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Seventyeight of the the nation's best aerobatic pilots came together during the week of September 22-28 at the U.S. National Aerobatic Championships held in Oshkosh, Wisconsin to compete for national championship titles. Offical pre-contest practice began on Friday, September 21 and the first day of competition flights began on Saturday, September 22.

The Opening Ceremony on Saturday morning was held in the Founder's Wing at the EAA Aviation Museum, a beautiful and memorable location. Contest Director, John Smutny…

See you in Oshkosh!

The Collegiate Program Competition standings show MSU leading UND by a slim margin. The national championships count in the overall…

The WAAC is complete. The USA has done very well. Individual medals were received in all Unknowns with Aaron McCarton taking Gold in Unknown 2, and Matt Dunfee taking Bronze in Unknown 1 and 3. Overall, two members finished in the top 10 and as a Team they received the Silver!

This has been a remarkable event. The Advanced team has had to overcome some of the most difficult situations that can happen and continued to preform as a team and succeed!  As Mark Fullerton told me in briefings several times, "His guys " were doing well and he felt that he there were some that could make it…

The rules proposals for 2019 which were submitted by IAC members have been posted on this website. Members were requested to respond to iacrulescomments@gmail.com with their views and opinions on these proposals. However, to make this more efficient, the Rules Committee has introduced a "survey style" method for members to comment. To begin the survey, please click on this link:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/…

When you visit https://www.iac.org/contests you'll see a blue 'Register' button next to every upcoming event. Just click it, fill out the required information, and submit the form.

To see who else has registered for an event, go to https://www.iac.org/contests, click on a contest name, then click the blue 'View Pre-Registrations' button. Contest organizers will see complete details, while everyone else will see basic info (name, category, etc.) Contest organizers will also have the option to…

News from Jean Taylor ...

A Celebration of Jim Taylor’s Life will be held on August 18th at Sky Harbor Airpark in Webster, MN. It will be at Chuck and Jody Doyle’s place.  It will start at 1:00 with Divine Swine catering lunch at 2:00. Please feel free to drive or fly in and Join in on the story telling, exaggerating and outright Fibs!!!

With deep sadness we share the news of the sudden passing of Mark Fullerton, IAC #434474, of Calhoun, Georgia.

Mark was a member of IAC 3 and frequent Contest Director for the Bear Creek Bash in Georgia. He started his aerobatic career with Michael Church of Sunrise Aviation. In recent years, he earned a place as a member of the 2014 and 2016 U.S. Advanced Aerobatic Teams. Again, he earned a spot on the 2018 U.S. Advanced Aerobatic Team as Alternate and subsequently was named Manager of the 2018 Team.

As a contest director, he was always very active in insuring that Primary…

The deadline for submission for IAC members to propose changes to the IAC Official Contest Rules for the 2019 contest season was July 1st. These have now been compiled in a 53 page document by IAC Rules Chair Brian Howard. Altogether, 46 proposals from the membership were received. The PDF will all of the proposals is available for download below.

Members must submit their comments to this address: iacrulescomments@gmail.com

Those comments must be received by October 1st, 2018. All comments will be compiled and submitted to the…