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Welcome to Felbridge Flyers Web site.

This is the Club's 31st year; established by a small group of enthusiasts led by Dave Ellis (who ran the local model shop which sadly closed some years ago) and a few others. Like most Clubs there is a small group who have been "playing with toy aeroplanes" for this whole period and many new faces over the years. It is good to see novices join, get trained, pass their "A" test, become competent flyers and join the Committee to help put something back.


Much has happened during those 31 years, the fantastic advance of electric power, the effective silencing of I/C engines and the introduction of interference free 2.4 Ghz radio to name a few. Many of the old "nitro heads" have converted to electric and with the new Li-Po batteries which provide good duration and light weight. We now have electric ducted fan models producing around 10 lbs of thrust approaching 3 Kw of power consumption. We have also found that the less expensive LiPo batteries are equal in performance to the expensive ones and often superior in capacity retention. Don’t let a high price tag fool you into thinking they are necessarily better.


We are a fixed wing group and the ethos of the Club is very much flying for fun and enjoying ourselves safely and creating minimum disturbance to our neighbours. Our sites and location dictate that certain types of models cannot safely be operated. For example gas turbine powered aircraft are not permitted nor are models exceeding 7kg in weight. If competition aerobatic flying, large models or fast and furious is where your interest lays then our Club facilities will not match your requirements.
Felbridge Flyers Radio Model Flying Club operates near East Grinstead in West Sussex, UK. Our members come from a large radius: Crawley in the west, Croydon to the north, Edenbridge to the east and Brighton to the south.
The Club promotes quiet and safe operation. We learnt many years ago that to maintain the use of flying fields we must fly quietly and minimize annoyance. Quiet operation has had little effect on the performance of sport and scale models. Many members are surprised on how much better the models performed with the slower revving and more efficient props: it is thrust you need, not rpm.


We operate from mown grass runways at two sites on the Surrey / Sussex border and operate i/c and electric powered sport and scale models.


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