Silent Knights Soaring Society
A Radio Control Aircraft Club specializing in sailplane and electric powered RC aircraft
SKSS Hosted BASS Club's F3L Contest
July 12, 2025
On Saturday, July 12, the SKSS co-hosted a glider contest with the Baltimore Area Soaring Society (BASS). The contest was an F3L contest, which is a contest for two-meter gliders that are made mostly of wood. There are gliders that are designed to compete in the F3L category, but the contest was open to any two meter “woody” glider. Those models, such as the Sig Riser I used, were at a disadvantage as they were too heavy but still fun to fly in the contest.
The BASS guys have regular contests, and they are well equipped to run them. They have a program called Glider Score for scoring, a loudspeaker system and a large LED billboard to keep everyone aware of what Round and Heat was happening. They were very well organized.
As per the F3L rules the gliders are launched by a hi-start. If you haven’t used a hi-start there were a lot of helpful guys there to show you how, or even launch the plane for you.
The day started cloudy but cleared up to be a beautiful soaring day with lift everywhere.
Just a great day for flying.
SKSS hosted the Delaware Aerospace Educational Foundation's annual ROCKET DAY
July 11, 2025
On Friday, July 11 th , SKSS hosted the Delaware Aerospace Education Foundation graduationceremony. The DASEF educates students of all ages in the areas of math, science, technology, andaerospace. They have a summer camp that teaches rocketry and for their graduation they come to ourfield to launch model rockets. The WCCSP has allowed this rocket launch and the DASEF has beencoming to our field for the last 27 years.There were two busloads of kids, 40 in total. As usual the DASEF staff was very well organized. The kidsflew their rockets and then policed the field picking up stray debris. The field was left pristine.This was the last DASEF rocket day the organization will have at our field as they now have their ownfield in Smyrna. The end of an era.