According to Spirits own Paul Geders, Mark Twain Hobbies has BIND AND FLY Night Vapors in the store for $106.85 with Tax including your Spirits of St. Louis Discount of 10%. You’ll need a Spektrum radio to fly it. GET ‘EM for the February 8th indoor fly/meeting BEFORE THEY AREContinue Reading
A trailer? Really? So, now that I have planes ready to fly I soon have another problem. Transporting airplanes to Gizzie Field. I was also experiencing hangar overpopulation; as my son overtook my shop and relegated me to the garage. A problem for certain but one only a flyer canContinue Reading
Waynes must have run out of balsa kits because he’s looking around the shop for things to do. Next Victim, the Ace 1/4 scale clipped wing Taylorcraft. Basic framing was done by Paul Habel in the 90’s. He pulled it off the ceiling where it had been hanging since 1993Continue Reading
Special thanks to Steve Pokorny for being gracious enough to host the Club at the December Meeting at his awesome home. Minutes from the meeting are below:Continue Reading
Restarting into the hobby after years of inactivity. My year-in-review story.Continue Reading
Fly, Meet, Race / Fly Some More! Special thanks to Dan “Danno” Morrison for working tirelessly to get us a great venue to fly in and hold our February 8th Meeting. Bring your indoor capable drone, airplane, helicopter, or other flying device to fly. We will be having Night VaporContinue Reading
2021 is coming to a close, finally: I find myself sitting here as a pretty exhausted dude after the end of year marathon of 17 straight weeks of travel and 60+ hour work weeks. Its finally coming to an end after what has been another crazy year. The pandemic obiouslyContinue 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
I’ve always liked the design of the Pliatus-9 so I put together that plane over the 2018 winter season and flew it often at the field. Unfortunately, the plane decided to re-kit itself later in the year when the elevator control failed. Needing a replacement, I discovered an option whileContinue Reading
Starting this month I’m proceeding to change the format of the minutes / Flightlines to be in PDF format. In most cases the minutes are multiple pages so to view more than the first page, hover your mouse or touch the PDF with your finger on your phone to pageContinue Reading
Monthly Meeting Minutes for October 13, 2021By Ralph Doyle, Secretary President Ralph Grant:President Ralph Grant was out of town on business. V. President Dave Harrington called the meeting to order at 7PM. Attendance:18 members attended the meeting. Secretary’s report:Ralph Doyle, Secretary Motion made, seconded and voted to accept the SeptemberContinue Reading
President Ralph Grant: Meeting at the field called to order at 7:05pm. Attendance: Due to the bad weather only13 members attended the meeting in person. Secretary’s report: Ralph Doyle, Secretary Motion made, seconded and voted to accept the August meeting minutes as posted on the web site. There is aContinue 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
Monthly Meeting Minutes for August 10, 2021By Ralph Doyle, Secretary President Ralph Grant:Meeting called to order at 7:00 pm by Ralph Grant Attendance:28 people attended the meeting. Two new members have joined, Ivan Perez and Marty Ferrell. Former member Mike Wallis was in attendance. Secretary’s report:Ralph Doyle, Secretary MotionContinue 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