Free Flight: Old-Timers
LAWRENCEVILLE looks good to me! I attended the Mid-America Free Flight Champs at Lawrenceville, IL October 17-18, 1987 and had a great time visiting, taking pictures, and scouting ahead: This is the planned site for the 1988 SAM (Society of Antique Modelers-Ed.) Champs. I think it will do fine. How fine depends greatly on the crop situation. The cultivated land (downwind of the prevailing wind directions, of course) is usually planted in corn, so this great annual contest is held in the fall. For next year, it happens that potatoes will be planted, and they should be harvested before the July 18-22 SAM Champs. The first day of last year's Mid-America meet had strong winds (about 15-20 mph), but they were out of the west, and there was a mile of runway and another mile of corn stubble downwind. The second day the wind was very light from the south. Retrieval was not a problem either day. There are some scattered trees, but no forest, no swamp, no ditches, and no tall vegetation for models to hide behind.
Free Flight: Old-Timers
THE SCARIEST THING about writing is that you have to start with a blank sheet of paper. In the past, I have filled many sheets of paper for articles for several model magazines, the National Free Flight Society Digest and Symposiums, and, of course, the Okie Free Flight Flyer. So why the stage fright? Maybe it is the idea of a much larger audience. Maybe it is just the intense desire to do a good job and merit your support. I need your input: news, photos, information. Let's make this page a meeting-place for dialogue, not a lecture hall.
