The Fort Worth Thunderbirds are having to give up their field in a US Army Corps of Engineers park area at Benbrook Lake, due to a safety issue about local overflights of a lake perimeter road, especially with giant scale models, turbine models and IMAC large aerobatic models. Plus, the field has a million dollar panoramic view of the lake that the park REALLY wants to exploit for more picnic areas, camping areas and other park go-ers amenities.

The good news is that the Corps of Engineers is moving us to another part of the park later this year and has more or less recreated our field (without the million dollar lake view) in a location that will be safer, with no models overflying any roads of populated park areas.

Still a sad move, as we had been there for 40 years.

Our club varies between 150 and 200 members.