Michael Breunig’s first model airplane flight of the year took place on the final flying event at the Lexington Model Airplane Club’s home of 26 years, the former Haley Pike landfill.
He remotely piloted a model of an Eindecker, one of the first planes flown in World War I. Breunig is the third person to own the plane, but was the first to actually fly it after it was left to him from the prior owner’s estate.
It was built from a kit, as many models are, and has a gas-powered engine about as strong as that of a weed-eater…