District XI
The following column was submitted by Jim Hiller:
I JUST RETURNED from the Emerald Air Corps (EAC) Annual Pattern Contest held at Walker Field, just south of Creswell, Oregon.
The McClellan family and friends have managed and served as CDs for the contest for 25 consecutive years—providing a fun time and great food.
Twenty competitors gathered to fly in nearly perfect conditions. Roy and Dorothy Speights of California joined Northwest competitors. Roy has been actively competing throughout the West for nearly three decades, attending all 25 Emerald Air Corps contests. I’ve enjoyed flying with the couple since the mid-1980s.
Additional information about the event is available at the National Society of Radio Controlled Aerobatics (NSRCA) site: www.nsrca.us.
Photos by Gordon Anderson.
Transcribed from original scans by AI. Minor OCR errors may remain.
