T.R.A.M.P.S. aloft in Empire

By Mike Buhler
The Traverse Area Model Pilots Society took to flight at the Empire Airport last Saturday, with hundreds of model airplanes, and several hundred participants and spectators from across the Great Lakes region. Doug Sattler (below) is typical of the members, a ten-year enthusiast from Traverse City with 19 airplanes. Asked about when #20 would join the collection, he was cagy. Yet he made one telling remark: “It’s an addiction!.”