney

The first round of the 2010 Area Aerobatics was held at Ballymoney on the 25th April. The day was fantastic, with a record 20 pilots and a clear step up in the quality of the flying. Read more about this great start to the local Aerobatics scene for 2010 below.  Sunday morning dawned early and [Continue]

IMAC NI 28th-30th May 2010

Following on from the hugely successful event last year we have secured the same venue as last year. A massive thanks to Tyrella Model Flying Club for their help in securing the venue again. The Club has also carried out a lot of work at the site over the last 6 months or so, it’s [Continue]

• NIAA Aerobatics 2009 Round Two at Newbuildings
• IMAC NI Tyrella 23rd & 24th May 2009
• NIAA Aerobatics Round One 2009 at Ballymoney
• NIAA/IMAC Aerobatics Training Day 1 & 2 21/03/09 & 04/04/09
• NIAA Area Aerobatics Championships 2009
• IMAC Northern Ireland 23rd & 24th May 2009
• Ballymoney Aerobatics Competition

IMAC

IMAC UK Scotland 5th & 6th May 2012

The IMAC 2012 season opener took place in Scotland on the 1st bank holiday weekend in May.  The weather leading up to the competition was wet & windy, in fact some areas had hail stones, only in the UK can you expect that in May!!  Fortunately we encountered no such problems at Castle [Continue]

BMFA IMAC Nationals 2011

The 2011 BMFA Nationals took place as usual on the August Bank Holiday weekend at RAF Barkston Heath. Three long days of competition for all RC & CL disciplines within the BMFA. 2011 has been a blur, lots of things have happened outside of the hobby for us and since Easter it has been a [Continue]

IMAC UK Rhyl 2011

The IMAC competition in Rhyl, North Wales is midway through the UK season and has been a popular venue for us in the past few years. We set out on the Birkenhead ferry on Friday night in less than favourable weather, wet and very windy. On Arrival to the mainland on Saturday morning the weather [Continue]

Hangar 9 3.1m Sukhoi SU26-MM

This is Hangar 9's largest model to date at 3.1m it is an unlimited IMAC/3D model which is based on Mike McConville's hugely successful 85cc design. [Continue]

IMAC Scotland May 2011

The last weekend in May saw the first IMAC event to take place in Scotland, the weather wasn’t perfect, but the craic was great and some good flying took place The competition was held in Castle Kennedy near Stranraer. Steven Currie was the competition director and along the SAA they secured [Continue]

IMAC UK Clitheroe August 2010

The first weekend in August once again signals IMAC Clitheroe. This open class IMAC comps matches all pilots from all classes together in a single competition. For this comp we fly a different routine, it’s a schedule that is pitched between basic & unlimited meaning everyone can have a [Continue]

Demo

Caledon Display April 2012

David Nolan & I did a display at the Caledon Vintage Tractor fair. It’s a tight site and electric planes only, David was able to fly his Fury 55 heli keeping it in close. Here are some pictures we took, unfortyunatly we were cut short by an unexpected football match needing to be played, [Continue]

UMAC Fly-in Easter Monday 2012

The UMAC Dennis O’Hara Memorial Fly-in took place for the 7th year at Nutts Corner. The Ulster Model Aircraft Club had a good turn out and plenty of flying took place throughout the day. There was a strong wind down the strip however it was steady and we missed the worst of the showers. I [Continue]

Horizon Hobby UK ‘Come and Fly’

UPDATED, PRESENTATION PICTURE 21/11/11! The Horizon Hobby Come and Fly evening took place on Friday 4th November at Lisburn Leisureplex, it was hugely successful and I am pleased to announce that we raised just short of £1500 for Epilepsy Action NI. Thanks to everyone who came along and [Continue]

Horizon Hobby UK ‘Come and Fly’

I am pleased to announce a free evening of indoor flying courtesy of Horizon Hobby UK in Lisburn Leisureplex on Friday 4th November 7pm to 10pm. This is your chance to sample and fly Horizon Hobby UK’s favourite and current indoor products such as the Parkzone Night Vapor, Eflite Beast, Blade [Continue]

Killicomaine Indoor

On a very wet Monday night I travelled to Killicomaine Junior School for a spot of indoor flying, perfect weather for being indoors!! The Killicomaine Indoor RC Group asked me to come over to their indoor session to show some product and a nights flying. I brought a selection of models and flew [Continue]

Dungannon 2011

The annual Dungannon flyin now in it’s 24year I believe, the forecast wasn’t the best but it turned out to be a good day, both weather and flying wise.   Thanks to George, Richard & Glen for a great day as usual up at Moygashel. A stiff crosswind but plenty of pilot’s [Continue]

NDMAC Flyin August 2011

  The members at North Down Model Aircraft Club invited my dad and I to their annual flyin. They have a great site close to Kirkistown Racetrack, which I believe is a former RAF base.  We had a great Saturday at NDMAC, flying, catching up with old friends and great hospitallity from the members [Continue]

Delamont Display August 2011

It’s that time of year again for the Delamont display. This year we dodged the showers and had 2 dry displays.   Some of the crowd who turned up on the day, there was a good array of models, large & small. Electric models dominated (a sign of the times), here I’m readying my Eflite [Continue]

Drumlough Display July 2011

A few weeks ago, we did a display at Drumlough. It was a small field so liimited to small electrics.  Here are a few pics, you can follow this link for Iain’s report on the BAC site, thanks Iain. Group Shot, a good fleet of Strykers, more on that in Iain’s report. The new Super [Continue]

Wings and Wheels 2011

The Wings & Wheels Show was held at North Weald at the End of June. We had another brilliant Show and got sunburnt again!! A break from IMAC competition took us to Harlow in Essex for W&W’s for a weekend of flying with Horizon Hobby UK. As with last year, this was a superb event. [Continue]

Nutts Corner Easter Monday 2011

One of my favourite events is the Easter Monday Denis O’Hara Memorial flyin at Nutts Corner. A good day was had again this year. Thanks to everyone at UMAC for the hospitality up at Nutts Corner for the Denis O’Hara Memorial Flyin. Well done to Colin Deery on receiving the Memorial Cup [Continue]