Let me start this report with some background information. Every year for the past five years there has been a JR Indoor RC Festival held at the Four Seasons Golf Dome in Columbus, OH. Many who attended this wonderful show over the years were planning on “festival” number 6, this year in November.

To the surprise and disappointment of many, right after the 2008 NEAT Fair in mid September, a violent windstorm passed through the Ohio area and totally collapsed the Columbus inflatable dome. As a result, the festival’s original early November date had to be cancelled. It is currently believed that the dome will be rebuilt but the timing is not certain at the moment. The next festival may have to be put off until November 2009.

Oddly, in 2007 a group of indoor RC flyers from Muncy, Pennsylvania, decided to try their own indoor-fly at a dome in the Scranton area of Pennsylvania. But just before the scheduled date a storm collapsed the roof on that dome and in that case the dome was not rebuilt.

But despite this 2007 disappointment, the members of the Muncy Indoor Flyers Club were able to obtain the use of a new sports dome located in the town of Muncy, PA (approx. 8 miles from Williamsport, PA --- headquarters for the Worldwide Little League Baseball organization) for the weekend of October 18 and 19, 2008, to hold their event called the Keystone Indoor Electric Fly (KIEF).

 Members of the Muncy Indoor Flyers

Meanwhile, because of the cancellation of the JR Festival in Ohio, many indoor modelers simply changed their plans and decided to attend the KIEF event. As you will soon find out, everyone who did attend thought this was truly a wonderful affair that will likely become a very popular event in years to come.

Keep in mind that the KIEF caters to the general indoor/parking lot flyer with models weighing up to approx. one pound, plus the E-3D precision aerobatic pilots and to the micro scale and sport indoor flyers. All these factions are able to “survive” and enjoy flying indoors under one common roof, like KIEF’s.. As best we can tell this first time event attracted approx. 75 to 80 registered pilots  --- not bad!

Since this was a first time event I’d like to introduce the club officers, the CD and the Micro Event coordinators.

 Tony Minnella, President of the Muncy Indoor Flyers Club

 and overall man in charge

 Ron Angle, club Vice President at the right, presenting a donation check to the Dome Director, Mr. Dan Johnson

 CD for the event,  Mark Vukmanovich

 Micro Event Coordinators,  the popular team of Joe and Cindy Malinchak, who also write a by-monthly micro/indoor column for the AMA’s MODEL AVIATION

  KIEF was also very proud and privileged to have as guest visitors, their AMA District-III VP, Bob Brown, at left, as well as AMA President, Dave Mathewson