Raptors club pictures - please click to enlarge
Revised 8/11/22
 Buddy Bottoms - Founding Father
Super smooth flyer & all around nice guy |  Jim with his favorite airplane. |  Dennis Mason - Vice President
Always cool & calm. Loves to build. |
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 Randy Trotter - Treasurer
You will not meet a nicer guy.
Great builder & flyer. |  Dave Quick - Secretary & Safety Officer
Hardest working club member.
Won most improved flyer award in 2015 |  Randy's MX2 |
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 Valiant, just getting better & better. Set up for buddy box. |  Quique Somenzini creation. Best 1st flight I've ever had. |  Del & his new Pilot Extra 330SC |
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 JB's N51 DX, built from spare parts, P-51 fuselage, Extra 300 wing & home grown landing gear. Flies great !!!!!!!!!!! |  Johnie won Most Improved Flyer award 2016 |  Sure miss this one. |
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 Jims Skywing ARS300 with a DLA 128cc 4 cylinder gas engine. |  JB & Tom getting JB's antique Pitts Special going |  Dave & his Das Ugly Stick |
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 Tom Harper - Sure wish he would come back to the club. |  Johnie wringing out his new Timber |  128cc DLA 4 Cylinder engine in the Skywing ARS300 |
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 Jim Keith - President
Loves to fly low & push the envelope |  Dave & his awesome Cessna 182 |  Tom enjoying his Timber |
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 JB's 65" Turbo Duster - Blue/Yellow color scheme. |  Big Bird knife edge at the Blue Ridge Fly-in |  Del with his Sig 4 Star |
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 Buddy, his son Mike & grandson Jarod |  2016 Meals on Wheels benefit |  Great Planes Chipmunk. I regret ever selling this one. |
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 Jim & Dennis |  Johnie's Edge 540 |  Styrofoam fun |
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 Randy's sharp looking Pitts Python. |  JB & Dennis |  Buddy & his big old Cub. I believe it was originally built by Aubry Nabors |
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 Randy's cool EDF jet |  Worst day of my modeling career. This was definitely my favorite airplane. Filtered it through a tree at a strange field. |  Brandon, Del, Buddy & Dennis |
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 Big Bird gassed up & ready to fly. |  Del's new Pilot Extra |  Tom & his Alpha Trainer
Good flyer that can fly pretty well anything now. |
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 Yep dumb me tries to fly helicopters now & then. |  Buddy's awesome Spacewalker |  JB & his lovely bride Kathryn. You won't meet a nicer couple. |
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 Jim at Blue Ridge with the Hangar 9 Sukhoi & Aeroworks Extra 260 |  Randy with his Joe Nall find, the 100cc MX2. Great looking & flying plane. |  Randy & Del with Del's Extra 330 |
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 Hangar 9 Valiant - great flyer |  Buddy and his awesome looking Pawnee |  Lost what was my favorite airplane at the time. Jerked it up into a low level hover & the engine quit |
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 Randy at the
Blue Ridge Fly-in
with his huge Rascal |  Jerry, Jim & Dave |  Del with his Goldberg Yak 54 |
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 JB's J3 Wanna Be
Made from about 8 different airplanes |  Buddy & Dave preparing the Lancair for take-off |  Del & Johnie |
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 Dennis's big Cessna 310 |  Randy with his Pilot
Extra 260 |  The ill fated Gee Bee R2. Impossible to land. |
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 Bunch of gliders |
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