BMFC Field Closed 24/25th April.
Apologies for the inconvenience but next Wed/Thurs (24/25th) the field will be closed for rolling. The Thursday forecast isn’t looking great at this point anyway, so hopefully not too much of a loss. Regards BMFC Committee
Club Night Cancellation – 9th April 2024
With wind gusts forecast for 30mph and conflicting forecasts for rain, we’ve taken the difficult decision to cancel the club night for this coming Tuesday 9th April. Apologies for any inconvenience, Many thanks BMFC Committee
Terry Adams – F1D World Champs 2024 in summary
Back in the UK now and a good nights sleep behind me, the whole trip back went well with no delays, I even treated myself to a taxi to make the final leg from Heathrow to Horley, unfortunately along the way I have managed to pick up a cold at some point so first day […]
Terry Adams – F1D World Champs Tuesday
So here we are at the last day of the World Champs, its been a long week with seven of them down the mine, its been around 11C down there so not cold but if you are not moving you can start to feel the chill. Nothing to lose today so I was gifted some […]
F1D World Champs Day 7
Today is the second of the World Championships and our 6th day in the mine, rounds 3 and 4 have been flown with some interesting results, from a personal perspective I needed to do a lot to improve on yesterdays dismal performance and think I came away successful. Air conditions in the mine were near […]
Terry Adams – F1D World Champs Day Sunday
Arrived at the mines at 07:45 straight into practice until 09:00, at 09:00 round one starts, each competitor flys one flight per round, conditions early were very good with negligible drift, early in the round Ivan Treger (Slovakia) set a 27:37 flight, the UK team started off with Hans who got a 22:22 flight in […]
Terry Adams – F1D World Champs day 4 official practice
Early start, breakfast at 06:30, buses to the mine arrive at 07:30 Today is a day of free practice allowing competitors to finalise model set up for main and reserve models, not a great deal happening except get flights in, check and confirm trim, speculate on the drift for the competition days and get around […]
Terry Adams – F1D World Champs Day 3 Otto Hints Trophy
Friday and things are hotting up (as far as they can in a cold Salt mine), UK team used the day mostly for setting up and practice, strangely Tony’s No 1 model sustained damage overnight and had a broken tailplane in the morning setting him back by several hours. The first full motor flights were […]
Terry Adams – F1D World champs update 21/03
Breakfast at 06:30 buses at 7:30 for an early start to a long day Today is day one of the Otto Hints trophy, this event is open to all European F1D flyers and held in accordance with the current rules, there was a large number of people present, flyers, assistants, time keepers plus others, this […]
Bickley member Terry Adams goes F1d in a Romanian salt mine!
One of our members, Terry Adams, is competing in the F1d world championships in a salt mine in Romania! Terry has kindly agreed to send us photos and updates when he can. If you don’t know what F1d is, or what a Romanian salt mine looks like (strangely beautiful), hopefully the following photos will help. […]