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Students with an Alpha trainer. |
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One of last season's classes (2005) |
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Dale! Another succesful student! |
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Sea Cruiser on a take off run. Has since been converted to electric. |
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Landings on water or land are the same, skim along the surface until the plane touches down! |
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Here's Joe with an Electric Telemaster! |
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Flight training is available with glo or electric planes. |
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It's a little cool in May, early in the morning. Paul is from NC and 78! |
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Bill learns that we always stand behind the plane for the first few takeoffs. An advantage of a private field! |
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Bill getting ready to put the NexStar up again! Trimming the NexStar at 1/4 - 1/3 throttle lets students fly & land without additonal trimming. |
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One of the school's new NexStar trainer's on final. |
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The local club members have really been good to the school. They've donated shelters and made work stations for us!! |
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Joe is a local student who will solo this week! |
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Boy! These NexStar's really make George smile! |
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George is proof that an R/C flight simulator works! He had never flown an R/C plane until this week and flew unassisted in four days! |
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Jim works with an OS LA .40 during the engine work shop. Because it's an airbleed carb, it tunes differently from other engines. |
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Jim with his Solo Certificate. He is helping to restore a B-29 and building scale model of the same plane! Happy Landings! |
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Chuck from Pennsylvania is real happy after his 3rd flight! |
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GrandPa Pat & Grandson Coleton, both landed on the first day, guess who did 7 consecutive touch & go's on day 4!!! Hint: Not the red hat! |
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Fred & Ann from Naperville. Both had a great time! |
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Hangar 9's Showtime 50! Great flying Aerobat... |
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Bob from CT. A really great student, soloed in 4 days! 4/07 |
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Bob is an electric fan! Trained with a Glo engine, now he can fly both! 4/07 |
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Joe is from illinois and 78 years old! |
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Joe and David was our May 6th, 2008
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David from Maryland, came for a "refresher"! |
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Bob from Connecticut was able to solo on his third day!! |
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Here's Blaine from Missouri soloed his 2nd day! Had a total of flying time of 3 minutes before starting class. |
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Shayna & Billy from Tennesse! Bill soloed on Day 3 & Shayna on Day 5! |
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