Radio-control pilots tutor Crossroads kids
SUN PHOTO BY GREG MARTIN
Barry Wilhite, president of the Charlotte Sport Modelers Society, right, gives some instruction on flying a model plane Saturday to Robert, one of nine foster kids from the Crossroads foster home, at the society's flight park off Kings Highway.
SUN PHOTO BY GREG MARTIN
Ashton, 14, left, one of nine foster kids from the Crossroads foster home, chats with Bill Hare, vice president of the Charlotte Sport Modelers Society, as Hare prepares his plane for flight Saturday at the model plane park on the R.V. Griffin Reserve in southwest DeSoto County.
SUN PHOTO BY GREG MARTIN
Barry Wilhite explains the virtues of his model Messerschmit ME-262 jet to a fellow model plane club member as Ashton, right, looks on Saturday at the flight park on the R.V. Griffin Reserve.
SUN PHOTO BY GREG MARTIN
Mike Conlon of the Charlotte Sport Modelers Society, right, demonstrates how to control a model airplane to a boy from the Crossroads foster home Saturday.
SOUTHWEST DESOTO COUNTY — Some nine foster kids got a crash course on remote-controlled airplane flying Saturday, and wound up catching a glimpse of a brighter future in the process.
The instructors were members of the Charlotte Sport Modelers Society, based at their model-plane flight center off Kings Highway on the R.V. Griffin Reserve.
