We are an active club who enjoy flying and having fun!
At Mississinewa the fun begins early in the year - like on New Years Day.
Why not take a break from the bowl games and come out and fly with us?
Inside the tarp covered pavilion you'll find relief from the cold, and probably friends who want to hear how Santa treated you.
The Skyhawks enjoy a good swap meet!
We host one at the field during warm weather for folks to 'buy then fly' ! Of course, you're welcome to fly anyway so make sure you watch our schedule-of-events page for dates and put it on your calendar!
We also host an indoor swap meet - March Madness Swap Meet at the old Converse Gym. See you there!!
Club Combat - always a crowd pleaser!
The Skyhawks invite anyone interested in flying club combat to come out and have a blast!
The Skyhawks along with the Converse Flying Eagles host a few events that are loosely based on RCCA Open B and SSC class rules.
Combat is almost as much fun to watch as to fly - so come out and enjoy the show !
A tradition with the Skyhawks is to finish the contest season with our mostly-famous Egg Drop Contest.
Here we see two officers at work taping streamers to eggs to aid visual tracking of the bombs in flight. Our bombardiers must endure all sorts of hardship to score - like judging the wind and manuevering the plane to get the payload to the target area...not to mention the many helpful comments from other competitors!
Bombs Away !!
2011 Opening Day festivities included open flying, grilled burgers & dogs, and a combat match!
This year's Opening Day was held at the Converse Field, our sister club.
Our club combat matches are open to any AMA member! The 'Fearsome Five' here happen to belong to both the Mississinewa and Converse clubs but guests can fly combat too if AMA members.
This Falcon competed in Open B with electric power. After cutting a streamer it decided to tour the county and resultant damage looks worse than it is. It will fly again!
Match winner is 'The Scorpion King' Blanton (aka your humble webmaster). Although he competed with e-power, the winning points came via a glow powered PhencePost.
Aug 6, 2011 Converse Picnic & Fly-In
Converse is a great field for large planes. Top row shows Ben Batts flying freestyle with a QQ Pitts Python. Lots of 'down-on-the-deck' high alpha in Ben's routine! Ben's Dalton Extra IMAC machine shows why he won Advanced class at this year's NATS!
Left is Steve Eagle taxiing his third scale Nieuport 17. This plane has taken awards in static and a winner in scale competition. See it in a recent issue of Flying Models magazine!
