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Have a look at the fantastic CL 2008 World Championships - Speed, Aerobatics, Team Race & Combat. Exciting stuff! Copy the following link into you web browser.
www.airsports.tv/index.asp?bcpid=4552242001&bclid=1325126603&bctid=5261465001
The Royal Aero Club Trust has opened its bursary scheme for young people for the 2009 season. Each bursary, of up to £500, is available to anyone between 16 and 21 years of age wishing to progress their interest in either air sports or aviation. The closing date for applications is 31 March 2009.
The Royal Aero Club Trust has been running the programme for nine years and a wide range of bursaries has been awarded. Activities available in the programme include gliding, ballooning, paragliding, hang gliding, parachuting, flying microlights, motor gliders, fixed wing or light aeroplanes and helicopters, building and flying model aircraft. Bursaries are also available for Personal Computer or Flight Simulator pilots wishing to have their first experience of an air sport.
Applicants must be UK citizens, resident in the UK, and training and flying can only be conducted at Clubs, Associations or training establishments in the UK. Applications, which must arrive at the Trust by 31 March 2009, are to be submitted through a Sponsoring Organisation, Club or Association.
Full details, rules and an application form are available on the Royal Aero Club Trust web site, www.royalaeroclubtrust.org
2009 Membership Fees are as follows:
Seniors £28
Juniors £15
Family Partners £18
Family Juniors £11
If you require a GBR (UK) FAI Licence then new procedures mean that you will need to complete an application form. Download this zipped folder that contains two .pdf documents : an application form and an information sheet. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to open the documents. fai-licence-application.zip
For Grantham club member Phil Ball the last of three trials to select the British team at the 2009 World Free Flight Championships in Croatia was very special. Flying at Sculthorpe on October 12th, Phil gained a place on the F1A glider team and as a result is one of only three Britons ever to represent this country in all three outdoor free-flight classes, F1A glider, F1B Wakefield rubber and F1C engine-assisted glider. The other two are the late Jack North of Croydon & DMAC and Ray Monks of Birmingham MAC, with Ray even adding F1D indoor to his list of team places.
Phil recently retired from Rolls Royce at Derby, where he was a development engineer working on advanced turbine blades and has been national free-flight champion several times. He trains at Barkston Heath and competes at contests all over the country. His previous team places have taken him to Germany, Italy, USA, Hungary, Romania and Portugal; he was part of the gold medal-winning F1C team at the last two. Phil also managed the British team at the World Junior Championships in Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia and has served on the free-flight technical committee for several years.
