Look out for the Ides of March! Monthly Meeting Minutes for March 11, 2020 By Ralph Doyle, Secretary President Ralph Grant: Meeting called to order at 7:02pm by Ralph Grant. Attendance: 15 members attended the meeting that included a renewing member, John Bruno. Welcome him back. Secretary’s report:Ralph Doyle, Secretary MotionContinue Reading
As of 7/1/2020 St. Charles County parks are still open. At the request of the members we have re-opened the Porta-Potty and Pavilion, however members are to use these facilities at their own risk. Currently, masks are not required in St. Charles county although if you are not able toContinue Reading
Thanks for all the votes from our members. Your Presidents Spitfire took 2nd place out of 756 entries! My Hobbysquawk call-sign is “2FewDaysatFlyingfield” and as you can see, we pretty much owned the LIFT and DRAG brackets! Ultimately the AL37 / AWAC modification by Joey Jorgenson ended up taking homeContinue Reading
Lets face it. All servo testers are little electronic pieces of junk. Until now! At least that is my experience. I’ve probably purchased at least 3 or 4 of them and they ALL die eventually. Jump over to Amazon and they range from $7.00 to $15.00 and they are allContinue Reading
Just watch the video if you love amazing videography of aerobatics, smoke, and impossible G’s by incredible pilots. 😀 Featuring the Extra 330SC, Edge 540, Pitts S1/2, Sukhoi Su-29 and Extreme XA41.Continue Reading
You may be sulking around the house because your favorite college basketball team isn’t playing because of the Coronavirus (or maybe not) but either way, if you like to look at the customization that your fellow flyers are doing to the planes they by at MotionRC, jump over to HobbysquawkContinue Reading
I’ve loved this plane since I first saw Bob Odegaard fly her at Reno in about 2000. Here’s the story….Continue Reading
Back when I used to scratch build airplanes (In this case, 3D print one) I always liked to try and use proven airfoil profiles. Sure, you can just draw something that looks like an airfoil for your project but why not use the “Actual” airfoil that was used for thatContinue Reading
For those of you who are members of the FliteTest community, you know Josh Bixler. The time to act is now!Continue Reading
Finding a place that has an incredible amount of content for scratch building a variety of odd or different model aircraft is often difficult to impossible. Often you end up paying $’s for paper plans and if you want those electronically, you have to either scan them yourself if youContinue Reading
Happy Valentine’s Day! Get your dues in before the end of the March meeting! President Ralph Grant: Meeting called to order at 7:02pm by Greg Bowles, Ralph being out of town on business. Attendance: 16 members attended the meeting that included new member David Looke and three guests. Secretary’s report:Continue Reading
Most of you know how big of a Extreme Flight Fanboy I am and founder, Chris Hinson fan. I’ve owned at least a dozen of his air-frames since Mark Trent introduced me to the 60″ Laser, which I wiped out in that fateful “Dual Rate” debacle but ultimately ended upContinue Reading
The Great Planes GeeBee has been sitting in my workshop for about 2 years now. I essentially got it for free from Tower-Hobbies with some hobby bucks I had that were almost about to expire. The plane seemed like a fun little critter but it had one major flaw. TheContinue Reading
Monthly Meeting Minutes for January 14, 2020 By Ralph Doyle, Secretary President Ralph Grant: Meeting called to order at 7:02pm. Ralph mentioned that the PayPal system is up and running. Attendance: 17 members attended the meeting and we had one Guest, Mark Tillotson. Secretary’s report: Ralph Doyle, Secretary Motion made,Continue Reading
Our Frozen Fingers fly-in made the National AMA News in the January 15th 2020 episode of AMA Air, a talk-show that is dedicated to all things model aviation. Check out the link below. If your impatient like me, fast forward to 5:37 to see the clip about us. After all,Continue Reading
Spirits friend and aviation enthusiast Carmello Turdo over at “The Aero Experience” paid us a visit on New Years Day and was kind enough to feature a story and capture some images of most of the planes of the day. If you missed the New Years Fly-In then run overContinue Reading
So it seems that every time we turn around, there is a new proposed rule that puts our flying at risk. I have read the proposed rules and they WILL impact us if allowed to pass unmodified. The AMA has done an excellent job reviewing the proposal and giving weContinue Reading
Check out Trent and 15 of his buddies out in Reno in this fun video. What a lifestyle…Continue Reading
The last Flightlines of 2019 has been posted totthe archive.Continue Reading
The newsletter has been posted in the Archive!Continue Reading