On June 13, I dropped in for a couple of hours at the Jet fly-in run by Ron Cherry at our field. The sky was overcast "June Gloom", and there was a competing event near Bakersfield, but still, I thought that the turnout was pretty good. I guess that there were about 30 airplanes, ranging from pure turbojets to glow engine powered ducted fan jets and prop driven jet look-alikes. Pretty good food service was provided by a small "roach-trailer"

Many electric ARFs were in evidence. In the RC magazines, one sees many of these scale-looking foam models, some with very small wings, which makes one wonder if those things really fly. Well, I can testify that they really do fly, and quite well at that. An electric SR-71 flew impressively, as did a big Airbus jetliner. Tony Kameen brought a twin fan F-15 that was so beautiful that I immediately assumed that he had built it. However, this fine scale builder kind of shame-facedly admitted that he had joined those lazy modelers that buy and fly ARFs. That is another thing that I admire about Tony – he flies his scale models himself – not like some others I could mention that need a team pilot. (Who, me?)

Dale Yaney brought two big glow-powered delta wing ducted fan models. His Kfir features innovative controllable canards, which not only control pitch in the normal way, but also pop up vertically for air braking on landing. Jim Bronowski brought a prop driven look-alike.  The big pure jets sounded and smelled like the real thing.  See some snapshots below.