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The Spirits have a new Flat-Top Grill.  It’s 36″ and should easily handle almost 30 burgers.  I see a breakfast fly in our future! Best practices for use are: If you want a quick training session on using it, ask Ralph Grant for help and he will cook a cheeseburgerContinue Reading

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Please review the updated Safety Rules that will be presented for acceptance vote at the March 11, 2025 regular club meeting, to be effective March 16, 2025. Membership commenting period has closed and the product of many weeks of discussion and thoughtfulness is ready for adoption. This updated rules setContinue Reading

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The FAA is changing and modernizing the National Airspace System. These modernizations particularly affect small Unmanned Aircraft Systems, or sUAS – our model airplanes and us, recreational flyers. They have made certain exceptions for the Spirits of St. Louis RC Flying Club Inc. We now are able to operate under a persistentContinue Reading

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Our own Walt Wilson was published in the October 2002 issue of Model Aviation magazine. This is a great resource if you are looking for history on our great flying field. Original article on AMA website. Anatomy of a Flying FieldContinue Reading

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RESULTS AND PHOTOS: Our latest Fun Fly contest is in the books. The event had 13 contestants and included timed event trials like Lift, Roop, Land aimed at shortest elapsed time and Timed Flight that was an exercise that was scored on who flew the mission and landed closest toContinue Reading

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Thanks to our club members stepping up the Spirits will be hosting two new events. First, a Float Fly Tuesday July 11th at Steve Pokorny’s place. The event will start in the afternoon (2p) and conclude with the regular club meeting (sitting around, or in, Steve’s new pool). Also, plansContinue Reading

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The Dave’s (Brown and Harrington) and a few others (Tesson and Whitrock) were kind enough to pound a Sandpoint and install a well hand pump into the ground this past Saturday. They hit water at about 14 feet. They should be glad I wasn’t able to make it because IContinue Reading