{"id":11502,"date":"2025-04-01T11:26:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T15:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/?p=11502"},"modified":"2025-04-01T11:26:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T15:26:41","slug":"april-fools-and-lucky-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/april-fools-and-lucky-13\/","title":{"rendered":"April Fool’s and Lucky 13"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, 01 April 2025, marks 13 years since I took over Shorty’s Basement (2012) and then converted it to Volare Products.\u00a0 It is still a one-man shop and I work on it every day that I am at home.<\/p>\n

A lot of water has passed under that bridge, including three different shopping carts, a few web-hosting hiccups, the procurement of Superior Props, the TEMPORARY demise of Superior Props (95% my fault).\u00a0 Some other stats that are rather impressive; to me at least:\u00a0 I have produced just under 150 laser-cut kits\/variants, with over 9,500 kits sold, and over 68 THOUSAND total orders (that is about 2.5 orders every day)!<\/p>\n

Superior Props WILL be back.\u00a0 The move to Michigan from Ohio proved to be a challenge.\u00a0 Expertise was lost and modifications have had to be made.\u00a0 I have one more bracket to make for the prop machine and then it “should” be ready to pump out the props again.\u00a0 We’ll have to make sure the operation is running per expectations (it’s not a simple process).<\/p>\n

Of course, I’m not sitting still.\u00a0 There are more kits in the pipeline (I work on these new designs nearly every day) and I am sure there will be new or revised 3D-printed items coming, too.\u00a0 Free Flight Model Aviation is what I do; not only this business, but I am on the Council and Board of the Flying Aces Club (FAC), I collect and tabulate all FAC “kanones” (contest wins), I run the FAC website, manage the FAC and Cloudbusters Facebook pages, and am one of the Contest Directors for the Cloudbusters contests.\u00a0 You can find me at nearly all of the Cloudbusters Indoor and Outdoor contests, along with the FAC Geneseo and Muncie contests and the AMA Outdoor Nats.<\/p>\n

I am truly appreciative for all of my customers and friends – thank you for these 13 years and however many more there are to come!<\/p>\n

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