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Skyscrapers Celebrate
70 Years of Free Flight
The Brooklyn Skyscrapers Model Airplane Club
was founded in 1936 in Brooklyn (NY) and has
been going strong ever since. To celebrate
its 70 years of FF activity the group has
planned a yearlong festival of events for
2006.
There will be a gala luncheon April 1, to which all present
and past club members are invited. Charter
members Sal Taibi and Leon Shulman have
already assured the club that they will
attend. All Skyscrapers who want to attend
this event should contact Dave Acton no
later than March 1, 2006. (His address is 89
N. Broadway, Apartment 102, White Plains NY
10603; Tel.: [914] 948-4234; E-mail:
davidPTacton @hotmail.com.)
Although the club's roots are in Brooklyn, the bulk of its
active members now reside throughout New
York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania,
and Virginia, and they do most of their
flying at Bryton Barron Memorial Field in
Wawayanda, New York. Assembled by Skyscraper
Andrew Barron, the nearly treeless site
consists of almost 800 acres of open
farmland, most of which is planted with sod.
Invitational FF meets scheduled for the site in 2006 are the
Skyscrapers International Challenge (May
27-28); the Eastern US FF Championships
(June 10-11), which was relocated because
its usual site in Maryland was unavailable;
the Skyscrapers 70th Anniversary Annual
(July 1-2); the Wilbur & Orville Contest
(August date to be announced); and the
Skyscrapers Fall Contest (October 21-22).
The 70th Anniversary Annual will feature a special one-design
event for the 1951 SpitBall 1/2A that I
designed as a Skyscraper member. (See
page 119 of Frank Zaic's 1951-52 Model
Aeronautic Year Book for more about this
model.) The event will be run according to
National Free Flight Society Nostalgia
rules.
In addition to the preceding contests, the Skyscrapers will
sponsor Record Trials at Barron Field May
11, July 8, August 12, September 9, and
October 14. Log onto the club's Web site—www.brooklynskyscrapers.org—for
further information.
MA
—Bob
Hatschek
District II
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