SE BMFA Indoor Free-Flight Competition – Sunday 22nd February 2026
This year’s SE BMFA indoor competition was the 47th SE BMFA annual meeting and the 3rd meeting at the Triangle Centre. The event followed the established format of alternate slots for competitions and fun flying.
On the day we had 67 attendees – 26 fliers and 41 spectators.
There was also a raffle at 14:00 comprising of 10 prizes.
We can also announce that we managed to cover the cost of the hall thanks to the high number of attendees and the generosity of the people who bought raffle tickets.
The competitions were organized by Crawley and District Model Aircraft Club and consisted of some ‘fun-fly’ time for people to set up their models or to fly their own models without competing and competition time in the various classes as follows –
Catapult glider, (max span 12 inches),
Hand Launched Glider,
EZB,
Living Room Stick,
Gymminie Cricket,
Open Scale,
Peanut Scale
Legal Eagle
Plus mass launches for the Butterfly and Hangar Rat.
Each class was judged on various criteria depending on that class and the time in the air.
Winners for each class are as follows –
Open Scale – Nick Peppiatt
Peanut Scale – Stephen Haines
Legal Eagle – Terry Adams
Gymminie Cricket – David Goodwin
EZB – Robert Horton
Living Room Stick – Tom Goodwin
HLG – Tom Goodwin
CLG – Tom Goodwin
Butterfly – Nick Peppiatt
Hangar Rat – Tom Goodwin
Overall SE BMFA 2026 Indoor Champion – Tom Goodwin
Congratulations to all the winners pictured below –
Details of all the results can be found here
Our thanks go to the SE BMFA Committee, Crawley Model Aircraft Club and all the competitors and spectators.
Next Year’s competition will be on 21st February 2027 – same venue