Fly, Meet, Race / Fly Some More! Special thanks to Dan “Danno” Morrison for working tirelessly to get us a great venue to fly in and hold our February 8th Meeting. Bring your indoor capable drone, airplane, helicopter, or other flying device to fly. We will be having Night VaporContinue Reading
2021 is coming to a close, finally: I find myself sitting here as a pretty exhausted dude after the end of year marathon of 17 straight weeks of travel and 60+ hour work weeks. Its finally coming to an end after what has been another crazy year. The pandemic obiouslyContinue Reading
Spirits own Elf Brian Gilmer has been busy in Santa’s Woodshop building some flight tables to replace the slowy deteriorating polymer tables out at the field. Brian has been using some wood that he has access to so the only investment by the club is for hardware and for paint.Continue Reading
I’ve always liked the design of the Pliatus-9 so I put together that plane over the 2018 winter season and flew it often at the field. Unfortunately, the plane decided to re-kit itself later in the year when the elevator control failed. Needing a replacement, I discovered an option whileContinue Reading
Starting this month I’m proceeding to change the format of the minutes / Flightlines to be in PDF format. In most cases the minutes are multiple pages so to view more than the first page, hover your mouse or touch the PDF with your finger on your phone to pageContinue Reading
Monthly Meeting Minutes for October 13, 2021By Ralph Doyle, Secretary President Ralph Grant:President Ralph Grant was out of town on business. V. President Dave Harrington called the meeting to order at 7PM. Attendance:18 members attended the meeting. Secretary’s report:Ralph Doyle, Secretary Motion made, seconded and voted to accept the SeptemberContinue Reading
President Ralph Grant: Meeting at the field called to order at 7:05pm. Attendance: Due to the bad weather only13 members attended the meeting in person. Secretary’s report: Ralph Doyle, Secretary Motion made, seconded and voted to accept the August meeting minutes as posted on the web site. There is aContinue Reading
As most people know, we lost Spirits own John Bruno back in August. His family and friends were devastated and taken surprise by this horrible event and he will forever be missed. In celebration of the hobby that John loved, The Spirits of St. Louis R/C club will host aContinue Reading
Monthly Meeting Minutes for August 10, 2021By Ralph Doyle, Secretary President Ralph Grant:Meeting called to order at 7:00 pm by Ralph Grant Attendance:28 people attended the meeting. Two new members have joined, Ivan Perez and Marty Ferrell. Former member Mike Wallis was in attendance. Secretary’s report:Ralph Doyle, Secretary MotionContinue Reading
Several weeks back I met Dave Harrington at Gizzie field to Maiden his 104″ Extreme Flight Lazer in the red / white / blue “Thunderbird” Livery. We did our pre-flight check and deemed her flight worthy after making a few changes to the settings in the Advanced Radio “Smoothflight-RRS” gyroContinue Reading
This past week, our club and the entire modeling community lost a long standing member and friend. Depending on who you ask, John can be described as filling any number of roles. To many he was a loving son, a committed Boyfriend and Husband, a dependable Brother, a comedic Cousin,Continue Reading
Monthly Meeting Minutes for July 13, 2021By Ralph Doyle, Secretary President Ralph Grant:Meeting called to order at 7:10 pm by Ralph Grant  Attendance:20 members attended the meeting. Three new/renewed members joined. Chuck Bobb, Ethan Kastner, and Charlie Pokorny. Secretary’s report:Ralph Doyle, Secretary Motion made, seconded and voted to acceptContinue Reading
Monthly Meeting Minutes for June 8, 2021By Ralph Doyle, Secretary President Ralph Grant:Meeting called to order at 7:10 pm by Ralph Grant  Attendance:16 members attended the meeting. Secretary’s report:Ralph Doyle, Secretary Motion made, seconded and voted to accept the May minutes as posted on the web. Treasurer’s Report:Steve Cross,Continue Reading
Anyone who has been a Spirits member for more than a year knows about the infamous “4-Star Forty” by Sig Manufacturing and its functionality as a pylon racing plane in our club. Last year, 4-Star’s were impossible to get thanks to shortages of balsa and other issues. Hence, several ofContinue Reading
Thanks to the efforts of Paul Geders, we have updated the Pylon Racing rules to include the new Uproar Class. I know of at least 4 of these beasts that have been built so we should see some close racing. Depending on how they compete we may toss them inContinue Reading
President Ralph Grant:Meeting called to order at 7:00 pm by Ralph Grant  Attendance:20 members attended the meeting. Secretary’s report:Ralph Doyle, SecretaryMotion made, seconded and voted to accept the April minutes as posted on the web. Treasurer’s Report:Steve Cross, TreasurerThe treasurer’s report for April was available, read and accepted. FieldContinue Reading
