District XI
Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington
Phil Tallman
Vice President
AMADistrictXI@modelaircraft.org
28910 W. Hallett Rd., Medical Lake WA 99022; (509) 220-6513
ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENTS
David Agar, Battle Ground WA; (360) 721-1963; kamanhusky@aol.com
Rick Crow, Garrison MT; (406) 559-6662; rwcrowjr@gmail.com
Bryan Diffendaffer, Meridian ID; (208) 917-0548; bdiffendaffer@gmail.com
Michael Ingram, Wenatchee WA; (509) 699-3034; firercer@cs.com
Joe Miller, Dallas OR; (503) 798-7241; dragonriders54@yahoo.com
Chris Rankin, Bend OR; (541) 948-0211; crankin.aa@outlook.com
Robert Stephens, Anchorage AK; (907) 440-0478; rfstephens@hotmail.com
Jay Strickland, Central Point OR; (458) 226-0470; strickdog@q.com
Tom Strom, McCleary WA; (360) 791-7729; flyboy23e@aol.com
FF/CL EVENT SANCTION COORDINATOR
Mike Hazel, P.O. Box 505, Lyons OR 97358; zzclspeed@aol.com
RC EVENT SANCTION COORDINATOR
Michael Ingram, Wenatchee WA 98802; (509) 699-3034; firercer@cs.com
Hi all. Our flying season here in the Northwest should be getting underway. I know I’ll be out and flying this month.
We have the AMA Indoor Free Flight (FF) Nats in our neighborhood this June. The event will be in the Kibbie Dome in Moscow, Idaho, on June 19-23. I plan to attend at least one day.
This is a great event at a wonderful venue. Please plan to attend if you can. This year is the 100th anniversary of the first Nats. There should be some terrific events.
Remember that our AMA Northwest Jamboree is coming on July 14-16. Let’s make this the biggest one yet.
We’ll have a lot of RC and Control Line (CL) flying. I also expect a great raffle and some demonstration flying. Please attend.
Jess Walls informed me that the Rogue Eagles RC club in Medford, Oregon, has added a CL circle to their field. He sent me a great write-up that is unfortunately too large for my little article, but needless to say, this was hard work throughout the process.
If you are thinking of doing anything like this, contact me and I’ll share the entire document. It has a lot of information that could save a lot of time. Here is a picture of the finished project.
Jack Becker sent me some photos of a group flying FF models indoors at the Port Townsend Aero Museum in Port Townsend, Washington.
It looks like a good location and everyone is having a great time.
Jack has been involved with the museum for many years as a volunteer and board member. This new building extension (roughly 5,000 square feet) will house additional aircraft acquired from the North Cascades Vintage Aircraft Museum, which closed a few years ago.
As the expansion progressed, Jack couldn’t resist asking about the possibility of flying there because their other indoor flying site has been shut down since 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
It never hurts to ask. If you see a place that looks good for flying, ask politely. You never know what the owner will say.
That’s all for this month, I’ll have more as the season progresses.
Keep building and flying!
