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3/9 Georgetown Indoor & NRE Event Update

See you at the Sunday, March 9  Georgetown, MA meet! 

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SCRAPPY ONE DESIGN SCOREBOARD 3.3.2025
Capt. Struhl’s Tubular Terror – a new addition to the NRE Tribute Event Fleet!
Sam B. continues to advance the Super Capacitor powertrain for stick & tissue free flight models. His GAR Cub flew very realistically in the Glastonbury HS gym.
2025 Durham CT Whites Farm Mini Meet & Full Day Contest Schedule
There was lots of activity going on at the February Glastonbury HS flying session.

Daylight Savings too

Remember, set your clocks ahead 1hr Saturday night March 8!

You don’t want to show up an hour late for this Sunday’s indoor flying at the Penn Brook Middle School in Georgetown, MA. 

We’ve got a bunch of updates to share this time around gang.  Read on!

Georgetown 2/23 Indoor Results

There was lots of great flying going on at the rescheduled indoor meet in the Penn Brook school gym on February 23.  No pics this time, but we can share the contest event results (thanks Steve!)

2/23/2025 FAC Kanone Report Sheet 1

2/23/2025 Kanone Report Sheet 2

The indoor flying season is drawing short – you still have time to make official Scrappy One Design flights  (see Scoreboard in sidebar).

Durham, CT Outdoor Dates Posted

As usual, there are four Full Day outdoor Flying Aces Club contests scheduled this year.  The Spring Fling (Jun. 8), Mid-Summer Melt (Aug. 10), the Fall Fly-In (Sep. 14) and the Turkey Fly (Nov. 16).  Check the Calendar and Coming Events on this site to view the Meet Flyers for all the details. 

There are also Mini Meets scheduled for mornings on the first Sunday of most months during the outdoor season.   See the dates on the Pinkham Field (Durham) schedule HERE.
Ed Novak Tribute Event Updates

The NRE Tribute Event was a huge success at the Turkey Trot Contest back in November 2024 at Pinkham Field (Whites Farm) in Durham, CT.  This event will be run again at the Durham, CT FAC meets this year.  Check the Pinkham Field schedule for the specifics. 

And guess what?  A new all-sheet sport design in the spirit of the Tribute Event has been added to the roster.  Capt. Dick Struhl’s Tubular Terror!  Download a scan of the original plan and construction article for the Terror on the NRE Tribute Event page on this site.  What a deal – it’s Free!  Check out the updated Novak Tribute Event guidelines/rules too. 
Let us know via this site’s Contact Us form if you need help printing the plan, or getting some of that vintage BLACK RUBBER motor for your model.
Whew, that’s all for now gang.  Back to the building board — and
see you in the Penn Brook school gym (Georgetown, MA) on March 9!

Feb 23 Meet & Tips

Sunday February 23 Georgetown, MA meet is ON  See you there! 

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Harry flew his Hellcat for the first time at the February Glastonbury flying session. Put in some great flights.
The classic Pink Pearl eraser. Dollar store versions work too.
Lamination hold downs that don’t stick..
A soft clamp for many applications..
Cut to shape they make good stamps. That’s a Scrappy insignia!
Make your own custom stamps..
Harry Culver’s F6F Hellcat with the supplies and tools he used to finish the model. Beautiful!

Building & Finishing Tips

FLASH – The FEBRUARY Georgetown meet has been rescheduled to Sunday 2/23/2025 in the Penn Brook middle school.  View FLYER for directions & contacts.

Since it’s the building season, here are some quick modeling tips from our clubsters..

Airbrushed Ink Finishes

Clubster Harry C. was flying his new, enlarged Nassise Hellcat at the February Glastonbury, CT flying session.  This model (sidebar pics) sports a beautiful airbrushed ink finish.  A brief run-down from Harry:

“I bought the ink locally at Jerry’s Artarama (available online).  The colors are Artfinity alcohol ink from 25 ml bottles intended for marker refills.  There are earth tones, olive greens and greys that would be useful for other camo schemes.  I used Liquitex acrylic ink for the white simply because there was no white available from Artifinity.  There are colors in the Liquitex line but not as many and they are more vivid.  I used the ink unthinned in a Paasche model H external mix airbrush and it went on very dry, requiring three coats to get good color definition.  Even so the total weight gain was only on the order of a gram.  I held the airbrush fairly close to the model, perhaps three inches or so.  The insignia were done with 0.002” low tack frisket film cut to shape.  Next time I would probably paint the whole model with white to get better opacity on the color layers.  A top layer of Krylon clear acrylic would add durability at the cost of more weight.” 

Harry did a fabulous job rendering the tricky 2 tone blue/white color scheme on his Hellcat.  Airbrushed insignia too – wow!  Who’s next to give it a try?

Dollar Store Eraser Tools

Modelers are a resourceful lot.  They’re often cheap too. 

Our creative Vermont clubsters discovered that the ubiquitous “Pink Pearl” eraser makes a great multi-use building tool.  Cheap discount store erasers work well too.  Cut into small bricks (sidebar pics), they make soft yet firm hold downs for those lightweight laminated balsa flying surface outlines.  No more pin marks and the eraser bits will not get glued to the lamination.  Need a small, easily adjustable clamp for holding fragile parts together?  Bits of eraser on a long common pin will do the trick.  So, you don’t want to break out the airbrush for some simple decorations on your next model?   Carve an eraser to make your own stamp.    Use your imagination and get creative with these simple tools.

That’s all for now gang.  Back to the building board — and
see you in the gym on February 23!

Feb 9 Georgetown Meet Cancelled

Upcoming indoor meets Feb 2 (G’bury) and Feb TBD (G’town).  Be there! 

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Model aviators confer on next moves with their Scrappy’s!
Sam and Rich at the Jan 5 Glastonbury meet. Sam won WW1 ML with his neat Bristol F2B.
Steve and George ready to launch in the Golden Age ML launch event on Jan 12.
Vance flew his antique Lacey M-10 at the Jan 12 Georgetown meet.
Clubsters at Vance’s Jan 11 show at Passim. Great music!
Clubsters at Rittmeister’s Christmas Eve Open House. Great Fun!
Glastonbury flyers at the January 5 meet. Check out the Scrappy One Design Scoresheet in this post!

SNOW!

The Sunday FEBRUARY 9 Meet in the Georgetown, MA middle school has been CANCELLED due to SNOW CONDITIONS.  Please stay home and build!

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!

April 2 Meet Results, Pics & Video

Check the Calendar page for Oudoor Season flying dates

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Ara preps his Guillows Bird Dog
Rich brought a beautiful new SE 5a Peanut Scale model built from a Jon C laser cut short kit
Rich and William getting ready for the Golden Age Mass Launch event

 

 

Bob B. (foreground) won his first Kanone in the Pussycat Mass Launch event

2023 Indoor Season Finale

The Stealth Squadron 2023 Indoor Flying Season was closed with the final meet on April 2.

Several new models made an appearance and another modeler won their first Kanone (Bob B with his Baxter Pussycat).

Competition was keen as usual.  Check out the results below:

Kanone Report, Stealth Squadron April 2023, Page 1

Kanone Report, Stealth Squadron April 2023, Page 2

We’ve got a compilation video of the action to share as well:

Outdoor Dates Posted to Calendar

We’ve got a full schedule of FAC free flight meets scheduled.

Get out and fly with the gang at Woodsom Farm in Amesbury, MA and Pinkham Field in Durham, CT.  We’ve even got another June date booked at the Pony Express Field in picturesque Ipswich, MA!

Check out the Calendar page, or Coming Events in the sidebar of this site.  Mark your personal calendar and as always, see you on the flightline skyster!

 

March 12 Indoor Meet Results & Pics

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Jim launches his Stick Model.  Looks like a Jetco ROG
Rich and his White Monoplane, 2nd place Golden Age ML
Ara readies his FAC Trainer for flight
Ray winds the rubber motor in his Voisin Hydro, 1st place Pioneer Scale
 Jon covered his stick model with a lightweight shopping bag made from recycled materials

 

George’s Waco cruises by. This model won the FAC Scale and Golden Age Mass Launch events.

New Flyers, New Models, old favorites

Wow, the Penn Brook Middle School gym was as busy as a beehive in May at the March 12 meet! 

Several new flyers from New Hampshire showed up to fly their rubber powered free flight models.   At least one youngster flew a traditional stick and tissue model airplane for the first time.  And the local VW Beetle car club showed up to enjoy the show.

Ara D and Sam B made the trek from ME and CT to join the flying fun.  Always good to see our pals from out of state.

The contest events were friendly, jovial – and competitive as ever.  Check out the results below:

Kanone Report, Stealth Squadron March 2023, Page 1

Kanone Report, Stealth Squadron March 2023, Page 2

Check out the Photo Page for more pics from the March meet.

April Indoor Flying Finale

Sure it’s been snowing up a storm, but Spring is around the corner.

Our indoor flying season wraps up in April with a final flying session in Georgetown, MA on April 2, and another finale in Glastonbury, CT on April 16.  These are your last opportunities to fly indoors in New England this season, so check out the flyers and mark your calendars now.

Outdoor Flying Dates Coming Soon

Keep your eyes peeled on the Coming Events sidebar on the homepage as well as the Calendar on this site.  We’ll be posting the Outdoor Meet and Contest dates soon.  

Hopefully, you’ve been busy as a beaver on the building board and getting some new models ready to go.  We’re really looking forward to seeing the models from Steve E’s online model building class take to the sky.

See you on the flightline skyster!

 

Photos from May 14 Outdoor Season Opener at Woodsom Farm

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Evan and dad Rob with Skylark
Sean with his new Leopard Moth
Steve with his new Corvette
Steve K winds his Hi-Climber
Matt’s stunning Pfalz DIII FAC Scale model  featured a balsa monocoque fuselage

Outdoor Season opener a big success!

Well gang, the 2022 Stealth Sqdn outdoor flying season got off to a strong start on Saturday May 14.

The weather at Woodsom Farm in Amesbury, MA started off with more wind than expected.  But the wind moderated by midday and many long flights were made.

New Models

Flyers were productive over the long winter building season and several new models were seen in the air.

Steve E was spotted flying his big Condor and another new rakish sport model he calls Corvette.  Terrific new designs from Steve.

Sean R entered a great flying Leopard Moth in the Golden Age Civil event.  We think this was from an EasyBuilt kit.

Several Comet T-Crafts from the Indoor One Design event were seen flitting about. 

Vance G put in a few promising test flights with his outstanding new Latecoere FAC Scale Model.  Vance built this from enlarged Steve Griebling plans published in an old Crosswinds newsletter.

Tom N flew his new flat-winged Airdevel Fokker Transport dime scale model.

And there were many more.

Hot Competition

Camaraderie and freindly competition is featured in all Stealth Sqdn meets,  but there were a couple special moments at the May 14 meet. 

Sean R won the hotly contested WW2 mass launch event with his reduced-size version of the Nassise Mustang.

The P-51 “Old Crow” flew straight and long using up much of the field to edge out Tom N’s Polikarpov I-153.

Sean in turn got edged out in the Golden Age/Modern Civil event.  His DH Leopard Moth just couldn’t hang in there against Rich Z’s Guillow’s Fairchild 24 which was flown by Evan P.

Vance G’s dainty little General Airistocrat was flying great and won the Peanut Scale event. 

It was a great day.  See you in June  at the Ipswich Polo Field meet skyster!

 

Last Indoor Meet April 3rd – Outdoor Amesbury Dates Posted

Fly Indoors in Georgetown MA on Sunday April 3!

view photos from March 13 Indoor Meet

Clive G’s DH Leopard Moth
Well be flying Outdoors at Woodsom Farm soon!
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Glastonbury April 10 meet Cancelled!

Whew, we’ve got lots of info to share about upcoming club activities!

First, your last opportunity to fly Indoors this season is this coming Sunday April 3.  Yep,  we’ll be flying in  the Penn Brook Middle School gym in Georgetown MA.  Check out the flyer at top of this post for the Event roster.  See you there!

Check out clubster John Rood’s terrific photos from the March 13 indoor meet here.

And unfortunately the April 10 Meet in Glastonbury CT has been CANCELLED

2022 OUTDOOR AMESBURY DATES SET

Good news here gang.  A full slate of dates has been set for Outdoor Meets at fabulous Woodsom Farm in Amesbury MA.

Check the Upcoming Dates in the sidebar, or the Calendar page of this site and mark you calendars.  Time to get those new models finished up and ready to go!

We’ll be flying many of our popular events at these meets.  Look for the specific Contest Flyers to be posted as the dates approach.   We’ll be posting the Pinkham Field (Durham CT) meet dates soon too.  Lot’s of flying is on the horizon for 2022 for sure!

See you on the flightline skyster!

 

 

 

2022 Roudenbush Model Building Class – Feb Indoor Results

Register for the Model Building Class at Westford’s Roudenbush Center now.  Classes start in March!

 

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Click to view March 13 Indoor Contest Flyer
  Model Class will build the 30in wingspan Condor pictured here

March 13 next Indoor Contest

Click on the Contest Flyer image at left to view the details.

While you’re at it check out the Feb 6 contest results at left as well.

Oh, and there’s only about a week to ten days left to get in your Postal Dime Contest entry.  We’ve had a few more entries and it looks like our southern flyers are in the catbird seat again!  Will it be you that gives the C’ville Flyer a run?

2022 Modeling Class starts March 16

You may recall that clubster Steve Evans ran a model airplane building class last year where a bunch of folks built and flew his Skylark design.  If you missed it, check out the report with pics here.

Well, Steve’s at it again and the new Roudenbush class will start on March 16.  There’s still time to Register, but you better do it quick!  Click on the link below and the Hobbies/Gaming subheader link from there to register.

REGISTER FOR MODEL CLASS

The 30 inch wingspan Condor pictured in flight in the header photo will be the class build subject.  This is a bigger model than Skylark and will be just a super flyer.  We really like that flat wing center section.

Hopefully, we’ll see a bunch of these flying out on Woodsom Farm this coming outdoor season.

See you on the flightline skyster!

 

 

 

Pics: Feb 9 Georgetown Meet

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What fun we had in the Penn Brook Middle School gym in Georgetown a couple weekends back

The header photo above shows the gang getting the rules rundown on the Pipit “12 Minutes of Georgetown” – an event where Pipit flyers scramble to make as many laps around the balloon tethered around the orange cone set at center midcourt.  It was exciting to watch as some flyers turned their Pipits left while others turned in the opposite direction.   At the March 22 meet we’ll be flying the Pipits in head to head pylon racing – be there to join the action…or at least observe.

See you then!

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“check out the great photos from our last indoor flying session & contest”

Now that’s a Pugnacious nose! Rich Z’s Polikarpov bipe FAC scale model is a real treat. Gotta love that fearless pilot in the cockpit!

 Thanks Andy F for the photos!