While flying my Taylorcraft at the Fairview Business
Park in Fairview, Pennsylvania, a group of guys drove up a few hundred feet away
and unloaded an electric B-17 R/C model. It turned out to be some members of the
Thermal
G R/C Club that meets here in Erie, PA. The club president, Cliff Bendig, walked
over and introduced himself, and said that club treasurer Gary Niemi was the owner
and pilot of the B-17. I drove over to where they were just in time to get this
video of the landing. Very cool!
Electric R/C B-17 Flying t Fairfield Business Park, Fairfield, PA
Posted April 5, 2012
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Kirt Blattenberger
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of model building activity. This site has been created to help me chronicle my journey
through a lifelong involvement in model aviation, which
all began in Mayo, MD
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