Ringmaster Fly-A-Thon

Ringmaster fly-a-thon event for control-line airplanes.

2024 Ring Master Fly-A-Thon

Start Date & Time

Come join us this weekend, October 5th and 6th for the Annual World Wide Ringmaster Fly-A-Thon.  

This is a control-line plane flying event and is held in the Helicopter/Control Line area in the south-west area of the Stetson Flyers field. RC flying off the main runway won’t be affected. If there are no RC flyers using the main runway, the control-line organizers may set up a second circle on the main runway, but it will be removed at a moment's notice when RC flyers arrive

  • Start times
    • Electric Ringmasters start at Dawn. 
    • Glow Ringmasters start at 0900h. 
  • Basic Ringmaster trainers and instruction are available to try. No control line experience is needed!  Anyone wanting to give control-line flying a try, is welcome. Just approach Brian Pepin or Peter Wakefield and let them know. 
  • Lots of fun for all ages! 

Also, come see the two Ringmasters dueling it out in the circle. Charlie and Mark, are you up for a re-match? We haven't seen this type of action since 2021! We have the pit crews ready to assist.

Events Status
Completed

2022 Ringmaster Fly-A-Thon

Event Date

October 1-2, 2022: The 15th Annual Worldwide Ringmaster Fly-A-Thon is over and what a blast! The final numbers are in and as of  15 Nations worldwide submitted a total of 10,481 flights logged by 605 pilots. A whopping 2,154 flights more than last year's record setting 8,327 flights logged by 553 pilots!

For the Stetson Flyers Club it was the 4th consecutive year participating in this event.
Mother Nature graced us with a good weather weekend. 
Stetson Flyers Club’s previous Fly-A-Thon records were surpassed: 15(14) pilots flying 12(5) variants of the "Ringmaster" logged a total of 241(66) flights over the course of the two days. Interest in control line (C/L) is definitely on the upswing. Piloting the model aircraft were new, very lapsed (i.e. decades), budding and veteran C/L pilots.

FLYING FIELD ADDRESS

5800 Frontier Road, 
Vars, ON, Canada
 

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MAILING ADDRESS:

Stetson Flyers Model Airplane Club 
PO Box 91542 RPO Mer Bleu 
Orleans, ON, K1W 0A6 
613-518-4463
contact@stetsonflyers.com