We're sorry to announce that the launch at Buder Park for May 11th has to be canceled. A combination of a weather forecast for  too much wind in the wrong direction and standing water make it impossible to find a safe setup location in the park. We share the park with radio control fliers and we have to avoid rocket recovery near the runways.

Buder Park had been closed due to flooding earlier this week and had just reopened.  I had a chance to visit the park today and found that there was standing water still present in multiple locations on either side of the runways.  The wind forecast of 17 mph  or greater from the NW at 1:00 PM tomorrow  (due to a cold front coming in) was the kicker. Our recovery area would either be in water or near the runways for some of our flights. After consulting with the officers and board of directors we agreed that it would not be safe to launch in these conditions.

We had 2 groups of scouts scheduled to attend and we hope we can reschedule to a future launch. We have a meeting next Tuesday and will discuss our schedule again.  We do know that Buder Park has been scheduled by the St. Louis Whirlybirds RC Helicopter club for a 2 day event so next weekend is not available. Please continue to watch the web site for upcoming launch information.