Background of the WNYFFS

WNYFFS member Jack Barker launching his full size Zipper at the 2008 Empire State Free
Flight Championships. Jack’s ship is powered with a Forster 0.305. It is covered in silk and dope.
Jack won class C event with his Zipper in the Sturgis MI SAM Champs in 2004.

The Western New York Free Flight Society, formed in the late 1960’s by a handful of dedicated modelers, is today an area-wide organization with members from nine states and Canada. For over 31 years the WNYFFS has hosted the annual Empire State Free Flight Championships, scheduled for 2008 on August 15,16 & 17. The WNYFFS also co-sponsors, with a Canadian free flight group, the Great Grape Gathering contest (named for the bottles of wine given in lieu of trophies) scheduled on September 19,20 & 21. The site of these two meets is the Geneseo Historic Air Group airport just west of Geneseo, New York. Membership in the WNYFFS is open to anyone in the upstate New York area, young or old, interested in free flight modeling. Annual dues are $10, and members receive the club’s newsletter, the Thermal Journal, with club news and information on upcoming club contests and other activities. An annual business meeting and dinner is held each November.

2008 Remaining Schedule of Events

The Annual Meeting – November 15, 2008