Club Meetings

The Torrey Pines Gulls hosts bi-monthly meetings via zoom throughout the year. These meetings began in 2021 out of the need to continue meeting as a club during the Covid-19 pandemic. However, they have continued on, helping to bring the club together. Each meeting usually reviews the upcoming calendar of events and features a speaker on an interesting topic of interest to RC soaring or flight in general. Meetings are open to the public but club membership is encouraged.

Upcoming Meetings

April 21, 2026 - TBD
June 23, 2026 - TBD
Aug 25, 2026 - TBD
Oct 27, 2026 - TBD

Past Meetings

February 24, 2026 - Mike Swanson - The Skunk Works Approach to Innovation and Development
October 28, 2025 - Cancelled
August 26, 2025 - Larry Jolly - AMA Hall of Fame Biography
June 24, 2025 - Zeve Zilberstein and Carla Leon - Aztec Aerospace Design at SDSU
April 22, 2025 - Byron Ward and Christian Miller - A Subscale Integrated High-Lift Propulsor Testbed - Wayfarer Aircraft Research and Development
February, 2025 - Gary Fogel - Ballast or Not?
October 22, 2024 - Yuan Kang Lee - F1D Indoor Free Flight
August 27, 2024 - John McNeil - Capacity and Wire-size Planning for Radios, Motors, and BEC’s
June 25, 2024 - Cancelled
April 23, 2024 - Cancelled
February 27, 2024 - Gary Fogel - Ruth Alexander: Miss Air Capital of the West
October 24, 2023 - Ben Saraceno - Programming with ETHOS - FrSky RC, Inc.
August 22, 2023 - Kevin Vo - UCSD AIAA Design, Build, and Fly Team
June 27, 2023 - Cancelled
April 25, 2023 - Tom Kiesling - Design and Construction of F5J Competition Models
February 28, 2023 - Gary Fogel - Albert Merrill and the Early Invention of Wingerons and Pitcherons
October 25, 2022 - Corky Miller and Larry Jolly - The Fun of F3RES (FAI F3L)
June 28, 2022 - Mike Smith - Launch Low to Win, Launch Low too Often, to Lose - F5J Strategy
April 26, 2022 - Doug Fronius - The Robinson S/N JR-V Sailplane N18984
February 22, 2022 - Mengchen Li and Gary Fogel - Feng Ru and Early Powered Flight in California and China
October 26, 2021 - Jim Payne - Perlan II Sailplane to the Stratosphere
August 24, 2021 - Tom Watson and Steve Condon - GPS Triangle Racing
June 29, 2021 - Brent Lytle - The World’s Largest Glider (With 6 Jet Engines) - Stratolaunch
April 27, 2021 - Gary Fogel - Dale Drake and the Early Aerotowing in America
February 23, 2021 - Paul Naton - Radio Carbon Art and Early TPG Days