UKF5B F5B as it happens

The 2017 League will be held on the following dates. There will be 7 events with no rain date. The league placings will be calculated as follows – 5 from 7 events / 4 from 6 / 3 from 5 or less events. European “Eurotour” events are shown for completeness, ...

The Last Chance Saloon As a heavy band of rain passed from West to East over the UK F5B pilots made their way to the excellent Hawling Field. Hawling is close to Chipping Norton and sits on top of the Cotswold’s Plateau. Due to the fields elevation low cloud can ...

More details shortly – Article in the process of being completed. Results for the Eurotour are available – Eurotour-Bickley-2016-exportk Results for the UK Nationals and League 4 are available –  UK-Nats-League4-Bickley-2016-exportk.

Dick shows F5B makes you happy Edgecott the Bermuda Triangle of big lap scores or not. Last year the event at this location proved hard to get laps score close to our European cousins. Round 3 of the league also turned out to be lucky with the weather. Having endured ...

After days of low cloud and drizzle sweeping in from the North Sea the forecast look promising for a practise day at Thame . Josef and Greg had planned to hop over to Holland and Belgium for two competitions over the weekend. However, an indifferent weather forecast meant a big ...

Some fields are fast for F5B and produce high lap scores. Other fields seem to have air made of treacle. So when we arrived at the new field to be used for Round 2 of the F5B League there was an expectation we could be in for a fast day.Chilly ...

All in all a great day was had. I couldn’t believe the luck we had with the weather. Beautifully sunny day and low wind conditions for Warboys. Numerous thermals but unfortunately they were not always on the course when it mattered (ie when I was flying!). The days before were ...

The details below apply to all the classes which are flying in the UK F5B / Intermediate / F3BE leagues. Hopefully all common sense and they are just there so everyone knows what happens if something goes wrong. Above all we are there to enjoy ourselves and fair play should ...

Sometimes a prop hub will seem to get stuck on the motor shaft – this is usually when you are in the greatest hurry to get the hub off for some reason, so a means of pulling it off quickly and simply without damage to model or motor is useful.Faced ...

F5B props are designed for very high speeds and so often have a very high pitch which will prevent them from folding flat to the fuselage. This creates more drag on the glide which we definitely don’t want.If a prop hub is made with the blades offset from the centre ...