Floyd Czoski, a man of niche talents as a balsa wood airplane enthusiast and local organist with Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church on the South Hill, winds up the rubber-band propeller on a One Nite28 balsa wood airplane with a machine known as a "winding stooge" on Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020 at the South Hill Sports Complex in Spokane, Wash. The club is more or less unofficial, comprised of a few area enthusiasts that were initially drawn to John Robison's Balsa Wood Airplane Clinic. Robison has been enamored by the lightweight aircraft since he was a boy, and now shares his knowledge and building skills to teach others to build their own through the clinic, at least prior to COVID. Balsa wood airplanes are incredibly light, weighing in at around half an ounce, because the heavier the model, the more damage it can suffer in a crash landing, because the plane leaves the hand of its pilot on the ground, they answer only to the wind. Balsa wood airplanes can be simple gliders, but can also be rubber band-powered or even overhauled to correspond with remote-controlled devices. Robison may be contacted at 509-534-2205 for details on the Balsa Wood Airplane Clinic.
Libby Kamrowski The Spokesman-Review