Long Island Silent Flyers, Woodbury, New York, USA
- Long Island Silent Flyers club information:
- activity: Aircraft
- number of members: 1
- located: Woodbury, New York, USA
We are the Long Island Silent Flyers, a group of radio control flight enthusiasts specializing in flying thermal duration, hand launched and electric powered model sailplanes.
We also fly rubber-powered free-flight model aircraft and slow-flight electric-powered model aircraft. LISF has access to a beautiful field in Stillwell Woods Park, in Syosset, Nassau County, New York, where we have been flying since January of 1975.
Flying is a relaxing hobby, providing an outlet for the stresses of modern life. It also transforms our leisure time into fun and exercise.
Flying is fun! Come out to the field at Stillwell Park on a nice low-wind weekend day and see what we are up to.
You will meet some friendly and interesting people from all walks of life who love to fly and talk about flying model aircraft.
Flying is a challenging sport. The challenge of thermal duration flying is finding thermals, which are rising masses of warmer air, and riding them to greater heights.
By flying from thermal to thermal we can often keep our sailplanes up for ten minutes or longer.
Thermal duration sailplanes are slow flying and graceful in the air, but that doesn't stop us from feeling the excitement of finding a thermal and watching them gain altitude without using a propeller.
Hand launch / F3K sailplanes and electric powered sailplanes give pilots the same challenges as thermal duration sailplanes; they are just launched differently.
With rubber-powered free-flight models the challenges are building and then trimming the plane for the desired flight.
