Welcome to Bayou City Flyers
October 14, 2024
Bayou City Flyers is a family-oriented club open to all categories of RC Flying with training available for new flyers. We host several types of events a year including SWAP meets. We welcome all types of RC planes: Electric, Glow/Gas, Jets (Turbine/EDF), Helicopters, Drones, Giant Scale, Aerobatic/Pattern, Pylon Racers, etc. Additionally, adjacent to BCF are Control Line and Soaring/Glider fields . We are located in George Bush Park (west side of Houston, Texas), within the Dick Scobee Memorial Airfields area located on the northwest corner of Westheimer Parkway and South Barker Cypress Road at the end of Challenger Dr. For reference, our street address is 17260 Westheimer Parkway, Houston, TX 77082.
The Bayou City Flyers home field is a FAA - Recognized Identification Area (FRIA) and includes a 630ft long x 80ft wide paved runway oriented 320 / 140 for fixed wing powered RC model aircraft and an adjacent area within the “fly zone” for RC helicopters and multirotor (drone) model aircraft. See our drone footage
The FAA requires that all sUAS’s (multi-rotor ‘drone’, fixed wing aircraft or helicopters) have an FAA Registration number placed on an exterior surface of each airborne vehicle. The FAA Registration site can be found at: https://faadronezone.faa.gov# This applies to commercially or recreationally flown sUAS’s. All pilots must have a valid AMA membership to fly within the Dick Scobee Memorial Airfields and must display their membership card when within the flying areas. The AMA information can be on an internal or external surface of the plane. For Scobee field, this is the AMA number of the recreational pilot. The AMA has a FAQ page which can be seen here: www.modelaircraft.org/faa-uas-frequently-asked-questions
The Bayou City Flyers RC club is chartered by the Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA Club 901).
Club News
April 2025 S.E. Texas R/C Scale Competition
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Oct 2024 NOTAM
Bayou City Flyers NOTAM is the club newsletter. Current news, events and information. Click on the link in the post to read the latest NOTAM. For Members ALL previous NOTAMs can be found under the Member & Membership Tab. Take some time and enjoy.
Oct. 12th BCF SWAP Meet
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Flite Metal and Hobby Resources
Flite Metal is a self-adhesive aluminum covering system for scale models.
Membership New or Renewal
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Dick Scobee RC FRIA Approved
Dick Scobee Flying Field Limits
Additional Weather Links
Aviation Art of the Month
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Upcoming Events
SOUTHEAST TEXAS WARBIRD RALLY / OCT 25-26
F3A COMPETITION [Nov 2-3] Bomber Field
WARBIRDS OVER LOUISIANA OCT 25-26, 2024
S.H.A.R.K.S. 10th Annual Jet Rally, OCT 17-19 Minden, LA Airport
AMA District 8
Access to AMA Sanctioned Events
Planes / Jets / Helicopters of the Month
Plans, Kits, and Scratch Built
Looking for the next aircraft built from plans, kits or scratch BUILT. Please share your ongoing project pictures.
September (2024)
George Lumpkins brought in a plans-built scale model of the 1943 Douglas XB42 bomber with working bomb bay doors. 6 cell Electric pusher that flies! :) NICE JOB!
John Haskell showed his built Goldberg Sky Tiger....stock picture.
JETS - Turbine / EDF
July 2019: New Category for members who build and fly Turbine or Electric Ducted Fan (EDF) jets. Bring in your 'Fast Movers" guys and share the SPEED!
Aeronautical Engineering - Project Rebuild
July 2019: Maximillian (Max) Burton our Club Treasurer, crashed his Hanger 9 10cc Ultra Stick Wednesday, July 17th. As you can see not pretty.
However; since I was flying at the field to maiden one of my rebuilt mash-ups and witnessed the ‘thump’, and looked at the remaining pieces which the recovering crew picked up, I offered to rebuild it for Max as a project and post the process and pictures here to the website. Luckily for Max the OS .65 Engine was fine along with the servos. The radio receiver was toast, yet the satellite receiver was good. Wheel pants pretty wrecked as well as fuel tank, prop and spinner. Horizon has replacement wheel pants but may try to salvage since I’m looking to do with just parts on hand.
(Project complete and delivered to Max on August 25th, 2019) (M. Wise) https://www.bayoucityflyersrc.com/hangar-9-ultra-stick-rebuild-project/
ARF/ARC Bashed/Redesigned/Imagined
Planes Almost Ready to Fly (ARF), Almost Ready to Cover (ARC) or finish or been Re-designed / Resurrected / or Imagined (BASHed). Show us your flying models! Need to fly at least once to be considered.
2024 (September) ARF - Jacqueline Haskell showed her JC Cub with a Zenoah 26 turning a 16x8 prop. Nice Work!
HELICOPTERS
Scale or Fun Helicopters. Bring your "Whirly Birds" guys and share the excitement of helicopter flying!
Thrust Test Stand
November 2022: George Lumpkin brought in an updated thrust test stand acquired from Ron Mers donated RC materials. He explained its operation and offered to test anyone's motor/battery/propeller combination.
(George wrote handout which can be found here: https://www.bayoucityflyersrc.com/wp-content/uploads/bsk-pdf-manager/2022/11/Thrust-Tester.pdf
MEMBER BUILD PROJECTS
Share your projects underway. Apologies to you guys if I've missed your submission. Working to catch up now.
MARCH 2021: John Haskell shared his E scale British Seafire he recently completed. Features: Approx flying weight - 8.8lb (4kg) Factory covered with Oracover Length - 50.4ins (128cm) Mechanical retracts supplied Suits - 75-91 2 Stroke (120 4 Stroke) Wing area - 759.5sq.ins (49.0sq.dm) Wingspan - 64.6ins (164cm)
APRIL 2020: Maximillian Burton shared his older Seagull Piper Cub J3 he recently completed with all the build time we have now with the pandemic.
Max's Piper has a 88.2" WS, L: 56.2", Wt, 9.95-11 lbs., running a 2 stroke OS95AX2, with 6 Hitech HS-645MG servos.
APRIL 2020: Mark Troutman wants to thank the club member who gave him this great old Control Line stunt trainer called a 'Banshee' around the time of our last swap meet. Mark couldn't remember who it was so if you know please let him know. Mark covered it with Silk Span and trimmed it with tissue paper and used clear dope over everything. Very old school but he wanted it to be different having sat for 25 years waiting to be built. Beautiful job!
AUGUST 2020: Mike Wise recently completed a total redo/scale upgrade of Motion RC's T-33 Shooting Star. He selected Erich Hartmann's West German Luftwaffe scheme from @1956, Callie graphics and other details.
SEPTEMBER 2020: Jim Dieckow's 8' WS Mongo flying wing project. Originally a slope soarer, Jim converted to electric power using a Monster 50 with two 3600ma packs in parallel and added landing gear. Flies great!
Jim Dieckow's Mongo 8' flying wing
