Author Archives: Holger Marsen

Some great local talent encouraged by Surrey Commet has written a great piece on LMFC… You can find the report here: https://www.surreycomet.co.uk/young-reporter/33457/

 Leatherhead Model Flying Club Awarded 2nd Place in BMFA Club of the Year 2025! Leatherhead Model Flying Club is proud to announce that we have been awarded Second Place in the BMFA Club of the Year Awards 2025, achieving an impressive score of 81% in the national competition. The award recognises clubs across the UK… Read More »

A great BBQ was held last weekend after the weather gods smiled upon us.. Catch up with some pictures at https://leatherheadmfc.bmfa.club/gallery/club-bbq-2025.

As part of Surrey Day on 11/5/2024 Radio Surrey came to visit LMFC late April to talk Planes and Drones.. Below are the links to recordings of our 2 contributions.. Well done Stew, Alex, Ian & Alan…  

Have a look at the information on Slope Soaring now on the website Flying Information. It certainly is off-road.. what out for the livestock!!!

Sorry for the delay folks but the beautiful pictures of the visit from Guildford Photographic Societhy are now finally on the website..

Not happy to rest on his laurels Jeremy then immediately joined the external examiner in certifing Mark for his FW B test.. which he passed.. Congratulations Mark!!!!!

Congratulations to Jeremy for passing this FW examiner test. Thank you to everybody who helped him in the process..    

We were sad to hear of the passing of another former member, Martin Desvaux, last week. Martin was Chairman of the club back in the 80s and spent many wonderfully happy years as a club member, building planes to fly, occasionally crash-landing them in the water as well as introducing his son Mark to the… Read More »

It is with sadness that we have heard of the passing of LMFC’s Stuart Tucker late in 2021. Stuart had been a long standing, prominent member of the club, flying as long ago as the 1970s when the club flew out of Effingham Common. He was part of the team moving the club to its… Read More »