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Congratulations to the individuals on the following page who have applied for and received Achievement Awards from flying in a non-contest environment (Smooth Achievement) or at at contest (Stars Achievement) in the Fourth quarter of 2014.

All award recipients since 1970 can be found on the Achievement Award webpages:
Power: https://www.iac.org/legacy/power-achievement-awards-home
Glider: https://www.iac.org/legacy/glider-achievement-…

Wes Liu of Brookline, New Hampshire has been appointed the new Chair of the IAC's Judges Program.  The program serves to certify and renew IAC Regional and National Judges and to organize Judges Schools across the country.  Since all contests require competent judges, the program has been one of IAC's most important initiatives since 1970.  The Judges Chair also serves on the IAC Rules Committee.

Wes has been a member of IAC since 1984 (IAC #10467), served as a chapter president, been a National Judge since 2007, and has competed since 2002 in his Pitts S-2A and currently flies…

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.