BROOKINGS AEROMATES

Radio Controlled Model Airplane Club

AMA Club # 1037

Welcome To the Premier East Central South Dakota R/C Club!

44^o21'18" North 96^o43'77" West

2009 Aeromates Fun Fly Schedule

Our next fun fly is scheduled for :

Sunday August 23^rd

Come join us for some high flying fun!!

Saturday May 30^th and Sunday May 31^st

^{Big Bird Fun Fly}

^{Update and
pictures!!}

^{What a crazy couple
of days....}

^{Saturday started early (8:30
am) with coffee, donuts and pilot registration. Weather was clear, sunny
with a north northeast wind at about 10 m/hr. Good day for meeting old
friends, making new friends and lots of flying.}

^{Participants came from as far
away as Sioux City IA, Rushmore MN, and Aberdeen SD. We had flyers from
Marshal MN, Sioux Falls SD, Beresford SD, Watertown SD, and all points in
between. We were sad that some of our old friends were not able to make it,
maybe next time.}

^{Our chef Greg did an excellent
job as usual with hamburgers and all the fixings for lunch and pork loin for
dinner. (yum yum) Everyone congratulated Greg for a job well done (most of
our guests, including yours truly went back for seconds)}

^{We had 18 registered pilots
with lots of airplanes, from J3 cubs to the vulnerable Super Stearman, to
the Extras, and Yaks a beautiful Eurocoupe, to a couple of JU87 Stukas
with their sirens going, and a big and beautiful L5, a nice GB and a couple
of Sig Rascals, just to mention a few. One of our friends had a video camera
on one of the planes, and a few of us got to watch live video of his
flights, what a treat.}

^{Our friends from Watertown
brought down their winch so we set up a second flight line for them. The
glass ships were up at no time finding thermals, showing the rest of us how
it is really done. We logged some real long flights. Way to go silent
flyers. Later in the day, we had a bunch of electrics and discus launched
gliders, they had a blast.}

^{Day one activities ended at
about 9:00 PM, with a couple of our friends (with the campers) staying the
night at the field.}

^{Day two started windy, got
windier and stayed windy. We had a few more of our friends joining us for
Sunday but flying was rather limited. A couple of brave souls put airplanes
together, one even tuned the engines of his P-38, but with 25 mile / hr
winds we were grounded.}

^{We said good bye to all of our
friends, cleaned up and locked the gate at about 3:00 PM. Over all it was a
very successful event. Lots of people, lots of flying and good times.}

^{Here are a few
pictures, snapped by our photographer, ZLK. (Thanks Zoe!)}