S.M.A.L.L. Days

Aero Allen's new membership has spurred me to dig through the musty archives for some long-forgotten photo moments of our adventures at the S.M.A.L.L. Fly-Ins.  Many were done with my light-leaking 35mm film camera, along with some photos Allen and a fellow named Robert Higgins mailed me.

Figure I'll leave the "Official Archive Cardboard Box"" here by the scanner and post the better photos as I find them....treating it as an On The Ramp Right Now thread with updates along the way.

The S.M.A.L.L. Fly-In (Small Model Airplane Lovers League) was (is?) held in Little Rock, Arkansas (along with some other locations), and I made the pilgrimage there for several years in a row, meeting Joe Wagner and his son, Andy Clancy, Crystal King, and several other Stars.

I've got some video of Crystal slicing the air with a combat plane, AND also flying a member's Veco Chief...I'll try to find that footage.

The first couple of S.M.A.L.L. Fly-In's I attended were held at a "Plantation" east of Little Rock, then they were moved to Maumelle, Arkansas just to the west of the city.

This is my best shot at assembling a panoramic photo from the first fly-in I attended:



Andy Clancy and his Hive of Bees.  He's holding his then-new electrified "Stagger Bee".



Aero Allen making laps at the Muamelle Fly-In:



Allen and I get our photo snapped by my camera-packing Lazy Bee:



The city-supported Model Airplane Park at Maumelle:



EARLY morning at Maumelle!  My new cargo trailer is graced by Joe Wagner's free flight planes.  I had a ton of room to spare, and storing the planes in my trailer saved Joe and his son from having to disassemble their planes.