This is my first attempt at creating a web site. My hobby(obsession?,since grade school,) has been the building and flying of Free Flight model airplanes. The pictures posted span a period of over 50 years, and trace my modeling roots to the present. The first pictures were taken in the late forties when the model club I belonged to was the "Queens Thermal Thumbers", later in the sixties it was the "Southern Connecticut Aeromodelers Association". At present I belong to the Brooklyn Skyscraper's,and a national organization called the NFFS.These models fly free with no controls, except for flying surfaces that are adjusted to enable the airplane to fly in a predetermined pattern. The only real control is a set time in which the flying surfaces are spoiled, and the flight can be terminated before the model flys away. They have been known to fly for very great distances if allowed to. Even so, if the wind is strong enough, there are many flyaways, and often the use of a Radio controlled tracking device is the only way to retrieve the errant model!
More low speed airfoils with, coordinates from the UIUC. Applied Aerodynamics Group.
Information on Airfoils.
More information on Airfoils.
Still more information on Airfoils.
These Man Powered Aircraft are built more like model planes than real ones.
Free Flight World Champs Index from 1951 to present
Cox Engine History.
Links to Model Suppliers and Free Flight Web-pages
This chart was compiled by Ron Felix, some 30+ years ago, still useful. Balsa Density Chart
Direct link to the AMA Contest Calender.
Direct link to the SAM Contest Calender.
Barron Field, information and flying rules (Wawayanda).
Weather information at various other Free Flight sites.
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