On hand at the US National Aerobatic Championships this year was one of aviation's best photographers -- Evan Peers of Air Space Media from San Carlos, California.  Evan had made arrangements with IAC to attend the event for the first time and was busy throughout the week with photographing the event and also staging the group photo of the new US Unlimited Aerobatic Team.

Please go to this link for an enjoyable few minutes of some of the best photography of an aerobatic competition ever taken.  It really captures the color, the excitement, the aircraft, and the people very well. …

The deadline for the submission of rules proposals and Known sequences for the 2015 contest year has now passed (September 1st) and a document that includes these proposals is now available in PDF. 

The rules proposals have been sent to the members of the IAC Rules Committee (RC) which have until mid-October to make their recommendations to Rules Chairman Brian Howard. Once the RC votes on these proposals, the package of recommended rules changes will go to the IAC Board of Directors for its meeting in Oshkosh on 12-13 November. 

Similarly, the Known proposals have been sent…

The last day of the 2014 US National Aerobatic Championships was today -- and it was capped off with the beautiful and always anticipated Four Minute Freestyle flights by six Unlimited pilots.  The contest finished before noon. 

National Champions are as follows:

Sportsman Power: Paul Thomson (Decathlon)

Sportsman Glider: Steel Shoaf (DG-1001)

Intermediate Power: Curt Richmond (Pitts S-2B)

Intermediate Glider: Joshua Wilson (DG-1001)

Advanced Power: Foster Bachschmidt…

Please go to http://t.co/huBNW4z8YD/s/zx_r for Episode 2 of the US Nationals video coverage. 

The final results for the Unlimited 2nd Free Unknown became official at 2:15 pm on Thursday, September 25th.  IAC is pleased to announce the selection of the US Unlimited Aerobatic Team that will compete in Chateroux, France in August 2015. 

Full results for the team selection can be found at https://nationals.iac.org/files/results/multi_R012s08s17s26s28.htm.

The new Team pilots assembled for a team photo session this morning and appear below.  Left to right, they are Tim Just, Rob Holland,…