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,…

A long overdue awards presentation was made by IAC President Mike Heuer at the US Nationals on Wednesday, September 24th. This was the presentation of the CIVA Gold Medal to John Morrissey.

John was the winner of the Known program at the 1997 World Advanced Aerobatic Championships in Lawrence, Kansas and was one of the first Americans to participate in WAAC in 1995 (then called the AWAC). At that time, CIVA did not award medals in the Known (then called the “Q”) as the results did not count. Later, however, those rules were changed so the Known would count if only two flights were…

Though the US National Aerobatic Championships remains in progress, the flights used to determine the 2014-2015 US National Aerobatic Champion have been completed.  Unlimited pilots have flown the Known, Free, and 1st Free Unknown flight and it is those three flights which determine the winner. The 2nd Free Unknown flight is used for determining team selection. 

Results for those champion-determining programs are now official and the winner is Rob Holland.  One of the country's most well-known airshow pilots, Rob also has proven his abilities in competition settings…