Welcome to the Pensacola Free Flight Team Website
Charter #203
FAC Squadron #46
SAM 17
The Pensacola Free Flight Team membership is made up of folks with very diverse interests in terms of the type of freeflight activity they prefer, and all are welcome. Some members’ primary interest is gas, some electric, some rubber, some scale and some strictly gliders. Radio control activity is NOT available at our flying site. We are especially interested in sharing our sport with anyone who is either new to the game or who, like many of us, have taken a few years out of the game to make a living and raise a family. We have active members who live as far away as New Orleans and yet are active in the business of the club. There are dozens of associate members who frequently travel as far as 300 miles to fly at our outstanding flying site. Over 160 modelers in 5 countries subscribe to our newsletter, which, while briefly discussing local club activities, attempts to act more as a journal for the purpose of sharing ideas for building and flying free flight models. We are very fortunate to have weekly access to one of the finest flying fields you can imagine — a Navy helicopter field with a mile square of soft, mowed grass.
The Pensacola Free Flight Team was formally established as a non-profit corporation in 1994. It is the outgrowth of a group of free flight modelers who had been flying together since the 1930s. In the early 1940s, the informal leadership of the group was assumed by the late Tom McLaughlan, whose extreme generosity of time and money was and continues to be a major factor in free-flight modeling, not only locally but nationally as well. The name “Pensacola Free Flight Team” was developed as a consequence of Tom’s leadership of a team of free-flight modelers entering FAI competitions nationwide. Upon Tom’s passing, Bob Junk assumed the leadership role, which he carried until 2003. We’ve awarded Bob with the title of “Past President Emeritus.” Our newsletter, the Thermalier, was formally started in 1998 by the late Jack Bolton. Upon Jack’s passing, the task was assumed by George White.
If you have any questions, or recommendations, contact George White — white76@cox.net
The Pensacola Free Flight Team was formally established as a non-profit corporation in 1994. It is the outgrowth of a group of free flight modelers who had been flying together since the 1930s. In the early 1940s, the informal leadership of the group was assumed by the late Tom McLaughlan, whose extreme generosity of time and money was and continues to be a major factor in free-flight modeling, not only locally but nationally as well. The name “Pensacola Free Flight Team” was developed as a consequence of Tom’s leadership of a team of free-flight modelers entering FAI competitions nationwide. Upon Tom’s passing, Bob Junk assumed the leadership role, which he carried until 2003. We’ve awarded Bob with the title of “Past President Emeritus.” Our newsletter, the Thermalier, was formally started in 1998 by the late Jack Bolton. Upon Jack’s passing, the task was assumed by George White.
If you have any questions, or recommendations, contact George White — white76@cox.net