Articles by Rob Stanley

*** Important Update *** The BMFA Handbook has received a number of updates, ready for the year ahead. These updates cover a large array of subjects, from Regulations and Article 16, to Insurance and Useful…

*** IMPORTANT UPDATE *** Yesterday, the CAA issued the British Model Flying Association/British Drone Flyers with its latest (eight) Article 16 Operational Authorisation for model aircraft and drone flying. There are no significant changes to…

The BMFA have published their 2026 fees as per below –  

Please note that in the new BMFA News magazine, they have the date wrong for Horam Swapmeet – they have it down as 15th November – The correct date is  16th November  as per this…

Report by David Allen The Eynsford Model Helicopter Club (EMHC) welcomed members and visitors on 7th September 2025 for its annual Scale Day, showcasing some of the fine scale helicopters. Despite an unfavourable weather forecast,…

Report by Stuart Willis  A wonderful Fun-fly competition at the Croydon Airport MFC Field today. Thanks to James Gordon and his team from the British Fun-fly Association https://funfly.bmfa.org/ for running the competitions. Emma produced her…

The SE Area held their Scale Fly-In on the 7th Sept, the event was kindly hosted by Epsom Radio Flying Club at their field. Following the SE Area Scale Comp in Aug, this was a…

    ** Please note that pictures of the models in this event are in the slide show on the Homepage **   The Hastings Model Aircraft Club kindly hosted this year’s BMFA South East…

The BMFA are asking all clubs for nominations to their ‘Club of the Year’ award. Please see the poster above for details or click here

On Sunday the 23rd February the SE BMFA and CADMAC – (Crawley & District Model Aircraft Club) held their annual indoor free-flight competition and fun-fly event at the Triangle Centre in Burgess Hill. This is…