Maynard must be an honary member of half a dozen clubs He's also a member of my club. Several of the guys working on the project are also members of my club, so we had a lot of updates on the club mailing list as it was going on.

Part of the big deal about this particular crossing was that it was the first airpane to do it within the FAI's definition of a "model airplane", which sets the weight limit and such, so once the paperwork goest though, it will set a world record for distance for "model airplanes".