TAC Fly-in & Picnic

U U Kenneth D Wilson e County Aero model airplane club Teopie f Vincennes Indiana tries get young interested model airplanes TACs Annual Fly-In Picnic October 24 1998 new very successful yet very simple idea employed June 1997 issue ModelAviation published construction article build simple hand-launched gliders foam egg cartons abound homes takes about three minutes sharp X ActoTM knife penny nose counterbalance have instant flying machine TAC model airplane club rounded up empty foam egg cartons could found precut gliders ready fly Annual Fly-In Picnic morning Fly-In TAC club members got field early test-flew glider aircraft simple test-flying turned TAC member egg-carton glider contest As TAC members other modeling guests began arrive gliders passed out kids attendance precontest gliding allow youthful entrants get feel flying egg carton As Radio Control airplanes being flown section TAC flying field ONeal airport kids section themselves egg-carton glider meet held standard AMA Hand-Launched Glider contest would have held competitor got six timed flights best three timed flights added first through fifth places awarded trophies ribbons Nat Greene won first place Lucas Greene second Amanda Banks came third Travis Banks fourth Heather Green fifth As Fly-In progressed onlookers interested foam gliders & Radio Control airplanes TAC members questioned ONeal Field visitors could obtain pattern Elementary school teachers bible school Sunday school teachers etc wanted have such modeling affair youth organizations Fortunately TAC model airplane club anticipated such interest glider patterns pass out end TACs Fly-In Picnic day question fun egg carton foam glidersthe kids TAC members toss-upwell egg-carton foam glider toss-up anyway eth D Wilson 2324 E Florida St Evansville IN 4 7711-4812 E-mail kdwavhistorian @juno corn Following reprint instructions July1999 45 Six-year-old Eric Ernst Olney IL tosses h egg-carton foam glider six model used story attempts Photo Jack R Still Foam glider contest winners L-R H Green fifth T Banks fourth Banks third 1 Greene second N Greene first Event director Ken Wilson back