Two years ago, I was doing a normal fly –by with my KATANA when suddenly the tail virtually exploded! It tore the vertical stab completely off and also partially destroyed the elevator: Fortunately, there was enough elevator control surface left that allowed me to have a fairly safe landing soContinue Reading
Can’t let a little thing like darkness keep you from flying the Extreme Flight Extra 300. The lighting system is the Aurora “Aries” system designed for Side Force Generators (SFG’s). I power it with a 800mah 3S lipo and get about 20 minutes of lighting time. These LED’s are soContinue Reading
Wyatt Grant flies his Extreme Flight Turbo Bushmaster: Spirits member Wyatt Grant (11 years old) enjoyed some wonderful weather flying his 84″ Bushmaster at Gizzie Field on Saturday. He should graduate off the buddy cord in the next few outings. The Bushmaster is a great airplane to teach someone toContinue Reading
Gizzie Field is good for rocketry: Spirits own Robert “Babe” Raab took advantage of the great weather to celebrate 4th of July with his grand-kids. Model rocketry is a great inexpensive way to get the kids involved in building and flying their own rockets. Estes Model Rockets and several othersContinue Reading
Thank in advance for your understanding. Spirits field will be closed for runway crack repairs on either Tuesday, July 2nd. Â If you have flown at the field lately, you would have noticed our runway cracks are getting deeper and wider, thus becoming a hazard to many aircraft. During the repair,Continue Reading
The Ostmann’s Field is the Burmuda Triangle: Last week, Dave Brown retrieved two aircraft in the muddy Farmer’s Field, north of the runway. Â The first aircraft, a P-51 owned by David Lynch was recovered by Dave’s patented “Spoon” aircraft fishing lure. Â Easy, Peasy! The second, was a ducted fan jetContinue Reading
An event for the jet jockeys… We have decided to try something new for the guys in the club that love to fly jets! How it works: Its takes a little time to get multiple birds in the air, form up, and start a pylon race. When you only haveContinue Reading
Mark Your Calendars! Come out and fly the pylon course with us! We will be racing: Sig Four Star-40’s Electric Warbirds Just about everyone in this club has an electric warbird! Bring that hanger queen out and lets do some flying together! Its really not about winning! Its about flyingContinue Reading
This has got to be one of the wettest flying seasons on record. I think the flood of 1993 had more sunshine. Spirits of St. Louis Flying Club’s “Gizzie Field” has been pretty fortunate that we are in a location protected by levee’s and that our landlord “The Ostmann’s” investedContinue Reading
The VQ Warbirds Aichi D3A “Val” One of the things that is most humbling about this hobby is just how unforgiving it can be. Those of you who were at the monthly meeting in June saw the Aichi D3A Dive-Bomber that I had built from the VQ Warbirds ARF kit.Continue Reading
The events calendar is up to date. Just click on the “Events” Menu above and the latest events are on there. Don’t Forget about Mowing! I didn’t show our mowing calendar on the Events page. Although its a little tough to mow when its so wet, don’t forget that AlexContinue Reading
WordPress is in the house: As many of you are aware, we are re-vamping the website. We had a few challenges with the old one and the board decided that we needed to bring it into the 21st century for functionality, flexibility, ease of support, and security. Having a singleContinue Reading
The latest edition of the Flight Lines Newsletter has been published. Check it out here:Continue Reading