Tag: Glastonbury High School

Ringing in 2025!

Upcoming indoor meets Feb 2 (G’bury) and Feb 9 (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!

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!

2022-23 Indoor Season One Design

Twofer the One Design Event!

Oh my, it’s December already!  And I haven’t got my One Design model completed for the 2022-23 Indoor Flying Season.  And…and there’s TWO of them to build too!

Time flies while we’re having fun, eh?

So, our stealthy webmaster finally updated the One Design page on the Stealth Sqdn site.  Check it out.  You’ll find the all important Rules here in case you lost the original emails these were sent out with.  Use the Contact Us form to find out how you can get a short kit or plan for the Potez dimer.  We’ve got some great Bird Dog docs to share with you as well. Color schemes, 3 views, detailed pics and more from the Bird Dog Squadron Signal publication.  Just ask via the Contact Us form and we’ll shoot the good stuff off to you.

Hopefully some of the pics on the One Design page will get your building juices flowing.  And yes, please send us pics of your in progress or completed One Design builds to .  We’ll get them up on this site for all to see.

See you in the gym skyster!

 

2019-20 Indoor Season Kicks Off!

fly in the gym!

OK gang, the weather’s turning colder and the Indoor flying season is here.

Check the links at right to see the dates in Georgetown and Glastonbury.  Glastonbury kicks off on Sunday Nov. 10, while Georgetown kicks off on Jan. 5.  

There are lots of opportunities to fly free flight rubber in the gyms.  Don’t forget to build your Pipit and join the fun!

“click the links below to view flying dates in Georgetown, MA and Glastonbury, CT”