BROOKLYN SKYSCRAPERS

Brooklyn Skyscrapers Model Airplane Club

Established in 1936, the Brooklyn Skyscrapers is one of the oldest model airplane clubs in the country. The club still has a large membership, although not one single member resides in the borough of Brooklyn, N.Y. The club has retained this name for two reasons, tradition and chutzpah! Tradition, because of the clubs origin. And chutzpah because of the clubs old battle cry, "Brooklyn voises da woild." Also known as the most active club in the northeast, the clubs members still travel to all parts of the country to compete in free flight model airplane contests. Today the Skyscrapers have members living in all parts of the United States, but the core members still live in the N.Y.C. Tri-state area. Photographs of modeling activity from 1939 and 1957 can be seen below along with new photographs showing today's members. Sort of a photographic history showing sixty years of modeling's "good ole' days". Today the Skyscrapers fly in Wawayanda, NY on the Bryton Barron Memorial Flying Field. Fellow Skyscraper member, Andrew Barron purchased this amazing sod farm / flying field and has been kind enough to let us all use it. The field is approximately 800 acres of flat sod and some corn. This is probably the finest free flight flying site in the Northeast.

Congratulations Yuda Avla

Skyscraper club member Yuda Avla is the 2025 World Champion in F1Q from the recent Championship in Salonta, Romania, July 20-27. F1Q is the electric powered free-flight event recently added to the World Championship event list alongside F1A glider, F1B rubber, and F1C power. Yuda maxed out in the regular rounds and maxed also in the six and eight minute flyoff rounds. He saw thermal conditions right before the opening of the flyoff window, launched immediately after the flyoff window opened and his model caught up with the good air. Others in the final flyoff waited to observe and were too late. Yuda was the only one to get the eight minute max. to become the first and currently only F1Q World Champion. In addition to Yuda finishing in first place individually, the USA Team of Yuda Avla, Jack Murphy and Mike Pykelny finished on the podium as the 3rd place team.

Pictured with Yuda and his model are, from the left, fellow F1Q Team Member Jack Murphy, F1Q World Champion Yuda Avla, F1B Team Member Greg Simon (who assisted Yuda), USA Team Manager Blake Jensen, Assistant Team Manager Tiffany O'Dell, and F1Q Team Member Mike Pykelny.

Photos by Tiffany O'Dell

Report from Andrew Barron

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