About Free Flight
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WHAT is FREE FLIGHT? FREE
FLIGHT is the magic of model airplanes flying
free, sometimes climbing as high as the clouds or just circling silently
indoors under a Motivated beginners
soon pursue the quest for model building skills, with their minds filled
with visions of their aircraft sailing far and away overhead. |
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Long-time devotees to model aviation will confirm that free flight presents unlimited constructive challenges for youths and adults. Participants acquire and apply a knowledge base of model building materials, tools, construction methods and engineering concepts, and in the process learn to incorporate good aerodynamic principles in their aircraft. In return, the sport of free flight offers many personal rewards including lessons well learned, knowledge and judgement gained, lasting friendships made, and opportunities taken to compete with model aircraft that fly free of earthly bonds. The Officers and Membership of the National Free Flight Society invite you to join the movement and FLY FREE ! |
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gymnasium ceiling. For experts and new modelers alike, such flights
give rise to feelings of wonder and satisfaction. For many fliers involvement
in the sport of free flight begins after
first watching a model airplane fly beyond expectations. But such viewers
should be made aware of the possible unanticipated outcome of their
involvement. What may start as just curiosity about model aircraft
can develop into a rewarding life-long interest. Unsuspecting newcomers
to the sport frequently become strongly committed to model aviation.
With
good construction methods and flight adjustment techniques reasonably
mastered, involvement in organized free flight
competitions becomes the usual next step. Once the “competition
bug” gains firm hold, the process of building, flying and competing
in contests becomes a way of life.