Home page for the Lafayette Esquadrille Control Line club based in St Louis, MO

Santa was in Town!

 

St Louis County Parks information

We are an AMA Chartered Club #702

Meramec River Level

We Fly Control Line Stunt, Scale, Balloon Bust, Fox 35 speed, Carrier, Speed and Perky Speed CL models

click here for the engine run-up stand plans  –  RUN-UP-STAND-NORMAL

Club Meetings have been moved to O’fallon MO due daylight savings time

2024 Meetings – Jan 11     Feb 8     March 14    April 11     May 9    June 13       

We fly at Buder Park and have club meetings each month

Gus Vogele’s Bi-slob 

Gus Vogele with 1/2a racers

This picture was taken after the square pad was re-surfaced

2024 Buder Park passes will be issued by St Louis County – Website link TBD

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2024 Contest / Event Schedule

Feb 25 – ICE-O-LATED CL Stunt & Speed

May 18-19 – Midwest CL Speed

June 1 – CL Fun Fly

Sept 21-22 – Broken Arrow CL Stunt & Scale

Sept 26-27 – USA F2A World Cup (CL Speed)

Sept 28-29 – Canada F2A World Cup (CL Speed)

Oct 5-6 – Ringmaster Fly-A-Thon (any Ringmaster can be flown)

Oct 27 – Turkey Shoot (one .35 powered model flown in three events)

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Click here of for the Fox 35 Stunt Speed Rules – fox-35-rules-feb-2017

Dec 2015 – Buder Park Flood pictures

Read how Buder Park was created in 1960 – buder-park-american-modeler-sept-1961

New to the St Louis area? – Follow this link to find stores and roads around the Buder Park area

Buder Park – Maps and Directions Rev B

 

these pictures are from Lou Matustik’s collection and show the Fort and the area that became the square pad

Gus Vogele

Charlie Reeves is the person on the right side of this picture

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