Originally Posted by
Hydro Junkie
Tell me about it. IIRC, the Eagles lost their field out along 530, the club just east of Everett folded, as did the one not too far from Marysville-Pilchuck High School. The only ones I know that are still around are the two in the Monroe area. Granted, it's not a long drive to either one but, when I consider that I used to be able to almost walk to the one by the high school, it does kind of suck
The good news is the Eagles field is open again.
The bad news is how close the field is to hwy 530 and to homes...and how the pilots have to look due south into the sun.
At the field next to the Marysville HS the club was sued a couple times after an Old guy flew his 60 sized pattern plane into a roof, another plane crashing into the main hwy during rush hour [67th ave] and all the close encounters planes had while the farmers were out working the fields.
Corn Farmer Neff had a Field Hand shoot a guys plane out of the sky that had badly overflown the boundary line.
Years earlier a pedestrian was almost killed by a 100 mph combat plane [FOX .36 Combat Special] down at Sand Point Park ...when one of the planes was accidentally cut loose during a match....at a AMA sanctioned event. Back in those days the flyers didn't even wear a wrist strap and automatic fuel shutoffs were still 20 years away from being made mandatory by the AMA.
I've seen dozens of fly aways over the years..the most famous might be the time a plane plowed through the high voltage powerlines and knocked the power out to an entire town.