Slow doen just a little mesaflyer. Because you posted this in the beginners forum I worry that you are a just minted flyer, Nothing wrong with that but there is a lot to do.

A critical point here is what type of airplanes are you flying. Slow park flyers, small True 3D airplanes piloted by an experianced pilots and helicopters anything that can be kept in a tiny area may get away with no lights at all however any glow say a forty trainer (which by the way makes and ideal first night flyer) flown with no lights moonlight or not will be wasted on the first flight.

For a glow trainer a lighting system is imperitive. The lights I use are 1157 tailight bulbs. With a 3000 Nimh seven cell battery for about thirty minutes of very bright lights. Led's are limited directionally and are a bigger challange to do right. Many folks will use taped on chemical sticks, But these are rather dim and I,ve seen many get into trouble with them at night flys over the years.

I would highly reccomend you get together with an experianced night flyer before you go running off to the dry lake there are many pitfalls. It not hard to do but not done right you will loose an airplane. Night flight is an extremly euphoric experiance, get together with someone with experiance.

The yellow airplane is a kit bashed Sig Kaydet Senior. The dirty black trainer on floats is a 15 year old Midwest Aerostar That on has just over forty night flights on it both on water and land.