Who Are We?:
The Quinapoxet Model Flying Club is a R/C aircraft club with
fields located off River Street in Holden, MA. and rt110 in Lancaster at an area known as "Bolton Flats".
As a club, we seek to promote the R/C hobby through the flight instruction,
building and flying of radio controlled aircraft, in accordance with both AMA
and club rules.
Visiting flyers (with AMA)
are welcome to fly at our fields while accompanied by a QMFC club member. Non-flyers are welcome as spectators. Please, no pets. Click here for detailed directions.
Upcoming and Recent Club Events:
4th Annual Air Show and Picnic:
The 2011 Annual Air Show and Picnic was an unqualified success with more than 100 spectators visiting us over the course of the day. The great weather didn't hurt either. We had some visiting pilots from New Hampshire flying some great giant scale planes including a P-47 and a 1/3 scale J3 Cub. What a treat.
Direct thanks has gone out to all the helpers and attendees of which there were many. But a thanks also goes to Dany Pelletier who took some great pictures. You can see them here. There are also some pictures here from Al Hinz and Colin Towers (Wanna-be professional photographers - ha!). Enjoy Great pictures Dany and Al.
We had a great raffle - 6 wonderful prizes. An RTF trainer very generously donated by Bob Rice at HobbyUSA in Ashland. And four park flyer ARFs and an 2.4 TX?RX donated from Horizon Hobbies. Thanks you so much. Turn 4 Hobbies of West Boylston set up a vendor's stand. The day seemed to be worth their efforts.
 This Picture:
Was taken sometime in March at Crow Island Club. It just happened that 6 of us brought Cubs and 4 were quarter scale. The picture's title?? Well "Make way for Ducklings" of course. Thanks to Bill Belmore for letting us use his Legend Cub.
Winter FunFly 2010:
This event was held at the Holden Field on Saturday, March 20. The weather gave us a nice sunny and warm day, but the winds were a bit strong and, of course, directly across the runway. Bob Caras kindly took tons of photos. You can review them here. Enjoy.
Childrens' Action Corps (2010):On June 17 we held our annual private Air Show for the children at the CAC. The club routinely hosts a mini airshow for the children in the care of the Robert F. Kennedy Children's Action Corps at the RFK School in Lancaster. The show was delivered as three 45 minute events during which several pilot members flew their planes and answered questions from the children and faculty. The children definately enjoyed the occasion. Click here for some pictures (for security and privacy, the students and faculty's details have been hidden). This year is the third such event for the CAC and we hope that we can repeat the show again next year or even repeat the show later this year. For pictures of last year's event please click here. The link to the Children's Action Corps is here
Air and Space School (2010): (Boys and Girls Club of Central Massachusetts). April 24 gave us great weather for this event. Fow a report of the day please click here.
Fall 2009 FunFly:
In November we held a funfly at the Holden field. The weather was perfect and we had a bout 15 pilots. 6 pilots participated in some fun activities and the rest of us just laughed at the antics Marc Gendron was CD. Bob Caras kindly took some pictures. You can view them here.
Club Information:
What do we do?:
We primarily focus on
R/C sports, sport scale, pattern and scale aerobatics. We also have quite a
Gremlin combat following. We do have a few club members who fly helicopters
at the field. Other members who like to fly gliders or compete in racing
events tend to belong to other clubs. Most of us either build our own planes or assemble ARF's (Almost Ready to Fly) aircraft. If you'd like to see some of our building projects click here.
Flight Instruction
& Flight Tests:
The QMFC encourages
new members to the club and to the hobby. go to "Getting Started" for more information on joining this hobby. Therefore, we maintain a staff of
very experienced Flight Instructors. Flight instruction is free of charge to
QMFC members in good standing. See more information under "Our
Club". Click on either Basic
Level or Advanced Level to see our flight qualifying programs.
Club Meetings:
Club meetings are held at Paul's McCulley's house
on the second Monday of each month except for July and August. All members
and visitors are welcome to come along. For directions please contact the webmaster or call 978-779-9860. The December
meeting is our annual Holiday Party.
How can you join?:
You must be both a club member and a member of the AMA in order to fly at our club. Please visit the AMA to obtain an application form and click here for a downloadable application form for the club
Newsletter:
We publish a newsletter bi-monthly for club members.. The current newsletter
is available here. Please note you will need the membership login
credentials to view the Newsletter
QMFC Forum: To access the club's forum please click here. Note, you will be required to login to this site
The Fields:
Please note
that both of our fields are owned either by the State of Massachusetts
(Lancaster Field) or the Town of Holden
(Holden Field). So please leave no litter or crash debris. Click here for the current composting schedule and rules. For current conditions please click here.
Sharing:
 Well, I finally got my 33% Sopwith Pup in the air. There is a little story behind this. If you would like to read all about it and see some picture please click here.
I have constructed aircraft for RealFlight that fly like my own (Or how I would like them to fly!!!! If you would like to download them please click on the plane, save the file (If the file saves as a .zip file, change the extension to .G3X)
Giant B-25
Giant DC-3/C-47
Giant P-47
SIG Quarter Scale Piper Cub
Check out our Highlight sites:
Hobby Fever
in Billerica
Proprietor is Jay
Michael Ulman
Michael creates amazing pieces of art will nothing but junk. Check out this site, you won't be disappointed
Parkflyers R/C
Great website
Turn 4 Hobbies
in West Boylston
QMFC Inaugural Air Show
This is an edited (so it fits YouTube) video of our 2007 Summer Air Show and Picnic. See still pictures here
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