Its never fun when you get the call from one of our R/C flying family that we have lost one of our treasured members. Ken Brock was a long time Spirits Member that loved everything about model aviation. His time on this earth was definately cut short as you canContinue Reading
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
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
Hope everyone is staying inside, safe and warm today. In this installment I intend to answer a few questions raised at club meetings and point out remaining details. There is some polishing to do in the spring but the hard part is done and I am looking forward to usingContinue 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
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
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
Aug 14th 2021 was recognized as Model Aviation Day. The Spirits had a wonderful turnout of 40+/- flyers and spectators. The weather was awesome. CHECK OUT THE HIGHLIGHTS!Continue Reading
Our Field Chairman Dave Brown has been onsite the last two HOT days as Wayne Eriksmoen, of Wayne’s Grading, has been extending the parking lot. My son, Sam, was onsite assisting his grandfather Thursday. This action will offer more parking for events and support flyers with trailers. There will additionalContinue Reading
We all know our planes crash. It’s never fun. Always sucks. Yet we fly, we crash, we grab another plane and do it all over again. Dave commented “at least it will fit better in my truck now”. That’s the spirit Dave.Continue 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
Sid joins us to discuss his Uproar and about being new to pylon racing. We welcome everyone to joins us September 11th for our next FourStar, Uproar, Warbird Race. We need spectators, volunteers and, above all else, pilots. The more the merrier they say. Get your own Uproar @ TowerHobbies.Continue Reading
