Buffalo/Tonawanda/Lancaster, NY

[Robert Zambelli]

Anybody on this forum remember CL flying in the above mentioned areas?

It's where I learned to fly in the 50s.

It was indeed, quite a haven for CL flying.

Names like Harold DeBolt, Dave Gierke, Jim Kostecky, Warren Geurr, and many more.
There were around TEN hobby shops in the area.

Our club, the Tonawanda Hornets, had our own flying field at the corner of Colvin Blvd and Brighton Roads, called, at the time, Conway Field. Now it's Walter Kenney Field.

Now, through progress, I'm pretty sure it's all soccer fields.

This link might work - Zoom on the Colvin/Brighton intersection.

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.9925588,-78.854239,853m/data=!3m1!1e3

There is a Navy F9F on display. I was there when they brought it in, late 50s as I recall.

[EddyR]

     Bob    I lived in Binghamton but when I worked for Dictaphone Corp in the 1960" my district office was in Tonawanda.
 Later I spent a lot of time in Rochester for another company.  I new the first three on your list and went to contest on weekend when i was in the area.
 There were many contest in Rochester and Ithaca that I went to.
 I flew FF a lot and there were a lot of contest in western NY.
Ed

[Robert Zambelli]

There was an unbelievable amount of CL flying when I lived in upstate New York - I lived in Tonawanda for four years, Syracuse for two, and Rochester for 25.
We had a club in Rochester called the RAMS-Circle Burners (RAMS = Rochester Aero Modelling Society). There was a well known combat flyer in Rochester named Ray Miller. He had a company that produced combat kits: RaMi Engineering.
We had our own field on Empire Boulevard.
SADLY, I'm not aware of any CL flying in upstate NY.

Bob Z.