SEFF 2007

Wow ....what a year!  We had 383 pilots come take in all flying they could stand with great weather and tons of things to do.  SEFF is truly a festival in every sense.  The entire weekend was action packed with fun and fellowship. 

Pilots and spectators were thrilled to see a full vendor mall again with about 25 companies selling their products.  We really appreciate all the sponsors that come participate in SEFF each year.  The event would not be the same without you all.

The SEFF staff did an incredible job ensuring that everyone had a great time.  They worked extremely hard at preparing for SEFF and it was clear by all in attendance that our staff knows how to put on an air show.  Even though the event has grown significantly every year, the average pilot will be able to come participate and fly comfortably.

Thursday was the only seriously challenging day as the winds were quite strong.  The LMR glider contest had about 32 participants that braved the wind.  Open flying started at 3 pm Thursday and ran thru the rest of the weekend.  We had some pilots come from distant places such as Holland, England, Japan, Canada and even Alabama :-) 

Radical RC hosted the annual poker tournament on Friday evening and Jeff Meyers decided to let someone else win for a change.  All the other pilots stayed out at the field Friday evening and enjoyed great weather and flew past dark.  We were blessed with very nice weather on Saturday and Sunday and hundreds of flights were logged.  Saturday evening we served a BBQ dinner to 400 guests and had an acoustic musician and live comedy show in the evening.  After the comedy show, Higher Plane Productions played a half hour film in high definition on a 14 ft screen.  Hopefully Fred will make some of the film available to those that did not get a chance to see it.

Our staff will get together in early June to start preparing for 2008.  We are excited about putting together a list of improvements to keep SEFF the World's largest and premier electric event.

Thanks for coming to SEFF 2007.  See ya'll next year!

SEFF 2006

Our 2006 event drew over 310 pilots from all over the country.  Our vendor mall was packed with e-flight goodies from some of the industry's top suppliers.  Radical RC hosted a poker tournament and we had about 30 players.  We served BBQ to 275 people.  They also enjoyed an English Extra Special Bitter brewed by world famous "Fast Freddie".  We had an incredible noon hour demo daily featuring some of the best pilots and models in the world.  Our raffle featured over $14K in amazing prizes. 

We would like to thank Fred Midgett of Higher Plane Productions for creating a promotional video of the event.  If you've never been to SEFF...this video does a great job of offering a preview of what you can expect.  Below is the link to the video:

http://higherplaneproductions.com/seff07

A "documentary" type video was done again by SKS video:

http://www.sksvideo.com/dbID/178.html;

The Fayette Flyers & SEFF staff would like to thank all the pilots, spectators and sponsors that all helped to make SEFF 2004 a huge success.  

• Our 2004 event featured 286 pilots from all corners of the US as well as some visitors from Europe and Asia.  

• We were fortunate that we did not have any rain during the weekend.  However, it was very hot and humid.  Consequently, we are moving the 2005 event to late April.

• We had approximately 40 vendors and over $14,000 in raffle prizes.  

• A full scale Pitts Special flown by George Hall was a site to be seen during the noon hour demos.  

• There were 19 competitors that participated in the Thursday LMR sailplane contest.  We expect this to grow in 2005.

• The Grillmasters served a fabulous BBQ dinner to 250 people on Saturday night.

• A very special thanks to Fred Francis a.k.a. "Fast Freddie" for brewing the awesome SEFF Ale.

• We would also like to thank Glenn Delconte of AirCad Kits for designing and making the SEFF trophies and SEFF Ale labels.

• Seeing our event grow from 130 pilots to 286 in just three short years.....our club recognized that we were going to need outside help.  Thankfully, we had many volunteers step forward and joined the SEFF staff.  Thanks a million to all the folks that helped out.

• Hobby Lobby won the "Best New Product" Award with their entry, The Hellraiser.

• Bill Mixon won the "Largest Sport Plane" Award with his 16 ft. 9 inch span "Super Classic" scratch design.

• David Payne won the "Pilot's Choice Award" by flying his AXI powered Gee Bee.

• Wil Byers from Quiet Flyer Magazine attended SEFF again has has put out an amazing 32 page feature magazine on SEFF 2004.  I would imagine that you can contact Quiet Flyer and order a copy if they still have any. Quiet Flyer website here

• We were fortunate enough to have Paul Naton of Radio Carbon Art film the event for 4 straight days.  Paul has been working very hard on a 2 hour DVD called Electric Revolution.  The DVD is due out in early November and  you can preorder your copy today at Atlanta Hobby.

Click on the links below for event reports and the DVD:

2003 Event Reports

The Fayette Flyers would like to thank all the pilots, sponsors and spectators that participated in SEFF 2003.  The coverage done by Quiet Flyer, Fly RC, The E Zone and RC Universe was more comprehensive than anything I can write here.  Therefore, the best option to learn about this year is to read the online articles and / or order the back issues of magazines.  

Please click on the below links for information about the 2003 event.  

Quiet and Electric Flight International 2003 report by Ewen Bruce of the United Kingdom
1.4 meg PDF

2002 Event Report

Thanks to all the pilots, sponsors, exhibitors and spectators for supporting the first annual Southeast Electric Flight Festival. When we started working on the event nine months ago, we had no idea if many folks would attend. You did, and we are glad you came as this event was created for you. A large electric fun fly was long overdue for our part of the country. The Fayette Flyers worked very hard to put this event together and hope you all had a great time. Many of you expressed your appreciation to the club members. I know this meant a lot to the guys (and ladies).

Looking back, the weather seemed to only slightly inconvenience us throughout the weekend. For those that did not get blown away Friday morning...you were treated to a beautiful AND calm evening. The sunset was magnificent and the sky was filled with planes. (Exactly what I anticipated when we chose the late June date many months ago) Saturday was another story...but we had a good time. The demo flights were awesome! The weather forecast for Sunday did not look good. I arrived at the field a little before 8:00 and we had a few showers. By nine...the sun came out and we had a beautiful day of flying and demo flights.