Anatomy of a Flying Field

Finding & Keeping Flying Fields:By Walt WilsonPhotos by the author, except as notedAs seen in the October 2002 issue of Model Aviation.The Spirits of St. Louis R/C Flying Club, Inc. was formed in 1965. During the next 34 years, we had three different flying fields in the vicinity of Creve Coeur Lake in Maryland Heights, Missouri. The Saint Louis County Parks Department purchased the property we had been leasing and, in 1999, notified us that we would be losing our third field to the developer of a golf driving range. The first two had also become driving ranges!  The Saint Louis…