34th Annual Radio Control Fly-in Underway in St. George If you are in the St. George, UT area don’t miss the Remote Possibilities Radio Control Club’s 34th Annual Presidents Day Fly-in this weekend Thursday, February 23 – 26th at the club’s new field located at 3780 South 1550 West in […]
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Throughout middle school, John Owsinski dreamed of getting his 1963 blue and yellow string plane into the air. He remembers staring up at the gift from his uncle in his garage where the plastic box was gathering dust. He never did get it to fly.Owsinski ended up spending his career surrounded by jets and planes, and chooses to spend his retirement in a similar fashion. Most weekday mornings, he can be found at the electric radio control flying field at the Orange County Great Park, chatting with other RC aficionados or concentrating on one of his models soaring over the fields of the former Marine base
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Tucson Club Helps Christmas Gifts Fly
Sonoran Desert Flyers, an all-electric flying club in Tucson, Arizona, hit on a great idea to help people who received RC aircraft for Christmas learn to fly. Two weeks after Christmas, the club holds a “Buy, Build and Fly” event where people can bring their aircraft and receive help building, ground school instruction, and flight training.
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Carl Frisby nimbly maneuvers a scale model aircraft above an open field located just off Allatoona Dam Road on the outskirts of Emerson.
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AMA Chartered Club #2713 Paulding County Model Aviation Club
By Mary Hood | 1/13/2012 Aviation for the common man Neighborhood Newspaper The love for their model aviation hobby is evidenced by the field full of model flyers on a warm, sunny Friday afternoon in north Paulding County.The camaraderie among the members of the Paulding County Model Aviation Club is […]
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AMA Chartered Club #3249 Sonoran Desert Flyers
Posted in Northwest, ByTim-w-glass Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2012 12:00 am A whisper-quiet jet soared past the crowd at speeds up to 100 mph, one of three ducted-fan jets flown during a demonstration Sunday at the second annual Buy, Build and Fly event hosted by the Sonoran Desert Flyers. Read more: […]
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By Terry Evan Posted Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011 Star-Telegram Bob Wilder can’t remember a time when he wasn’t flying model airplanes.”I’m building a radio-controlled World War I biplane now for indoor flight,” said the 74-year-old Colleyville man.Many of Wilder’s models are small enough to be powered by electric motors, or […]
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NASA Partnering with Chartered Club #1737 Muroc Model Masters
Come and see and learn how NASA Dryden Flight Research Center uses the DRIOD or Dryden Remotely Operated Integrated Drone for flight research, pilot training and the INSPIRE student internship program. The DROID is one of four aircraft used for INSPIRE or Interdisciplinary National Science Project Incorporating Research and Education […]
Continue readingAMA Chartered Club #249 Southeast Missouri Modelers Association (SEMMA)
Model planes a fun hobby for “kids” of all ages
By: ROBYN GAUTSCHY | 12/09/11 3:00 AM
Southeast Missourian
Model airplanes aren’t just for kids. In the Southeast Missouri Modelers Association, small-scale pilots of all ages gather to fly planes big and small, and to teach the trade to others.
“I joke about it, but it’s true — we have kids in there from age 8 to 80. We’re all interested in some aspect of aviation, whether it’s helicopters, small or large planes, electric or fuel-powered,” says Doug Leslie, who’s been building and flying model planes since the early 1990s. Three years ago, he retired from his post as Cape Girardeau’s city manager and opened Tailwinds RC Hobby Center on South Plaza Way, where he enjoys living his hobby and meeting other model enthusiasts. Leslie, a licensed pilot since 1972, still flies full-scale planes recreationally, but says there are perks to flying model planes.
Continue readingUnique club teaches students about aeronautics
Tucker Creek Middle School has a new opportunity this year for students. Our resource officer Jeffrey Fedyna wanted to share his knowledge and love for aeronautics with the students. The students meet on Tuesday mornings from 7 a.m.-7:45 a.m. Officer Fedyna is owner of the hobby shop in Havelock GBI Hobbies and generously provides the materials and flight simulators to the school for this club. Each of the students are members of the Academy of Model Aeronautics.
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