Summer encampment introduces MARC RC Flight Academy Cadets to flight

70 MARC RC flight academy cadets participated in this year’s summer encampments at the March Air Force Base in California and Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Each cadet was able to solo a Sensei RC trainer airplane. Randy Carlson reports, “We flew them here in California in 104 -109 degree F weather and they worked out just fine. Like we suspected last year, you have to limit the flight times to 6-7 minutes and and every so often take the plane out of the line up to rest and cool down. No components overheated, think about that. One day we were flying in 115 degree hot & dry heat and the Sensei kept on going as if nothing was any different than 72 – 80 degrees in Wisconsin. We had 45-cadets flying, all soloed, half at Fond du Lac where they had one of the biggest of RC flying fields to learn on, and 25-cadets learned at the Redlands CA AAMA field which is very small and surrounded on two sides by tall eucalypti trees. Only one plane was snagged and we got it back days later with a small hole in the wing, easily repairable. One cadet at Oshkosh was there for his 5th summer, and immediately left afterwards for the naval academy at Annapolis to begin training to be a naval officer and  he has been selected for jet pilot training when he graduates. It all started with MARC in 2012 and in a small way is a tribute to all who have been a part in what we all have done, summer after summer.”

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