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U.S. National Aerobatic Championships - September 20-26, 2015
Over 90 Glider and Power pilots are registered to compete at this year's Nationals.  18 Advanced pilots have declared their intentions to fly for US Advanced Team selection. 
Follow the action here  https://www.iac.org/us-nationals-news-updates and;
on Facebook: https://www.iac.org/us-…

Due to the tremendous success of the Pitts 70th Anniversary celebrations at EAA AirVenture this year and the popularity of the beautiful t-shirts (for men and women) and the caps we were offering, the items quickly sold out and were gone by the second day of AirVenture. They are now in stock again and will be on sale at the US National Aerobatic Championships in Sherman/Denison, Texas which begins on Sunday, September 20th.  Be sure to pick up your Pitts items at our sales area there.  You can also mail order at www.eaa.org/en/eaa-…

IAC has just released the document compiling all of the rules proposals made by our members to the Rules Committee for 2016. The committee is in the process of reviewing and commenting on all 18 of the proposals as of this writing.  Click here to view the document.

Once the Rules Committee completes its discussion and voting, the final recommendations of the committee will be published in a separate document which will go to the Board of Directors for consideration at its meeting in Oshkosh…

Most of the new line of IAC merchandise we call the "Unlimited Collection" is now on line at the EAA Store -  www.eaa.org/en/eaa-shop/iac_merchandise -- and just added are the very popular and eye-catching Pitts 70th Anniversary t-shirts which sold out in two days at AirVenture this year.  Be sure to visit the EAA Store and order today!

United States National Aerobatic Champion and US Team pilot Rob Holland won the Gold today in the "Final Freestyle" at the World Championships -- the Four Minute Free as it is known in the USA.  Fourteen pilots flew in this final programme of the 28th WAC this morning prior to the huge airshow that was staged at the Chateauroux, France airfield which has served as home for the WAC over the past couple of weeks.

This was Holland's third consecutive victory in this program at which he really excels and scored almost 300 points ahead of the second place pilot, Martin Sonka of the Czech…

The 28th FAI World Aerobatic Championships has concluded in Chateauroux, France with the Final Freestyles (Four Minute program) flown today followed by an airshow. 

Alexandre Orlowski of France is the new Overall World Aerobatic Champion, taking home the prestigious Aresti Cup.  Alexandre's rise in aerobatics has been meteoric.  A French Air Force pilot flying with the EVAA (France's military pilot group flying in FAI Aerobatic Championships), he is qualified in the Mirage 2000 and Alpha Jet. In 2013, he flew in Advanced category and came in 2nd overall in the European Advanced…

We have just received a file with all of the 7 Free Unknown sequences that will be flown by the pilots in Programme 3 at the World Aerobatic Championships now in progress in Chateauroux, France.  The US Team pilots will fly sequence "J".  Altogether, 14 sequences were submitted by the teams but in the end, only 7 are being used by the pilots.  Flying was called off today due to high wind but it appears the contest will resume tomorrow.  The Free Programme (Programme 2) is not yet complete.  Results can be found at https://www…

Most of IAC's new "Unlimited Collection" of merchandise, which we debuted at AirVenture, can now be found on the EAA Store. Go to the link for photos, info, and ordering. We ran out of some items at AirVenture and those are on order and will be in stock in a few weeks -- including our incredibly popular Pitts Anniversary t-shirts and caps. We will announce availability here.

Looking to follow what going on at the World Aerobatic Championships?  You can do that here: https://www.facebook.com/EAAIAC or https://twitter.com/iachq. 

Team members and Team official photographer Evan Peers of AirSpace Media are also posting at the Team's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/USUnlimitedAerobaticTeam

IAC webpage: https://www.iac.org/…

After each IAC election, the President reviews who has joined the IAC Board and who should be assigned what region.  These Directors have been assigned the following Regions:

• Mike Rinker (Southeast)*
• Bruce Ballew (Mid America)
• Tim Just (Southwest)*
• Rob Holland (Northeast)
• Doug Lovell (South Central)
• Debby Rihn-Harvey (International)
• Michael Steveson (Northwest)*

The Directors with asterisks (*) represent changes to the representative for that IAC Region. 

A list along with a map of the regions and…