Lawrence Harville
AMA District-8 Vice President
Permian Basin Model Aircraft Club
Picture taken by Parker Rathbun. Pilot is Garret Rathbun This was our Indoor event held at the CAF hanger held in Midland, TX Feb 5-7 Wayne Wagner Permian Basin Model Aircraft Club
TAKE OFF AND GROW GRANT TAG
Get your club to apply TAG GRANTS are easily avaliable http://www.amaflightschool.org/programs/take-off-and-grow
Spring Float Fly
River City Radio Control Club Go have some Float fly fun San Antonio April 16-18 2021. for the RIVER CITY SPRING FLOAT FLY. lots of fun.
Ed Couch Texas Scale Championships 2021
the ED COUCH Texas Scale Championships 2021 If possible print and post at your flying site--and send to your club newsletter September 11-12, 2021, Sponsored by the Greater Southwest Aeromodelers, Hurst, Texas. The ED COUCH TEXAS SCALE CHAMPIONSHIPS. Some of the...
Max Blose AMA HALL OF FAME 2020
In September we Honored Max Blose who was selected into the AMA Hall of Fame. He joins a VERY SELECT group of 342 HOF members only 17 are from District VIII. Max started flying in 1945, wrote several Magazine articles, designed and kitted many types of planes. A...
Pete Darter Fly In & Swap Meet
Pete Darter Fly In & Swap Meet Saturday November 7, 9:00 am ~ 3:00
IMAC Copan 2020
1st Annual Bill Thomas Memorial IMAC Challenge This past weekend I had the privilege to fly at Copan, Ok at the first Annual Bill Thomas Memorial IMAC. Bill Thomas started flying in the early 50's and was very big in Pattern in the 80's. He was successful in winning...
District 8 Sparkplug of the month July 2020
Sparkplug of the Month of July is, STEVE NICHOLSON from River City Radio Control, San Antonio, TEXAS. Steve has been a member of the Ozark Flyers RC in Fayetteville, Ark., the Greater Southwest Aero Modelers in...
AVP/Contest Coordinator Amanda Darling Visit
Ozark Flyers Club in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Rodney Darling with daughter AVP Amanda Darlin and District VIII Contest Coordinator with Doug Wilkerson
Guymon Fun Fly
Sorry for the late post... Technical issues!! A wrong turn in the middle of the Oklahoma Panhandle brought some history to the Guymon Fun Fly in September. A cold front and high winds on Sunday did not keep 12 pilots from showing up ready to tear up the skies at...
Hight Desert Jet Fly In.
Jets. I attended ARCC's Hight desert Jet Fly In here in Albuquerque. They had 24 pilots and lots of fun. Weather was not so well on Thursday and Friday. Saturday was perfect. There was lots of spectators watching the jets. At noon there was a walk of planes. Phill...
ARCC Un-swap meet
Un-swap meet? What is it? ARCC had a Un-swap meet last Saturday. Les Beason came up with this idea. The stuff you have left after a swap meet just takes up space in your work shop. An un-swap meet was designed to get rid of that stuff. Here is how it works. Fill up a...