Flightmasters' Second Annual Electric Meet
THERE WAS electricity in the air on the Sunday morning of April 25th and I don't mean lightning. On this morning, the Flightmasters' second annual electric model airplane meet got under way at Mile Square Park in Fountain Valley, CA. The park is literally a mile square which is subdivided into a montage of recreational facilities which include a golf course, picnic area and a modeling site. In years past, these 27,878,400 sq. ft. were operated as an airport until it was shutdown due to its urban location. The flying site, which is also infested by RC cars and full-size land sailors, is separated with free-flight, RC and the land sailors each taking one of the 2,000-ft. legs of the equilateral triangle that make up the runways (2,000 ft. being a relatively short strip to put her down on for the modern day full-scale airplane drive) of this abandoned airfield.
Icarus
NEARLY ALL categories to be found in the governing pages of the AMA rule book have been subject to revisions as new ideas and concepts relating to or in the form of model aircraft, gradually evolve into competitive events. Five years ago, RC helicopters were as impractical as a Martian landing; today, skeptics are eating their hats. And who would have believed that P-nut scale would be the rage? Even pylon freaks are building them. Whatever the case, it is these new concepts and modifications to the old that make the hobby-sport interesting.
