Medicine Hat RC'ers president and chief instructor Ian Griffiths flies on Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. (Photo Courtesy Chris Brown)

By Chris Brown

Friendly skies

Festival of Flight will be a showcase of radio control pilot talents

Sep 15, 2021 | 1:41 PM

MEDICINE HAT, AB – The Medicine Hat RC’ers are ready to fly at their third annual Festival of Flight this weekend.

RC’ers president and chief instructor Ian Griffiths says radio control pilots will be about to fly around and showcase what they can do with the small aircraft.

“We’ll have lots of planes and things around, we’ll be doing some 3D aerobatic shows and things with the aircraft. There’s a thing called IMAC which people fly which is precision aerobatics, so we do rolls and spins and loops and all that kind of thing,” he says. “And then obviously hopefully we’ll have some helicopters turn up as well so they’ll do some really interesting 3D flying where they sort of just flip around, things that you would never imagine a helicopter would ever do.”

Anyone thinking of getting into RC flying will be able to test out flight simulators and will be able to test out different aircraft to fly around the field.

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Griffiths says there will be aircraft of all sizes at the show. That variety matches the age of club members.

“Our youngest member, we have 11-year-old members that fly all the way up to 80-odd-year-old members that are still flying,” says Griffiths.

The Festival of Flight goes from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday and admission is free.

The RC’ers flying field is off of Box Springs Road, just north of the Medicine Hat Speedway.