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About 11 months since starting this Barth 1:3 Waco project. It’s been an adventure! I expected to be further along but the winter months slowed me down as it’s too cold to spray dope. I need two more nice days to apply a final coat of Sig Tennessee Red. ThisContinue Reading

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Auto Window Decals 5″x5″ with our revised Club logo. These are vinyl and designed to withstand the sun. $5/each. Proceeds goto the club (or to buy more). I have 50, er, 49, and will bring to next meeting and to the field. Contact Stephen A.Continue Reading

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, it’ has been too long since I posted in the build series. Truth is the work has been continually progressing and focused on the finer bits of finishing the Waco. Did not feel there was anything really exciting to show you. “Look Ma, rivets! Real ones andContinue Reading

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Admittedly, it’s been too long since I posted an update. Partly because life got in the way. Second, progress was slow with wiring and the like (not very exciting work to photograph), third, I got stuck in a few areas and had to do some re-work. The N struts wereContinue Reading

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Held at Serra’s Pizzeria, Maryland Hts, MO, call to order 7pm. Secretary’s Report: Stephen Adams, <not present> Approved Minutes from Oct mtg Show and Tell – Intros only at this time, then discussion after Adjournment.     Dan Morrison – Arrows Avanti 50mm EDF, a solid candidate for Pylon Racing ClassContinue Reading

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Meeting at Bob Gizzie Memorial Field, meeting called to order @ 6:57pm Secretary’s Report Stephen Adams Minutes from Sep mtg. approved Voice vote to confirm BoD nomination/voting process fix approved. It was recommended that Bart Asher be nominated for VP, he was not present to accept, Dan M will contactContinue Reading

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Tue, Aug 12, 2025 Spirits RC Flying Club Meeting at Bob Gizzie Memorial Field, meeting called to order @ 7pm President’s Message             Meeting decorum or just go informal? Overwhelmingly, a formal meeting is desired by membership.             – Please come to our meetings, but while meeting is in order,Continue Reading

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Spirits RC Flying Club Meeting at Steve Pokorny’s, meeting called to order @ 7:20pm An abbreviated Float Fly-In was held between the raindrops and thunderstorms before the meeting…meeting was delayed slightly for this reason. Brian Aubuchon and Dan Morrison were flying, Steve Pokorny and others were boating…good times, just tooContinue Reading

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The Great Planes 70” Waco was reduced to this pile of hardware due to a failure to properly preflight the aircraft. The underlying physical issue was insufficient up elevator travel to pull out of the dive. Down in the corn (big thanks to Bob who ventured in with me) weContinue Reading

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We had a good time for the 2nd Annual Biplanes over Bonhomme Island event. Crowd was smaller than last year (likely due to heat) but we had a great time. It was an open event so we had some fast-movers as well. I brought out the Barth 1:3 scale WacoContinue Reading