Norfoksouthern

I just noticed where you live. Well, i officially extend to you an invitation to come out in the spring and visit the Flying Wolverines in Algonac, MI. I think a 1.80 was the largest thing flown last year and about 95% of the planes in our club are .90 and smaller. I joined the Radio Control Club of Detroit last year because they have a dedicated control line field and the largest plane I personally saw out there was a 2meter pattern plan and a Great Planes Wagstaff extra. Most of the regular fliers there now fly .46 to .90 size planes. Course over on teh C field we fly under .91... but no one there is flying anything like that. A ST.51 is currently largest in the group, though Frank Carlisle has a tin Brodak .40 poewred stunter he is finishing.... if he can figure out a way to get it to the field. But he is part of the group that put the Musciano event in Kalamazoo, MI last year and just finished a 0.20 cl biplane with a group of other modlers around the country tru online get together. What I'm seeing is pople downsizing in our area. I used to fly all .90 size RC and am downsizing to .46 size planes and have some really nice aerobatic .15 size RC planes and a wonderful electric pattern plane that would be killer with a .25 motor. But in the winter I fly electric only. The Wolverines and River district eagles club fly rc float planes at the Harsens Island Ferry together and everything is .60 or smaller. The Eagles have some larger planes and htey almost lost their new field to them this year. So you are right there. I think their members are flying smaller stuff because of the noise issues. One thing al of us need to do is be sure we are using mufflers whether we fly CL or RC. If we don't we are cutting our own throats.

bob
harsens island, MI