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| These award winners are the students with best scores. But all of the students gain a great deal of knowledge each year. Jokingly I was told that my classes had enrollment of over sixty per class for next year. I was not laughing. I may need to franchise to fulfill the demand. Ronnie Espolt |
This blog post will be short and quote from comments on the Facebook group that Ronnie Espolt started the Youth and Education, Model Aviation Group. Ronnie works harder than anyone I know of in teaching model aviation to kids through classes at schools and to different groups. Quoting in a recent email from Ronnie gives an idea just how busy he is: “I have just a few things to work on now. County Fair in two weeks, buddy box this Saturday another for Millionaire Minds Kids Club in June. National Night Out, National Model Aviation Day, Youth day at Planes of Fame Museum.” Ronnie Espolt
Ronnie and I communicate almost daily and we have both been working with the ideas in building rubber powered model planes primarily out of foam plates but using a balsa stick for the fuselage. This past year the Academy of Model Aeronautics made available a really slick looking plane of this type with a rubber winder included for a great price known as the “Alpha”. One of the Alpha models had a 3 minute flight at the contest. Rick Pearson a member of the Victor Valley RC Flyers took many of the pictures.
Quotes from Youth and Education, Model Aviation Group
“I tried an idea that worked well. My traditional contest has been an 18" Hand Chuck and a Foam Plate Rubber Powered Plane. All the students from the school come with families a long with my youth club. So each year we have had kids at the field with no planes to enter. These kids have always felt left out. This year I added the AMA Alpha Class and sold the kits with winder. We sold 19 for the contest at the event. The remaining Alpha planes were used as prizes for contestants. This kicked our entry count to over fifty. I have 38 new youth AMA memberships to send into headquarters.” Ronnie
Jim N. “Ronnie, what a fantastic thing you do all just because you can and you have a tremendous heart for the future. These kids would most likely not been exposed to model airplanes let alone all the little things that come along with it; science, math, and history. YES, history. Talking to kids about the different roles different planes filled both in peace and at war. There are so many kids out there with no solid role model. Ronnie you deserve a huge thank you from everyone who cares about our youth. The best part is; Ronnie knows nothing of this. He's just a great guy and thought, hey, cool. I have kids that like to play with the same things as I do.”
Related Links
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1203658726314035/ Victor Valley Facebook Page
https://www.facebook.com/groups/196015354190463/ "Youth and Education, Model Aviation Group"
http://www.modelaircraft.org/shopama/product.aspx?id=F1BDE4073CCE4464B797DB89ACC24A02&d= Purchase the AMA Alpha
http://www.amaflightschool.org/alpha AMA Alpha & Postal Contest
https://www.modelaircraft.org/joinnew.aspx?s=google Join Academy of Model Aeronautics
https://freeflight.org/ National Free Flight Society - I recommend highly
https://www.facebook.com/groups/425811714235246/ Simple Foam Free Flight Airplane
https://ideas-inspire.com/fantastic-foam-flyer/ Detailed instructions on building rubber powered foam plate model airplane on my website.
https://www.guidestar.org/profile/20-4418118 About Millionaire Mind Kids (MMK)
Wonder, looks like airfoiled wings, how is it done ???
ReplyDeleteMost of the planes look like my "fake alpha"
wombat
wombat I think they did the bend a crease in the foam wing, not as cool as your heat bent wing but it works. I flew the plane with the wing the foam you sent recently, still flies really well. Even the glide is good.
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