Club Open Thermal 20 Oct 2019
The weather gods shone on us for a change, literally. The day started with light winds, from the north, picking up as the day went on and creating the inevitable low level turbulence. There was…
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2m Electric Plate 22 Sept 2019
Apologies for this being out of sync, but I was in hospital! Report by CD: The day started grey and overcast but dry with moderate winds. As I drove to Mallusk the rain began to…
100S Cup – Sun 13 Oct 2019
Report from CD Paul Freeman: The day started well but as I drove towards Mallusk some drops of rain fell, a harbinger of the day ahead. I laid out the winches as drizzle set in…
2m RES Event 14 Sept 2019
A new class for NIMSA and at the AGM the decision was taken to make this a one design class using the PuRES from Hoellein. The first event was to be a low key fly…
100S Boyce Trophy 8 Sept 2019
With a reasonable forecast and enough interest we ran the 100S Boyce Trophy (for models up to 100″ & rudder/elevator/spoiler only). 6 pilots turned out to compete with a variety of models from old school…
2019 Area E-Soaring 25/8/19
Yet another event rescheduled due to the weather. Six flyers turned out, Chairman Bill Scott was unavailable for health reasons, but Ronnie Armstrong flew his first event in a while (good to see him back)…
Area Open Thermal Championships 2019 – 4/8/19
Finally we managed to get a competition run in 2019!! For a variety of reasons, but mainly due to weather we’ve been unable to fly any competitions. Weather has been great during the week and…
Aerotow March 2019
NIMSA & the NIAA held an aerotow event at Causeway Airfield on 25 April 2019, hosted by The Buzzards MFC who fly there. Our tug pilots for the day were Andrew Wallace with a Wot4…
2019
A good start to 2019, with about 8 turning out for an impromptu soaring session on New Years Day. Keith was trying out his new (bargain!) winch, Tim had a new foam ASW28 of around…
2018 AGM
The 2018 was held in McConnells Bar, Doagh on Tues 4 Dec 2018. 10 Members attended and we had apologies from 4. The officers reports were read and included the usual comments on events lost…