Thanks to Paul Geders for pulling these items together. Racing rules can now be accessed from the Menu under Documents. Direct link provided: Revised Four Star 40 and Uproar Rules Additional resources are now available under the Interesting Reads – Interesting Things menu (midway down the Home Page). Direct linksContinue Reading
I had the opportunity to travel to Germany for business and planned a side excursion to London. My wife flew directly to England while I worked in Cologne and then we were going to meet up for five days of vacation. Well, things did not go as planned. Within 3Continue Reading
I needed a bad ass spinner for my Cassult Formula One Racer so the only place to go was of course, Tru-Turn. To my horror, after today, June 30th, 2022 there will no longer be custom order spinners available to us modelers who need them. I’ve been putting these highContinue Reading
The Dave’s (Brown and Harrington) and a few others (Tesson and Whitrock) were kind enough to pound a Sandpoint and install a well hand pump into the ground this past Saturday. They hit water at about 14 feet. They should be glad I wasn’t able to make it because IContinue Reading
Airshow Glory I was able to attend the St. Louis Airshow Saturday June 11th. I have a friend by the name of Bevin Shively who owns the Diamond D20 Katana in the photo in front of “Doc†B-29. Bevin and my brother Bob go all the way back to OzarkContinue Reading
How could this happen? It started with Dave Harrington and I going to the Stihl Championship Air Races last September and watching some of the Formula 1 racers. We were laughing about how we wouldn’t fit in one of the full scales so we might as well set them upContinue Reading
It started with a phone call: “Hey man, I’m in Cumming Georgia for work and I’m pulling an empty 20′ trailer. I’m in the Extreme Flight warehouse right now. You want anything?” That butthead Dustin Whitrock knew I was using the “Shipping Costs” as an excuse to not pull theContinue Reading
I acquired this slightly used and dinged Cessna after the passing of a St Charles Saints flyer. It came equipped with a full complement of servos and powered by an OS FS-91 Surpass pumped motor. Most of the LED lights do not work but that is for another day. IContinue Reading
Check out the highlights from the meeting below. Bring an airplane and show up early to the next meeting. Bring bugspray and a cold beverage as well!!!!Continue Reading
Courtesy of Steve Collins. Awesome video. Check it out!Continue Reading
Do yourself a favor and take a listen to this song. What’s not to love? Gaga, Mustangs, Music… Do yourself a favor and listen till 3:06 for that mustang sound! A little over a week before Top Gun opens on May 24th!Continue Reading
The new Laser has redundant Futaba 7003SB receivers so I wanted to create a platform to mount them on, a method of organizing the 4 antennae so that they were all in a different geometric plane so that no matter the orientation of the bird, I always have 2 viableContinue Reading
At our April Club Meeting, Ralph Grant mentioned Stephen Adams, li’l ole me, was taking a more active role with the Spirits website. I am no expert but currently building a new Home Page which will debut soon. This is YOUR website so it needs content from our members: picturesContinue Reading
Club swap meets are best when you bring home a P-47 and park it on an awesome quilt; er, ramp. Perhaps, Rich has a creative hobby most are not aware of. 😉 We look forward to seeing it fly very soon.Continue Reading
Lets do a roadtrip! I’ve been a life member of the AMA for eons and I have NEVER been to the national flying site or the AMA museum. Lets get a crew together and go check it out!!!! If you want to pre-register before June 1st, you get a freeContinue Reading
Make sure you check out the video links in the second page of the minutes for some indoor flying action like the video below.Continue Reading
Hope everyone is staying inside, safe and warm today. In this installment I intend to answer a few questions raised at club meetings and point out remaining details. There is some polishing to do in the spring but the hard part is done and I am looking forward to usingContinue Reading