Spirit of Lorain
HAVING LIVED in the Cleveland area since 1970, I have done a lot of boating on Lake Erie. One day, sailing far offshore in pursuit of better fishing, the lake seemed endless; it occurred to me that, to a model airplane, the lake would be equivalent to an ocean. I wondered if a model could cross from the American side to the Canadian side some 40-50 miles away. This had never been done before (to my knowledge), although some of the local RC club members had thought of it. As time passed, the idea turned into a project. I set out to build and fly an RC model that would take off from Lorain, OH, on the southern coast of Lake Erie, and continue to fly nonstop to Point Pelee, Ontario, on the northern coast of Lake Erie about 40 miles away.
