It was conveniently located near a Taco Bell and other major fast food outlets, where voracious post flight apetites could be replenished at minimal cost. The Flyers were also on a first name basis with the local Dominos pizza when after hours construction projects were underway. Conveniently located only minutes away from several illegal flying fields discovered and squatted on by our field survey team Benji "The Guano Man" and William aka "Launch Pad" or "El Infidelo". The last discovered field christened "Aurora Field" in Hialeah Gardens, now with multiple runways, is still an active field logging hundreds of hours of flight time each month. This is the only remaining field from which many flyers from beginner to advanced, proudly take their machines to the air without fear of being kicked out. In fact this field is coming up on it's 3rd year anniversary as a non-commissioned gettho field.

dude we need to get some photos of the flying fields to properly document the Flyers colorful history.
ReplyDeleteWe had some good times in Aurora Hobbies, huh? Too bad things changed in life and we moved on from that. I had my baby(which is in fact great, but it was the beggining of the end of the ghetto flyers "core"), then you closed the hobby shop, and well... that was that. We had a lot of fun(if many headeaches, especially you) in that place. Someday we might open a flying field with a hobby shop on site. Now that would be an idea worth thinking about.
ReplyDeleteIf I was retired and had enough money I might consider doing it again. One of the reasons we struggled besides the "Frank" factor, was that we started the business on a shoestring. I was surprised we lasted as long as we did. You know what? fuck the hobby shop. We just get the field, and sell shit out of a trailer. We could shape the trailer in the shape of a Control tower. Sell Burgers, Hot Dogs, beverages, fuel, glow plugs and propellers. And charge a modest fee for using the field. Maybe also offer flying lessons for the newbies. Something simple. Hire a couple of dudes to run the trailer while we fly all day.
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