Upcoming indoor meets Feb 2 (G’bury) and Feb 9 (G’town). Be there!
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Winter Flying Fun!
Brrrrr, it’s COLD! New England free-flighters are a hardy breed and we’ve been known to fly our fragile models in some pretty harsh conditions. Like this Mid-Winter Madness meet back in January ’75 at Pinkham Field in Durham.
We haven’t done that lately, but there’s a blizzard of indoor flying going on here in the Northeast. Lots of socializing too – musicians, writers, pilots..we’ve got it all. Budding author Rich Z even had his story The Cannoneers read on New Year’s Eve on local radio station WHAV 97.9 FM!
And we’ve already had our first two indoor meets of 2025.
On Jan 5 we flew in the big gym at Glastonbury HS in Connecticut. Skyboss John K was out sick, but clubsters stepped up and the meet came off without a hitch. Lots of Scrappy One Designs were flying and John sent out the Scrappy Scoresheet after the meet. Ray H. has to top time with his Scrappy, but Jim R is a scant 2 seconds back and he’s fitted a promising new prop to boost duration. Surely the 2min mark will fall soon. Mitch K leads in the “closest to average flight time” category with lots of flyers vying for the pole position.
The next weekend (Jan 12) the Georgetown middle school gym was abuzz with stick and tissue models flitting about. Yet more Scrappy’s were getting airtime and all seemed to be flying well. Jon C showed up with a Freebird ornithopter, illustrating the broad range of rubber powered free flight models. All of the usual competition events were flown. Check out the Event Results below (thanks Steve!)
Stealth Squadron Jan 12, 2025 Results Page 1
Stealth Squadron Jan 12, 2025 Results Page 2
See you in the gym in early February skysters!