Gary DeBaun of Lakeville, Minnesota has been appointed by the IAC Executive Committee to be the Contest Director for the 2015 US National Aerobatic Championships.  The Championships are to be held in September 2015.  Gary is a veteran IAC member of 36 years, holding member #4145, and has served as the Starter and Tech Monitor at the Nationals since 2010. 

In addition to his Nationals experience, he served at the 27th FAI World Aerobatic Championships as Flight Director and as a Contest Director at many IAC Chapter 78 regional contests in the 1990's.  The owner of a Pitts S-1, Gary…

The power and glider Known sequences for 2015 have now been finalized.  The sequences are available at https://www.iac.org/sequences, or by clicking on one of the attachments below.  All categories are included except Primary.

The Primary sequence to be utilized in 2015 is still under review by the Rules Committee (and its Known Sequence Sub-Committee) and will be announced separately.

Nationals data is now integrated into the IAC contest database. (See Integrating Nationals for the ugly details. This was a big job this year.)

The primary impact for now is an update to the Regional Series Results. We'll soon complete computations for the L. Paul Soucy and Collegiate Series, that also depend on results from the Nationals.

Read details of Nationals impact on the 2014 IAC Regional…

IAC is pleased to announce that we have expanded our archive of aerobatic sequences to include Unknown and Free programs as well as the Knowns. Visit: https://www.iac.org/sequences (member login required). Or you can find it under the Pubs/Archives menu item.

If you would like to contribute Freestyles -- your own or paperwork saved from contests -- please email them to webmaster@iac.org and I'll post them. PDFs are preferred, but GIFs and…

We've added some photo galleries to the IAC web page: eight years of the U.S. Nationals including 2014, WAC 2013, and some miscellaneous pictures.

These are all publicly viewable, no login required. https://www.iac.org/galleries

If you have any aerobatic pictures you'd like to share with the world, you can email them to webmaster@iac.org or we can arrange for transfer via Dropbox or a similar file sharing service.