Ringmaster Fly-A-Thon

Ringmaster fly-a-thon event for control-line airplanes.

2026 Ring Master Fly-A-Thon

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The 19th Annual World Wide Ringmaster Fly-A-Thon is upon us.


This coming weekend, October 3rd and 4th, 2026 is the 9th consecutive year the Stetson Flyers 'Circle Burners' will be participating in the World Wide event.
The Stetson Flyer 'Circle Burners' invite all Ottawa Clubs and Zone G Club Members to come out and join in the fun of flying a Ringmaster control line model.
We have an electric control line club trainer called, the 'Ring-A-Phoenix', for all who are a bit rusty and haven't flown a C/L model since their youth. Also there is an opportunity for those who have never flown C/L to try their hand at it. Instructors will be available to assist Newbies to C/L.

DATES:

  • Saturday, October 3rd, 2026, the Stetson Flyers Club will be hosting a free BBQ lunch, Noonish (1200h). On the Menu there will be Hot Dogs, BBQ'd Corn, Soft Drinks & Bottled Water.
  • Sunday, October 4th, 2026, bring your own food etc.

TIMES:

2022 Ringmaster Fly-A-Thon

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October 1-2, 2022: The 15th Annual Worldwide Ringmaster Fly-A-Thon is over and what a blast! The final numbers are in and as of  15 Nations worldwide submitted a total of 10,481 flights logged by 605 pilots. A whopping 2,154 flights more than last year's record setting 8,327 flights logged by 553 pilots!

For the Stetson Flyers Club it was the 4th consecutive year participating in this event.
Mother Nature graced us with a good weather weekend. 
Stetson Flyers Club’s previous Fly-A-Thon records were surpassed: 15(14) pilots flying 12(5) variants of the "Ringmaster" logged a total of 241(66) flights over the course of the two days. Interest in control line (C/L) is definitely on the upswing. Piloting the model aircraft were new, very lapsed (i.e. decades), budding and veteran C/L pilots.

Link to photo gallery
2022 Ringmaster Fly-A-Thon Photo Album
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Vars, ON, Canada
 

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