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About an hour south of Syracuse just off I81 you’ll find the Chenango Bridge Airport, a beautiful grass strip airport and home to the Binghamton Aeros. The Aeros are a small club of modellers who fly giant scale models exclusively off this site. Every year on the second weekend in August they throw open the gates and welcome guests to come fly for the weekend.

This year a group of us decided to make the trip down to Chenango Bridge and check out this great site for ourselves. In all there was a 12 of us from the Ottawa area attending the event. We made up a quarter of the attendees. The organizers acknowledged our presence with the playing of Oh Canada at the official opening of the rally.

The weather for flying was great and I did plenty of it. The Aeroworks Extra 260 is finally working really well and I had a great time throwing it around the sky. I think I put a dozen or so flights on it over the weekend. Ed had fun with his Raven, Mike, Emmanuel, Gerry and Donny all got in multiple flights over the weekend. This was Paulo’s first time at a giant scale rally and after a rough first attempt managed to log a few flights with his newly acquired 1/4 scale Piper Cub.

Mike brought his TF Giant Scale P47 along and it was a crowd favorite. He really does a great job of flying it in a scale manner. He was in good company as there were 3 other Jugs there and plenty of other warbirds.

At noon the organizers arranged for a few different demonstration flights. First up was WWI airplanes. What a site!! Eight giant WWI planes all in the air at the same time. It was great to see and Joe would have loved it. Sorry I didn’t get any photos of it. Next up was a group of heavy metal WWII warplanes. I can’t remember how many but it was an impressive site as well. Next up some civilian planes including a 40% scale Cessna 140. Great looking plane. The organizers then invited Ed and I to try and wow the crowd with our two aerobats. It was a blast to share the sky with my good friend and have a little fun. I heard some Ooos and Awws and I think the crowd enjoyed the show. We enjoyed putting it on.

 

I didn’t take a lot of photos because frankly I was having too much fun flying but you can click on the image in this post and check out some of the pics I did take.

Next year the Binghamton Aeros will be hosting the annual IMAA Rally of Giants in June. It’s a great site and should be a great event. I know I’ll be there. Hope you can join us.

Happy Landings
Scott