Northwest Fireballs
The Northwest Fireballs control-line model airplane club
is based in Portland, Ore. The members fly several
times a week at the Jim Walker Memorial Control-Line
Flying Field at East Delta Park, where the club also hosts
the annual Jim Walker Memorial Spring Tune-Up event every
April. E-mail
for information about flying activities. For
more information about Jim Walker and his American Junior
Aircraft Company, visit the American
Junior website.
Club officers
Doug Powers,
president
Don Curry,
vice president
Barbara White,
secretary/treasurer
Jim Cameron, member at large
Gary Harris,
safety officer
Interested in joining the Fireballs? Annual dues are $20;
Academy of Model Aeronautics membership is required. E-mail for
information
Click to see map of Delta Park flying
field
New! Fireballs
participate in global Ringmaster
fly-a-thon
See
article
New! 2024 Jim Walker Memorial Spring Tune-Up
report
See
article
New! Another
CL year opens at Delta Park with
Oregon Flying Fun No. 1 See
article
New! 2023 After-Thanksgiving Race results
and photos See article
New! Fireballs participate
in 2023 worldwide Ringmaster
fly-a-thon See article
New! 2023 Jim Walker Memorial Spring Tune-Up
report See article
Portland opens 2023 flying season with Oregon Flying Fun No. 1 See article
2022 After-Thanksgiving
Race results and photos See article
Fireballs participate in 2022
worldwide Ringmaster fly-a-thon
See article
 Jim Walker Memorial Spring Tune-Up
returns after pandemic See
article
<< Richard
Entwhistle remembered See
obituary
Oregon kicks off 2022 season at Oregon Flying Fun No. 1 in
Portland See article
2021 A Day at the
Races action at Delta Park See article
Fireballs participate in 2021 Ringmaster fly-a-thon See article
Fireballs participate in 2020 global Ringmaster fly-a-thon See article
Fireballs 2020 banquet report See article
Oregon fliers kick off 2020 in Portland
at Oregon Flying Fun No. 1 See article
Hot laps on a cold day: 2019 Portland Sport/Clown racing contest
See article
Fireballs make Ringmaster
fly-a-thon flights See
article
First-ever A Day
at the Races contest report See article
2019 contest season opens with a damp Jim Walker Memorial Spring Tune-Up
See article
Big group opens 2019 with Oregon Flying Fun No. 1 See article
2018 Portland
Northwest Sport Race contest report See article
 Contest season opens
with Jim Walker Memorial Spring
Tune-Up See article
and photo gallery >>
Oregon fliers greet 2018 with Oregon Flying Fun No. 1 See article
 << Strong turnout for 2017 Portland Northwest Sport Race
contest See article
Portland modelers turn out for June fun
fly See article
 << 2017 Jim
Walker Memorial Spring Tune-Up results and photos
See article
Fireballs host 2017 Oregon Flying Fun No. 1 See article
Weather clears for Delta
Park Northwest Sport Race See article
Fireballs take part in 2016 worldwide
Ringmaster fun fly See
article
Independence Day
celebrated with Delta Park Fun Fly
See article
2016 Jim Walker
Memorial Spring Tune-Up results and photos See article
2016 Oregon Flying
Fun No. 1 starts the season at Delta Park See article
2015 Jim Walker
Memorial Spring Tune-Up results and photos See article
The Fireballs have been out practicing in
Delta Park on every nice day in spring 2015, getting ready
for the Jim Walker Memorial Spring Tune-Up, coming up on
April 17-18-19. See Where the
Action Is for details. At the field on April 1 were
Dave Royer, Richard Entwhistle, Don Curry, Terrence
Bardue, Leo Mehl, Doug Powers, Scott Riese, Ron Anderson
and Jim Harper, along with visitor Fred Underwood and a
couple of other visitors whose names we didn't catch. Jim
Harper photo.
New! Oregon
flying year kicks off with Oregon
Flying Fun No. 1 at Delta Park See article
 <<
New! Obituary: Jerry Olson,
1952-2014 See article
2014 Jim Walker
Memorial Spring Tune-Up results and photos See article
Obituary: Geoffrey Christianson,
1931-2013 See article
>>
Fireballs Summer
Picnic 2012 See article
Two-part Clown
Contest results See
article
Fliers greet new year at Delta Park with
Oregon Flying Fun No. 1 See
article
Download December 2011 Fireball Flyer
newsletter
Download November 2011 Fireball Flyer
newsletter
Download October 2011 Fireball Flyer
newsletter
includes intra-club Clown Day report
New! Portland
fun flies ring in the year 2011 See article
Results of Fireballs Clowning Around
contest See article
2010 Jim Walker Memorial Tune-up report See article
Fireballs and friends inaugurate 2010
flying in fun-fly at Delta Park See article
Fireballs to host multi-event Flying
Clown Day in 2010 See
article
A typical flying day at East Delta Park See article
Wayne Spears obituary, memorial service
information See article
Portland area fliers meet Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays (with occasional weekend flying) at
East Delta Park. There's usually a good group on
hand, sometimes a dozen or more. On a recent Friday, these
Fireballs members modeled their new hats. Geoff
Christianson photo.
The Northwest Fireballs flew their second
annual demonstration on July 4, 2009, at Happy Valley Park
near Portland. Pictured are (back row, left to right)
Richard Entwhistle, Jim Harper, Jerry Olson and Gary
Harris; (front row) Irene Heen, Jim Cameron, Doug Powers.
Not shown are Mark Hansen and Barbara White. See article. Barbara White
photo.
Here are the Fireballs attending the March
13, 2011 meeting at Doug Powers' house. Left to right:
Scott Riese, Leo Mehl, and (on the sofa, behind Leo) Jerry
Olson, Doug Powers and Mark Hansen, Bill Lee, Ron
Anderson, Jim Cameron, Alice Cotton-Royer, Dave Royer, Jim
Harper, Don Curry and Richard Entwhistle. Fireballs
photo.
The pleasant setting at East Delta Park in Portland,
Oregon, is the site of the annual Jim Walker Memorial
Spring Tune-up contest (a stunt flier performs on the
asphalt circle, above) and other organized flying
activities through the year, as well as regular informal
flying sessions. In photo below, a Fireball member
does a final pass on the grass flying area before a
contest. Leo Mehl photos.
Map of East Delta
Park, Portland, home of Fireballs flying
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was updated Oct. 8, 2024
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