Our Club's Field is Cal Poly's Aerospace department Experimental Flight Range. We see some interesting activities. One of the biggest events of the year is Aero 101 day. The students design and build Styrofoam gliders.One of our club guys flys each glider, or attempts to. They are HiStart launched and they carry a payload of penny rolls. Flight score is time, times Penny count. They teams are given up to three flights, if the planes last that long and the best time for the team is logged.The Aerospace department has about a dozen 4 channel radio sets and the receivers and servos are moved plane to plane during the day. We see quite a few unique designs.A lotdon't fly, but every now and then a real surprises poops up.

Each team has to do a presentation on their flight, what went wrong and what was needed to fix it. The 2009 class had thirty teams each with four members. Keeping the flight line safe was kind of like herding cats.

With a limited budget like yours, something like this would be great fun for the kids and you could have the seeds for a yearly event.

The photos are just a sample of the days activities. The old guys are our club president and contest director.

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