Our annual Speed contest got pushed into April to allow the FAI team to attend …They are in Perth, Austrailia at the 2016 FAI World Championships
Special thanks to John Moll for pulling this contest together and the entire Lafayette Esquadrille for getting the flying site cleaned up for the contest
Good luck guys and have a great time!
Click here for full results – Speed 2016 Results
2016 Speed FAI Team: Carl Dodge, Ivan & Alex Valishev , Bill Hughes, Chris Montagino
I know this is a model airplane website but when the St Louis blues and the Chicago Blackhawks are in the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs we had some fun with this….
St Louis pilots wanted the Blues to win Round 1 of the playoffs
We must of had a Blackhawk fan at the contest…by the way St Louis did win Round 1 and move on to Round 2
General pictures
Fox 35 Speed
Perky Speed
F2A Speed – FAI
Carl Dodge brought out his 1972, 1976 and 1982 FAI speed model that he flew at the World Championships
Other Speed events
The line in this photograph represents where the water would have been during the 2015 Christmas flood here in Valley Park, amazing to think that the entire flying site was 26 feet under water!
See you next year, in the mean time keep building that speed model for next year
Lafayette Esquadrille Control Line Club 