The club has a stand at the Rotary Club of West Fife’s Community Exhibition in the Keavil House Hotel (Elgin Suite).
Today Sunday 12 March 14:00 – 16:00.
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As an adjunct to the exhibition we will be flying Control Line models in the George V park adjacent to the hotel.
The weather forecast is good, there is plenty of parking, so come along and enjoy the fun.
Sunday 5th March: Free Flight competition at the SAA site on the Pentland Hills. 10:00 onward.
Sunday 12th March:
Exhibition and flying display at Keavil House Hotel, Crossford. 14:00 – 16:00
SAA indoor flying at Bathgate Academy. 11:00 onward.
New events have been added to the calendar, see here.
At the recent DMAC meeting it was agreed that we would syncronise our meeting date with another regular booking. The meetings will now be on the last Thursday of the month thus the next will be 23rd February.
MADMAC and Balbedie events added to the list, read it here.
The first meeting of 2017 will be held at the Royal British Legion, New Row, Dunfermline, 19:00 for 19:30. Visitors welcome.
The list of forthcoming events has been updated, read it here.
A report on this years event and the history of this long fought championship can be read here.
On a fine dry but cold Thursday afternoon the Caledonia Shield returned to DMAC for another year. This inter club competition has run annually since 1951 with only 5 missed. The shield was presented to the SAA by the Caledonian Model Shop in Glasgow and was for the Free Flight(FF) and Control Line(CL) disciplines. Radio Control(RC) flying was very much in its infancy at that time so was not included. Somewhere along the line CL was dropped from the event and so it is now for FF flying only.
Over the years 14 clubs have been holders of the shield with Dunfermline winning it at its institution and 15 times since.
It is a championship event with the top flier in specific Glider, Rubber and Power competitions throughout the year counting towards a clubs total points score. Team Dunfermline consisted of Jim Arnott and David Hambley, yes those two again! Jim had a fantastic season and won the shield single handedly by dint of 1 first place and 2 seconds throughout the year. David could only manage a third and a fourth in the eligible events. Jim’s success in the other events of the year earned him individual champion with David trailing a distant fourth.
Previous winners are Dundee, Lanark, Glasgow, Kircaldy, Glasgow Hornets, Esk Valley, Clyde Valley Flyers, Hamilton, Cathkin, Paisley, Edinburgh, Dumfries. Sadly some of these clubs no longer exist and many more only fly RC models and so do not compete.
At the recent Annual General Meeting David Hambley and Dougie Groome were elected as Chairman and Secretary/Treasurer respectively. Both are long time members of the club with a wide range of aeromodelling experience. David is a Free Flight competitor having success throughout the UK. Recently he has taken up Control Line flying again relearning the skills he had at the beginning of his career. Dougie is a one time Free Flight flyer but now concentrates on Radio and Control Line.