Gyro? No Gyro?
Is a Gyro cheating? Or is it a helpful tool to our flying experience? There are more opinions than options. What’s yours?Continue Reading
2023-09-05
Radio Showdown – Going the Distance
How far can your radio signals reach? The Lighter Side of RC put eight leading radios through a controlled test to demonstrate the distance from TX to RX before interference and eventual signal loss. If you want to skip the testing and jump to the results go to time 1:06:40.Continue Reading
2023-08-24
Brushless Motor – How they work
Thanks to Paul for the continuing education on electric components.Continue Reading
2023-03-13
January Indoor Fly
Good turn out with a lot of indoor flying. Safe from the cold and wind. In one instance I counted eight planes flying so it was a swarm. I wish I had a plane but I will be prepared next time the Club hosts a similar event.Continue Reading
2023-01-20
Thirty Warbird Formation – Pump up the Volume
Courtesy of Steve Collins. Awesome video. Check it out!Continue Reading
2022-05-22
Maverick Teaser: Beautiful Plane, Lady Gaga, Awesome voice.
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
2022-05-15
Man-O-War: Warbird Wednesday
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
2022-01-12
Walk of Inevitability
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
2021-08-14
Pilot Spotlight: Sid Kinzel
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
2021-07-30
Aerobatics Sunday
With gusts of 30 miles an hour it’s just too dang windy to fly model airplanes today so it looks like it’s going to be a build day in the shop with aviation videos playing on the big screen! My boredom has brought me back to 2014 whereby sheer happenstanceContinue Reading
2021-03-28
A November Day at the Field
A video by John Campbell Our own John Campbell was inspired so much by the amazing weather on the 28th, that he fired up his JVC 4K camera and shot the following video. Thanks John! Remember, anyone can contribute content to the site. Just send in some pictures and aContinue Reading
2020-12-07
September 2020 Meeting Minutes
Happy Labor Day! The photo above is Brian Aubuchon’s Paraglider which can often be seen at the field right before sunset. Monthly Meeting Minutes for September 8, 2020By Ralph Doyle, Secretary President Ralph Grant:Zoom and meeting at the field called to order at 7:05pm. Attendance:17 members attended the meeting inContinue Reading
2020-09-23
July 2020 Meeting Minutes
Monthly Meeting Minutes for July 14, 2020 By Ralph Doyle, Secretary President Ralph Grant: Zoom and meeting at the field called to order at 7:05pm. Attendance: One guest was present along with 13 members attended the meeting in person and 2 more via ZOOM. Secretary’s report: Ralph Doyle, Secretary MotionContinue Reading
2020-07-23
The Yak 110
Every Engineer starts with an equation. (Yak 55 *2 =Yak 110) As soon as Extreme Flight gets 2 Yaks in, I know what I’m going to build!Continue Reading
2020-07-12
Spitfire Takes Second. March Madness Breaking News!
Thanks for all the votes from our members. Your Presidents Spitfire took 2nd place out of 756 entries! My Hobbysquawk call-sign is “2FewDaysatFlyingfield” and as you can see, we pretty much owned the LIFT and DRAG brackets! Ultimately the AL37 / AWAC modification by Joey Jorgenson ended up taking homeContinue Reading
2020-03-20
Top 5 Aerobatic Planes/Pilots!
Just watch the video if you love amazing videography of aerobatics, smoke, and impossible G’s by incredible pilots. 😀 Featuring the Extra 330SC, Edge 540, Pitts S1/2, Sukhoi Su-29 and Extreme XA41.Continue Reading
2020-03-14
The untold story of the Goodyear F2G Super Corsair
I’ve loved this plane since I first saw Bob Odegaard fly her at Reno in about 2000. Here’s the story….Continue Reading
2020-03-02