Where Are We Today
Park Place RV Resort
Quartzsite Arizona
Yes, it’s been a while since I made an appearance on
my blog, but since I know that you all follow Pat at Here, there is not a lot for
me to tell you. However, today I thought I would say a few words about the “Air
Show” that our RC club had a couple of weeks ago.
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| Quartzsite Desert Flyers Field |
The RC club is the Quartzsite Desert Flyers whose
field is located in part of the town park at the north east corner of the town.
One of the founding members, Jim Colwell, who the field is named after,
approached the town and ask for land to have a field at, as there are a number
of winter visitors that fly RC. The town
set aside an area on the outside edge of the park with parking, a shelter and 600-foot
paved runway for the club. It should also be noted that there is another
section in the park set up for RC cars. The weekend of Feb. 4th, 5th and 6th
were the dates set for this event, the Friday night for night flying, the
Saturday for the fun fly and the Sunday for a swap meet. All events were
attended by our club and surrounding clubs. |
Opening Ceremony
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| Registration |
The Friday night flying was well attended by
spectators but we could have used more flyers, something to work on for next
year. The Saturday was well attended with spectators also, approximately 200
people came to watch, with 20 registered pilots and multiple airplanes. Sundays
swap meet was well attended with many items for sale. The locale VFW, supplied
food to spectators and flyers.  |
| Looking to the left of center field. |
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| Looking to the right of center field |
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| The yellow one is a jet turbine aircraft, the only one at the show. |
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| One of our female members. |
All in all, it was a great weekend, yours truly ended
up being the announcer and also made a purchase at the swap meet. Looking forward
to next winters Quartzsite Desert Flyers Air Show.
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| Swap Meet wares |
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| Lots of items for sale . |
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| My Swap Meet Purchase "Calmato" |
Thanks for taking the time to stop by and check in.
Until the next time, take care and enjoy life.
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Good Night
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Oh my! You did make a nice purchase. 😊 It is really nice of Quartzsite to provide for the interests of the community like that. Enjoy.
ReplyDeleteI am very pleased with my purchased. For a small desert town, Quartzsite does and has a lot for it's year round residents and winter visitors.
DeleteWow ... that's a beauty!! It sure looks like a lot of fun and is something you just don't see every day.
ReplyDeleteA beauty for sure, that's one of the reasons that I bought it. Fun for sure, if you didn't know it was here, you would not see it.
DeleteI walked up, as you know, and thought it was neat that they had allowances for'rookies' to fly a plane to see if they'd like to get into the hobby. I was too chicken. Nice post and I'm glad you found another fun plane to fly.
ReplyDeleteThanks sweetie, another time you may want to try and fly.
DeleteWe've been to the air show a few times and found it fascinating. I know a couple of our friends had to be there as well!
ReplyDeleteAlways fun to watch, glad you enjoyed it. i am looking forward to next years.
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