FAVORITE FLYING SITE PHOTO OF THE DAY!

[Shultzie]

Here is one control line flying site that DICTATES a very very precise landing approach. Unlike our Tacoma Narrows flying site...this new one has no issues with wind shadow vortex. However all CLPA models will need to beef up their landing gear mounts...and use engine venturi intake filters at all times.
Although this site is now pretty much is fried toast...It would be great to see a photo of your favorite flying site.

[Serge_Krauss]

Don-

Here are the old Cleveland Circles near the end of one of the Hopkins Airport runways. I lived here twenty years unaware of the CL activity and of these circles, but the older members of the North Coast bunch remember them well, one of the nearer ones having been nicknamed the "Werwage Circle". Now I use this image each month in our newsletter as a memorial to a time when the city encouraged model aviation by furnishing this wonderful facility and through Charles Tracy's Press column, the civic leaders and business pitching in to promote the Junior Air races, and apparently much else. The second image, from an American Modeler cover, says it all about those times. I discovered CL people in Cleveland just after the nefarious mayors White (Cleveland) and Coyne (Brook Park) conspired to bulldoze the field in a trade that allowed a lengthened runway and planted a now empty office building right where these circles were. I never got to see them. Fortunately our three grass circles further south in Berea are pleasant places to meet and fly, but the speed guys who owned so many records have moved on.

SK

[Serge_Krauss]

Here's a Dave Evar photo of part of our nice grass circles at the fairgrounds - SK

[Allen Goff]

Serge;
My dad and I use to fly Rat and Goodyear back in the mid 60's and early 70's. I remember one year we sleep in the car and listen to the airport traffic all night. Then in the early 90's I flew stunt there and that was my first time to fly in front of Billy W. I think it was the next year they dozed the place over. It truly was a great model airport. Sorry for the modelers of Cleveland. ( progress ya know, BULL )

Blessings
Allen

[Dennis Adamisin]

Cleveland was a GREAT place to fly.  THe irony is that the land was kind of waste land being so close to the airport.  WHo in the heck would want to work in an office building under the take-off path?  Just plain dumb.

I remember flying stunt there, having a jet take-off overhead so you couldn't hear your engine.  You'd take it on faith - and line tension - that the engine was still running strong!  Kind of a prelude to flying electrics now...

[Claudio Chacon]

Hi,
Here is our flying site in Rafaela city (Santa Fé province) Argentina. It's located 7 minutes away from downtown.
You can see the F2B and F2C concrete circles, the R/C strip and the Club house.
A great place to fly all day long...

Cheers,
Claudio.

[Peter Ferguson]

Claudio, thank you for those wonderful photos I will be showing them to our local officials as examples of what can be done.

[Claudio Chacon]

You're welcome Peter.
Here you have some more pics of the F2B track under construction, done in February 2003 with "a little"  ;Dhelp from the local govt. I STILL can't believe it, trust me...

[Claudio Chacon]

An aerial view of the circle just finished...

[Scott Jenkins]

Paradise Field Ocklawaha Fl. and yes todays high is 87 time to break out the sunscreen

Scott