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As a key ingredient in "The New IAC" initiative announced by IAC President Mike Heuer in the January issue of Sport Aerobatics, a new family of IAC logos has been rolled out this month in the culmination of a months-long project to re-brand IAC and to update our look and image.  That project was undertaken by IAC's marketing chair, Margo Chase of California, who is a marketing and branding professional, a long-time IAC member, and active pilot and competitor. 

All of IAC's logos and monograms have been re-designed yet retain the shield that has been IAC's hallmark since 1970.  The…

The 2015 Known sequence for the Primary category is now officially approved and published -- see the attachment below.

During its meeting on the 12th and 13th of November in Oshkosh, the IAC Board of Directors reviewed all of the proposals for Known sequences for the 2015 contest year.  These were submitted to the Board for consideration by IAC Rules Chairman Brian Howard.  Every proposal was reviewed by the IAC Known Sequence Sub-Committee, made up of experienced pilots with different backgrounds and competition histories. 

The Board did vote on making minor changes to the…

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.

The Rules Committee finalized its work on the proposed Known sequences for 2015 and sent its report to the IAC President on Wednesday, October 15th.  Their report is attached here for download in PDF format.

Members are invited to send their comments on these proposals to the IAC Directors who represent their region.  A list of those Directors and their contact information is also attached below as a PDF for download. 

The Board of Directors will meet in Oshkosh, Wisconsin on 12-13 November and vote on the Knowns. Those sequences will go into effect for the 2015 contest…

Congratulations to the following individuals who have earned Achievement Awards while flying in a non-contest environment (Smooth Achievement) or at at contest (Stars Achievement) during the third quarter of 2014;