Welcome to the N/W FIREBALLS Control Line Modelers Home Page
The N/W FIREBALLS invite you to experience the fun, thrills and excitement of Control Line modeling.
Connect to the heart of your model! Feel it respond to your every move as it stunts, outflys your opponent in combat, or races with other planes and pilots.
Meet new friends who are eager to lend you a helping hand and share their knowledge and experience.
Win contest prizes and set records - or fly for fun at public demonstrations and Sunday afternoon FIREBALL FLY-INS at our home field in Portland's East Delta Park.
CONTROL LINE FLYING IS MORE THAN JUST SPINNING IN A CIRCLE!
THE N/W FIREBALLS WILL HELP YOU ENJOY CONTROL LINE MODELING!
We will help you develop new skills and improve existing methods of building and flying C/L model airplanes.
We have introduced many people of all ages to the basics of model airplane building and the pleasures of C/L flying.
Our membership includes experienced builders and flyers of all types of C/L models.
Our Training Program has planes and instructors to help you start flying C/L models.
Our Show Team - The FIRECATS - flys C/L demonstrations at aviation events throughout the Pacific Northwest. (Click link at bottom of page.)
Our home field is Jim Walker Memorial Field at East Delta Park off I-5, Exit 306b, in Portland, Oregon - the birthplace of modern C/L modeling.
Our club takes its name from the historic FIREBALL, the original C/L model. It was designed by Jim Walker at Portland, Oregon and marketed nation-wide in 1942. Pictured above are two original FIREBALLS - Frank Macy, who worked with Jim Walker, and one of Frank's many FIREBALL models.
The N/W FIREBALLS is the most active Control Line modeling club in the Pacific Northwest.
Pictured below are Scott Riese, pilot, and Leo Mehl, pitperson, with Scott's "Cardinal" at the NW Regional CL Meet on Memorial Day weekend in Roseburg, Oregon. (Photo by John Anderson.)
Pictured below is Dave Royer releasing wife Alice Cotton-Royer's original design "Artemis" at the NW Regionals. (Photo by John Anderson.)
Pictured below is Ted Gritzmacher releasing "Wrong Way" Leo Mehl's model at East Delta Park, the Fireballs home flying site.
Link to FIRECATS Show Team page & other C/L sites.
