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
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
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
Last night at the meeting we shared a few pictures and stories from the Reno Air Races. The mustang I couldn’t remember the name of was Man-O-War. She’s unique and a beauty. She’s rolling out to race in the image above and you can see here sitting on the tarmacContinue Reading
Rich debuted his new airplane at the last meeting which is a Mike Del Ponte designed Quickie 500 named “Revlution”, not to be confused with a Revolution! Rich scored it from Steve Collins and built it to be electric for cruising around. Paul Geders covered it for him in CreamContinue Reading
There are a few Spirits Members that aren’t candy-asses! Do rain, wind, and cold temperatures get you excited to fly? Are you enticed by the temptation of Chili, Donuts, Coffee and Spirits Member Fellowship? Well apparently the answer to both of those questions is NO for the majority of theContinue Reading
According to Spirits own Paul Geders, Mark Twain Hobbies has BIND AND FLY Night Vapors in the store for $106.85 with Tax including your Spirits of St. Louis Discount of 10%. You’ll need a Spektrum radio to fly it. GET ‘EM for the February 8th indoor fly/meeting BEFORE THEY AREContinue Reading
Waynes must have run out of balsa kits because he’s looking around the shop for things to do. Next Victim, the Ace 1/4 scale clipped wing Taylorcraft. Basic framing was done by Paul Habel in the 90’s. He pulled it off the ceiling where it had been hanging since 1993Continue Reading
Special thanks to Steve Pokorny for being gracious enough to host the Club at the December Meeting at his awesome home. Minutes from the meeting are below:Continue Reading
