This year was the first Summer Fest sponsored by the Derby Community Coalition. The Coalition's exists to help teenagers and pre-Teens stay away from drugs and alcohol. They try to do this by helping young people realize all of the healthy alternatives to drug usage.
The Summer Fest had representatives at High Park from all of the youth sports programs. In addition they sponsored an ice cream social and a movie after dark.
The DRCC set up a booth to showcase the Sport/Hobby of R/C flying. We had a number of aircraft on static display. A computer was set up on a picnic table with a RealFlight Simulator to give people some stick time without the danger of damaging an airplane. We had open flying for any of our member plus a trainer with the radio system hooked to a Buddy Box for anyone who had never flown R/C before. The pictures below show a little bit of what went on.
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We took over one of the permanent picnic shelters as our base of operations
Most of the aircraft were on static display to show people the variety of airframes available
Larry Neff from Timbercreek Hobbies brought this big seaplane for everyone to see
Darwin Hawkins gets his Senior Telemaster ready to fly
Bill Brown brought this small, electric ducted fan model. It is sitting on a custom made catapault that is used to launch it
The Real Flight simulator was popular even with the experienced pilots
Darwin watches as his Telemaster was flown by Ryan Jones. The group behind them were waiting their turns
The Senior Telemaster does a Fly By
Club member Calvin Crittenden gets some flight instruction while Ken Chadwick looks on
