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So Basically Everyone!!! On September 28th it would be awesome if we could get at least a dozen electric warbird racers! I would be willing to bet that just about every single member of the club has an electric warbird! If you can takeoff, fly in a 660’ oval, andContinue Reading

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Flies like a 30’s Racer Should, On Rails! The 1/5th scale Ryan STA by Phoenix models is a fantastic sport flyer. Of all the single seat aerobatic sport planes that Claude Ryan built, this is one of my all time favorites. It made its full scale debut on June 8thContinue Reading

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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

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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

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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

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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.  The first aircraft, a P-51 owned by David Lynch was recovered by Dave’s patented “Spoon” aircraft fishing lure.  Easy, Peasy! The second, was a ducted fan jetContinue Reading

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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

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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