The Fort Bend Radio Control Club Hosts Model Air Show

ROSENBERG TX — The Fort Bend Radio Control Club will host its 2nd Annual Open Fly-in and Model Air Show on Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017 in Rosenberg.

The public is invited to this event which highlights a wide variety of radio-controlled model aircraft. The field opens at 8 a.m.

Flying starts at 8:30 a.m. and continues until 3 p.m. with a 2-hour break between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. for the Air Show, and a one-hour break from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. for raffle drawings.

The Club has a 200-foot long covered pavilion to keep guests out of the sun for their viewing comfort.

Club Radio Control Instructors will hold “Buddy Box RC Flying Sessions” where student pilots can pilot a radio control trainer aircraft.

The field is also open to all model aircraft and drones with AMA Licensed Pilots for Open Flying, both before and after the 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. mid-day events.

Mid-day events include amazing Scale War Bird Fly-By’s by Bayou Bend Radio Control Club, Aerobatic Scale Aircraft Demonstration Flights, Jet Turbine Flights and a demonstration of Aerobatic Helicopter flying.

Great Schultz BBQ sandwiches will be available starting 11 a.m.

After lunch, raffle drawings will be conducted for a new Spektrum DX8 model aircraft radio and receiver, two Ready-to-Fly RC airplanes and two Ready-to-Fly RC drones.

As a bonus attraction, Katy Cruizers Car Club will have on display over 20 collector cars at the north end of the field.

This event and car display will be held at the Fort Bend R/C Club’s flying field, which is located on the Fort Bend County Recycle Center grounds off of Spur 529, approximately one and a quarter miles south of the Avenue I and Spur 529 intersections in Rosenberg.

Watch for direction signs to the Air Show on Spur 529. For further directions and information, please visit the Fort Bend R/C Club website at www.fortbendrc.com.

Student Air Force R.O.T.C. cadets will be collecting donations for the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital at the event entrance.

Drawing (raffle) and lunch tickets will be available for purchase at 9 a.m.

“We have had great community support in years past and we are looking forward to another exciting air show this year,” said R/C Club member Bob Nelson. “We sent St Jude a $1,000 check for the 2016 event and are determined to exceed that this year. Fort Bend Radio Control Club is an AMA Gold Leader Club and has a long history of event contributions to Muscular Dystrophy and most recently, St Jude.”

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