• Here's where we take a look at another website of model-flight interest. It might be a commercial site or one belonging to another enthusiast or specialist group. Let me know if you've come across a nice site that you think is worth a look - it could, of course, be your site if you let me know your URL!

FUBAR HILL is the site of ERIC KLER and although Eric was too bashful to submit his own personal profile, I have gleaned enough from his site to be able to tell you just a little bit about him.

Eric has been flying r/c for about nine years and apart from his obvious love of aero modelling, he owns and operates a ranch in South-East Wyoming, USA, with his wife Vickie and daughter Kayla. Vickie also runs a home-based home-made goatmilk soap business, so if you want give your wife an unusual present, take a look at Kayla's website!

Eric's site exudes his enthusiasm for model flight and contains many interesting and varied pages. There's a great sense of humour evident on many of them, especially those featuring his club and its members, which is really at the centre of the site. Fubar Hill itself is Eric's nickname for his club field and is an acronym, the definition of which can only be discovered by visiting his site! If I revealed it here, I would lose my family website rating!

Pages on Fubar Hill cover amusing incidents and stories, like the High Speed Potato Digger page, How It All Started and Auction Day, whilst Engine Performance and Tips and Techniques cover more serious subjects. That's a potato digger on the right, with the harvested spud nicely speared on what might once have been a wingtip!

Eric has a nice group of pages called Current Planes, where there are pages dedicated to particular models, e.g., Dragon Lady's, Sig Hog Bipes, Piper Cubs, etc., and they carry some great pictures of these models made by Eric and others. I'm going to put a clutch of Dragon Lady models up on the next ModelFlight for you to see and here are a couple of shots off the page covering Piper Cubs. 

This beauty in the left is Dave Collis's 1/3 scale Balsa USA Cub, powered by a Zenoah G62. On the right is Roly's 1/4 scale Sig Clipped Wing Cub. Roly has given this the full scale treatment, including a complete interior and all the mods that were done to the full-size Cub.

Eric's site is a great deal more inter-active than mine and features an up-to-date weather report, a forum and a guest book which you can sign and read. It's good fun, and from his list of items Coming Soon and Not So Soon there are some good things to look forward to.

http://zeus.rcwizard.com/fubar_hill/