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"The Leo" - National Point Series Championship
By Bob Freeman, IAC 8532

      IAC Collegiate Program Chair, Nina Stewart, offers her congratulations to the winners of the 2023 Collegiate Championships. The collegiate eagle trophies will be presented to the recipients at the IAC Member Gathering in Oshkosh, Wisconsin at AirVenture on Friday, July 26, 2024. The results of the championships have been verified and are as follows:

Team Championships:
1st - University of North Dakota, Scoring 8438.16 out of 9690.00 points / 87. %

The 2024 edition of the IAC Contest Rules is now available to members at: 
www.iac.org/download-contest-rules  

Most of the changes are a direct result of your input.  Forty-six proposals were submitted by members. After these were published last fall, other members provided valuable comments.  The Rules Committee discussed each proposal and associated comments in depth, then provided recommendations to the IAC Board of…

The final scores have been tabulated for the 2023 Regional Series Competition. Seventy-seven (77) pilots successfully competed at three or more contests needed to qualify in their respective region.

The IAC awards first, second, and third-place titles in all categories in each of six regions. Each pilot flies a three-contest minimum with the Nationals as a wild-card. The average of the three best contests flown in a region are used to arrive at a total percentage.

MidAmerica: 
Primary: 1st Justin Miller 
Sportsman: 1st Tim Taylor, 2nd Kelly Fawcett…

Stephen Kurtzahn, IAC Executive Director, will be leaving the EAA/IAC team on January 31, 2024. 

Stephen has answered the call to return as pastor within the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. Previous to coming into the IAC job, he had served in pastoral ministry for 36 years and is responding to a tremendous need for pastors in his denomination.

In a letter to the IAC Board of Directors, Stephen expressed his appreciation to them in hiring him in October of 2019. “This has been a great place to work, with many wonderful and professional people. It has indeed…

by Keith Doyne, IAC Safety Chairman

The FAA received reports of multiple types of cracks after low flight hours on WACO Classic Aircraft Corporation Model 2T–1A–2 airplanes.  In response to this, the FAA reviewed WACO Great Lakes 2T–1A–2 Service Bulletin GL–SB0002, Revision NR, dated July 6, 2023 (WACO SB 2T–1A–2, Revision NR). 

This service information specifies procedures for inspecting the leading edge former ribs and trailing edge former ribs in the upper wing center section for cracking, replacing any cracked ribs, and modifying the upper wing center section assembly by…

Happy New Year!
Each month you can enjoy a variety of aerobatic planes when you download IAC desktop wallpaper.

For January 2024 we feature the Christen Eagle II. Download either 1068x768 or 2560x1600 sizes here: https://www.iac.org/in-the-loop-desktop-wallpaper 

From the Chicago Tribune

Don enlisted in the Army as a helicopter mechanic in 1961 after his graduation from Blue Island…

Many people have made significant contributions to the sport and art of aerobatic…

Individual videos for Primary through Intermediate power 
and glider as well as the Advanced and Unlimited power categories have been uploaded. 

Each pilot's flights area available for viewing here: 
https://www.iac.org/nationals-videos

The US National Aerobatic Championships took place in 
Salina, Kansas, September 24-29, 2023. 

Photos from the championships can be viewed here: 
https://www.flickr.com/Nationals_photos