Control Line activity in St Louis - Lafayette Esquadrille CL club is busy

[Fred Cronenwett]

Hello everyone - If you are close to the St Louis MO area and fly CL models the Lafayette Esquadrille CL club is active and we fly at Buder Park (NE of I-44 and Hwy 141). this flying site has been the CL flying site since 1960.

We host fun fly's, stunt, scale and speed contests. Buder Park has two paved circles, a carrier deck and a speed circle with a fence. The carrier deck circle allows you to fly over grass but takeoff from the concrete carrier deck surface.

On the south side of the paved circles is a large grass area where we use to fly combat.

We have carrier bags and can set up the carrier deck if needed.



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Our contest season is done for the year but we try to fly on Jan 1st and have our first contest on the last sunday in February when it's nice and warm (stunt, fox 35 and Perky speed).

Fred Cronenwett

[Steve Lotz]

Nice & warm in Feb?

[Dan McEntee]

Nice & warm in Feb?

  Hi Steve;
    Sometimes, actually, it is! We never know what the end of February will bring. We have been snowed out of the contest and the Parks Department closed the park. No hills there for sledding but there was about 10 inches of snow! To the other extreme, we have flown in bright sunshine and warm enough for T-shirts. And everything in between. More often than not we get the contest in one way or the other. Just a way to get out after a long winter and get rid of some cabin fever. In St. Louis, temps are beginning to rise about that time and it's usually in the 40s.
  Type at you later,
   Dan McEntee

[Fred Cronenwett]

Yes, sometimes it is cold, but we still fly. We might be wearing gloves, hats, jackets or maybe long underwear but still gotta fly!

When it's 60 degrees in St louis that is T-shirt weather, if you are use to Florida temperatures you might be wearing a jacket it's all what you get use to.

Fred

[john e. holliday]

I remember the first February meet Emmy and I attended.  We left KC early and when we got to Columbia the temp gauge showed out side temp at 29F degrees.  By the time we got to Buder it was up in the 40's .  We had a blast and by the time we hit the road for home it was back in the low 30's.   Yes the weather in February can be unpredictable in any part of this great land of ours.   Yes the trip was worth it as we had fun. .