…Bring May Flowers Monthly Meeting Minutes for May 13, 2020 By Ralph Doyle, Secretary President Ralph Grant: Zoom meeting called to order at 7:10pm. Attendance: 14 members attended the meeting. Secretary’s report: Ralph Doyle, Secretary Motion made, seconded and voted to accept the April meeting minutes as published on theContinue Reading
Monthly Meeting Minutes for April 14, 2020By Ralph Doyle, Secretary President Ralph Grant: The first ever virtual Zoom meeting called to order at 7:15pm. Attendance: 13 members attended the meeting. Secretary’s report:Ralph Doyle, Secretary Motion made, seconded and voted to accept the March meeting minutes as published on the Spirits webContinue Reading
I love “Golden Age” aircraft which means that I also love a radial engine. I cannot stand that flimsy vacuum formed piece of plastic they provide with kits to represent the awesomeness that is supposed to be inside that round cowl. Back in the old days, I used to makeContinue Reading
The Need for a Project Being stuck at home, except for the grocery store and getting food at drive thru locations, meant there was only one thing to do…build something! Got down to the installation of the battery and called Mark Twain Hobby to buy what I usually use. TheyContinue Reading
The Review: The Legacy Aviation Muscle Bipe is loosely based on the hot rodded and highly modified Waco UPF-7 flown by the late airshow legend Jimmy Franklin and known as the Mystery Ship. The Muscle Bipe is Extreme Flights tribute to Jimmy and to classic barnstormer airshow style aerobatics. ManyContinue Reading
Look out for the Ides of March! Monthly Meeting Minutes for March 11, 2020 By Ralph Doyle, Secretary President Ralph Grant: Meeting called to order at 7:02pm by Ralph Grant. Attendance: 15 members attended the meeting that included a renewing member, John Bruno. Welcome him back. Secretary’s report:Ralph Doyle, Secretary MotionContinue Reading
As of 7/1/2020 St. Charles County parks are still open. At the request of the members we have re-opened the Porta-Potty and Pavilion, however members are to use these facilities at their own risk. Currently, masks are not required in St. Charles county although if you are not able toContinue Reading
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
Lets face it. All servo testers are little electronic pieces of junk. Until now! At least that is my experience. I’ve probably purchased at least 3 or 4 of them and they ALL die eventually. Jump over to Amazon and they range from $7.00 to $15.00 and they are allContinue Reading
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
You may be sulking around the house because your favorite college basketball team isn’t playing because of the Coronavirus (or maybe not) but either way, if you like to look at the customization that your fellow flyers are doing to the planes they by at MotionRC, jump over to HobbysquawkContinue Reading
I’ve loved this plane since I first saw Bob Odegaard fly her at Reno in about 2000. Here’s the story….Continue Reading
Back when I used to scratch build airplanes (In this case, 3D print one) I always liked to try and use proven airfoil profiles. Sure, you can just draw something that looks like an airfoil for your project but why not use the “Actual” airfoil that was used for thatContinue Reading
For those of you who are members of the FliteTest community, you know Josh Bixler. The time to act is now!Continue Reading
Finding a place that has an incredible amount of content for scratch building a variety of odd or different model aircraft is often difficult to impossible. Often you end up paying $’s for paper plans and if you want those electronically, you have to either scan them yourself if youContinue Reading
Happy Valentine’s Day! Get your dues in before the end of the March meeting! President Ralph Grant: Meeting called to order at 7:02pm by Greg Bowles, Ralph being out of town on business. Attendance: 16 members attended the meeting that included new member David Looke and three guests. Secretary’s report:Continue Reading
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