September 28, 2014

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…

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September 26, 2014

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…

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September 26, 2014

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

September 25, 2014

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,…

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September 25, 2014

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…

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