I visited my in-laws this week in Ridgecrest, CA, and I wanted to go flying while I was out there. So I brought my Fly Baby, found their local club’s website and talked to their President about flying while I was there. He told me The Desert Valley Vultures fly […]

Flying in Ridgecrest, CA



Dec 10th marked our last Scale Squadron Meeting of 2012. Let me start with some cool stats. We just about maxed out or meeting room with almost 60 people in attendance. About 16 of those people were wives/girlfriends of our members. One was our youngest attendee, Joseph Parks the 3rd, the […]

December Christmas Party


Each Month in our Newsletter, our editor pics a plane, puts a pic of it in the newsletter, and we guess what it is at that month’s meeting This month’s plane is unusual, cool, and some of our members got it right! And drumroll……………. Here’s the info about this month’s plane! […]

December Newsletter Plane of the Month


The bowling looked easy but it caused huge damage and a lot of entertainment value
Toys for Tots at PVMAC was a huge success today! From a swap meet that started at 5am (2 hours early!) to spectacular challenges in the fun-fly competition, it was a great event for a great cause. PVMAC along with their sponsors like Horizon collected more toys than ever before! […]

PVMAC Toys for Tots




One video-two planes. An ASM Giant Scale Cessna 182 and a smaller Pilatus PC-9. Both are electric. The PC-9 flight was short due to a broken aileron linkage right after take-off. Lucky to get this one back in one piece!

Paul Lee flying at Prado Airpark