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Wingz-n-Dawgz 2019

The Lawton Area Fun Flyers will be holding their Wingz-n-Dawgz fun fly Oct.12 at Elkins Field in Lawton, OK. Lunch is included with the $20 landing fee for pilots and available for $5 to all others. There will be a Raffle, tickets are $1 ea., 6 for $5 or $20 a stretch. It will be just a laid back open day of flying with one fun event after lunch. Gates open at 8:00am.

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September 1st Flying

Great weather with very little wind saw an (almost) all-electric fleet of LAFF’s planes this morning at Elkins Field. Several new planes were in evidence, including my new “MayBee” flat-foamie scheduled for the pages of Park Pilot magazine (Spring 2020, I’m guessing), with the maiden flight in the hands of Harold Anderson. Kris Frost brought two planes we hadn’t seen before—one of them a “SlowPoke” from Hobby King, and the other one a good-flying Flex Innovations “Extra 300 G2”. Mike Light and Harold treated us to formation flying with their two big Cessnas—and a landing that came close to being a Cessna sandwich, although there was no chance of that, given the skills of Mike and Harold.

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