2025 Fun Fly Buckminster Dates!!!
Put a note in your diaries and hopefully you can join in the FUN next year at our wonderful National Centre…
Fun Fly Festival 3rd – 4th May 2025
Fun Fly Nationals 16th – 17th August 2025
More Area Fun Fly Dates to follow…
News…
Photos from this year’s other events can now be found on the Gallery page.
These Include:
Wimbourne Fun Fly Weekend
(see write-up about this event HERE)
Bickley Fun Fly Day 2023 and 2024
SE Area Fun Fly Day at the Croydon Airport MFC
Please click HERE to see the whole gallery page in date order.
2024 Fun Fly Nationals
Another great weekend was had by all at our Fun Fly Nationals, held at the fabulous National Centre. The fine weather meant a really good competition over the two days, with a good number of entrants in the three different classes.
There was lots of truly impressive and skillful flying over the weekend, but highlights included Gavin Barden breaking the longstanding Longest Glide record, with an amazing glide time of 15 minutes, 48 seconds and a spot bonus from a 15 second climb! Also, Martin Bell came within 1 Touch and Go of equalling the current record with a very impressive 62 in two minutes for Class 1. Well done also to a junior, Joe Hampson for entering his first ever Fun Fly Comp and coming in the top half of class 2 and also beating a multiple Fun Fly champion in the process. Joe showed lots of skill, so well done Joe, hope to see you as a future Fun Fly Champion!
Congratulations to the winners though, Nick Lester in Class 3, Simon McNeill in Class 2 and Martin Bell in Class 1. Martin achieved a perfect score by winning every round in Class 1, which also gained him the Robin Jones Trophy for being this year’s overall National Fun Fly Champion. Well done to all the winners and well done and thank you to all the competitors and team for making the weekend such a success, very enjoyable and above all Fun!
For all the 2024 Nationals Results, please go to the Comp Results section at the top of the page….
More Photos – Here
2024 Fun Fly Festival
Gallery available below!
Some amazing photos provided by Mike Bell are also available for you to check out – HERE
2023 BFFA Fun Fly Nationals
Gallery and Results available below!
If you wish to see any of the results from the 2023 Funfly Nationals then please click – HERE
Some amazing photos provided by Mike Bell are also available for you to check out – HERE
The Fun Fly Festival at the end of May was a great success!
We had some new faces taking part as well as well as some of the country’s top Fun Fly pilots, so a good spread of competitors over class 1 and 2.
We managed to fly six rounds over the weekend consisting of Longest Glide, Touch & Go Pylon Race, Limbo, Touch & Go, Roop and Spins & Spot and we also had a good number of historic Fun Fly Models from the last 35 years.
Trophies were awarded on both days for the top flyers in both classes as well as a Pilot of the Day for each day too, courtesy of Gavin from Evolution Models, who also donated a kit for the free raffle over the weekend.
To top it off, the 20 year old Touch & Go record was finally broken in Class 1, with Peter Mumford clocking up an amazing 57 touch & Gos in the square in 2 minutes!! – LINK
For more photos, see the BFFA Fun Fly Group facebook page for what was a thoroughly enjoyable Fun Fly weekend! – LINK
Fun Fly Nationals was held at Old Warden on the 18/19th September
A great weekend which was hosted at Old Warden. The venue could not have been more accommodating at this special place for Aircraft and Aeromodelling.
The new Champions are:
Class 1 – Peter Mumford
Class 2 – Simon McNeill
Further results are now uploaded onto the Results Page.
Peter Mumford also broke the record for the number of Limbo’s in 2 minutes taking the total to an amazing 53!
Please take a look at our Gallery Page here for more action shots from the weekend! Thanks to Mike Bell for the photos.
If you wish to see video of some of the impressive flying then take a look at our Facebook BFFA Group page linked here. BFFA Facebook Group
Lastly, keep an eye out for a detailed write-up about the event by Mike Bell appearing in a future edition of the BMFA News.
The British Fun Fly Association
As the British Fun Fly Association we believe that Fun Fly is the best and most affordable way to get into competition flying. It is also highly entertaining, exciting to take part in or to watch and above all a whole load of FUN!
Fun Fly evolved all over the country in the 1960’s and first became an event at the BMFA Power National Championships in 1985. It also forms the basis of many of the country’s club’s competitions using ‘normal’ club sport models. Obviously at National level, the models become a lot more specialised, but basically, it’s designed so that anyone can have a go and enter into competition flying with minimal expense.
The competitions themselves vary from old favourites like Touch & Go, Limbo and Climb & Glide to the newer tasks such as Balloon Bursting, Water Carrying, Spins & Spot and much more.
This large range of competitions is designed to be appealing to everyone, whatever their skill at Fun Fly and brings a whole different dimension to club flying, bringing clubs together with everyone looking forward to a Fun Fly day!
They also serve to improve pilot skill, confidence and give flyers a sense of purpose together with a healthy competitive spirit, both at club and National level.
Many individuals tend to be put off entering any sort of competition as they think it is far too serious and intense for them. With Fun Fly that doesn’t have to be the case and by entering a club level, or even a National Fun Fly competition everyone can enjoy a good competitive event in a very informal, relaxed and fun atmosphere.
The British Fun Fly Association helps clubs and individuals organise competitions as well as inter club, area and National competitions and fly-ins. At most of our Fun Fly days we run two classes – one for the average club flyer starting out in competition and the other for the expert Fun Flyers, which at thetop level, as I’ve said before is very skilful and incredibly exciting to watch.
We have pilots who also fly other disciplines at top level, but they also keep coming back to the Fun Fly as there is nothing quite like the adrenaline, excitement and intensity of two minutes going under the Limbo!
Myself and the rest of the Team at the BFFA are passionate about Fun Fly, mainly due to the enjoyment and satisfaction that it has given to us over the years and we just want to give as many individuals and clubs the opportunity to take part and enjoy it too. We want to show that competition flying can be very rewarding, exciting and above all FUN.
Please contact us and we’ll be happy to answer any questions you have about the wonderful world of Fun Fly.
For more information on how you can get involved in this wonderful world of Fun Fly please take a look at my longer guide to Fun Fly, which you can download HERE.
James Gordon, BFFA Chairman