BROOKLYN SKYSCRAPERS

Brooklyn Skyscrapers Model Airplane Club

Happy 75th Anniversary to the most active club in the Northeast.

Brooklyn Skyscrapers at the club’s 75th Anniversary dinner on April 30, 2011.

Yes, the banner is 25 years out-of-date but that’s okay – in 2036 we’ll double it!

Back row: Jean Pailet, Bob Morris, Tom Juell, Mal Maclean, Art Collard, Andrew Barron.

Middle Row: Alan Abriss, Vito Gagliano, Brian Pacelli, Larry Davidson, Carrol Allen, Dave Acton, Ian Hurley, Mike Cook, Don Rousseau.

Seated: Chris Maikisch, Bob Geyer, Bob Hatschek, Leon Shulman, Bob Langelius, Bob Lipori, Tom Fennell. Leon (seated behind banner) started the club 75 years ago.

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.