Indoor Free Flight
May 30, 2019: Indoor Free Flight
By Rob Romash (rob@eclipsetoys.com)
Lead photo: The flightline with 42 entries. This is the most populated Indoor Nats in the last few years.
Contestants descended on the dome Wednesday from all points, as can be seen by the variety of license plates in the parking lot.
The Day 1 tradition of starting out with glider events holds true here in Arizona. All through the building, you could hear the “buzz” of high-speed gliders ballistically shooting at the ceiling and the occasional crunch as something went terribly wrong.
May 29, 2019: Indoor Free Flight
By Rob Romash (rob@eclipsetoys.com)
Once you are either off the airplane in Albuquerque or exit Interstate 25, there are only two ways to drive get to Springerville, Arizona—home of the Springerdome, affectionately called “The Enormodome,” and the site of this year’s Indoor Nats. Either route takes you more than 100 miles into the desert, heading west.
