Each year, the membership of the IAC nominates outstanding volunteers to be recognized for their contribution to the sport of aerobatics. This is an excellent opportunity to give recognition to an outstanding IAC member who spends their valuable time volunteering for the benefit of many.  Let's recognize our unsung heroes for 2016!

Click here to make an on-line nomination. You can nominate your fellow IAC'ers for one of the five non-flying awards listed;

Letter to the Editor:

If you’re not a member, you’re missing a lot!

Reggie, thanks for all the time and attention you put into Sport Aerobatics.

I’d like to add my feedback to the, hopefully legion, responses you’re getting regarding some recent how-to-fly articles.

John Morrissey’s “The Five Sequential Steps to Competition Aerobatics” (January 2014) has been pinned within view of my office chair since before I had even flown my airplane. What a wonderful blueprint! I’m using it to plan this project.

Things are falling into place quite nicely for the 2015 version of the U.S. National Aerobatic Championships, which take place September 20-25 at North Texas Regional Airport/Perrin Field in Sherman/Denison, Texas. Here is a list of the things that have been accomplished over the last couple months.

(Editor’s Note: This article is the first of a two-part series originally appearing in the May 1973 issue of EAA Sport Aviation.)

Late in March, I had the opportunity to attend an EAA Chapter Council Meeting at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. At the evening banquet, I showed the film, We Came To Win, which is a documentary on the United States victory at the 7th World Aerobatic Championships in Salon de Provence, France.

 
2015 US Unlimited Team

After a Year Filled with Training Camps the Team is prepared to head to France

Mark it on your calendars—September 19 – 26, 2015. Those are the dates of the IAC’s premier event, The U.S. National Aerobatic Championships, held at the North Texas Regional Airport (KGYI).

This year the Advanced category takes center stage with as many as 20 pilots fighting for a coveted spot on the U.S. Team, which will compete at the WAAC in Radom, Poland next year.

Right up Front: if you own a Pitts of any variety, homebuilt or otherwise, or if you just love the breed, Air Venture 2015 is the place to be, July 20-26^th. It’s going to be a monster gathering of the bi-wing g-pullers and you don’t want friends to come home saying “Man, you should have been there!”

Yes, it’s really nice to have some good news to share! Our good news is that the International Aerobatic Club’s total membership is once again enjoying steady growth! Here’s hoping that we all go out of our way to offer a big welcome to these new members and to help guide them into the many IAC chapter activities and special events planned for 2015! It’s going to be a great year!

This year’s Sportsman Known sequence has decent flow and energy, without too many of the elements that would punish low-horsepower/high-drag aerobats. So let’s break this sequence down, with the newer aerobatic pilot in mind, and see what we find.

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.

The Nationals had an impact on Regional Series results in several places: