Nathan Mallory – Latest Team FlexPro Ace

Nathan Mallory

Nathan Mallory with his birds

The second Ace to grace Team FlexPro is quite the young man who just turned nine years old; Nathan Mallory.  Though flying seriously for only seven months, he has not only impressed and won over Team FlexPro leader Sean Whitney; but the grizzled sceptics that run FlexPro.
   

At ease with either planes or heli, Nathan is making an aggressive study of the Align 500.  Perhaps the only thing stranger than watching such a young talent literally tear a hole in the sky; is to see us older men (we are being so generous with that term) acting like so many vulture’s staring in row, as we ogle his skill and speed.   It’s eerie… but it’s almost like he doesn’t ever, ever crash….

In a bow to Admiral Rickover, who said, “Get ’em Young, and Train ‘em Right”, Nathan started simulator work before flying; beginning with Real Flight 4.0, before switching to Phoenix just a few months ago.   Just before Christmas of last year Nathan started out flying an Air Havoc, but then quickly progressed to an E-Flite CX2.
 

By the time of the Brooks, Oregon Flyin in May, Nathan was flying an E-Flite Blade 400 3D.  A month later he had buddy boxed a 600 nitro with Kenny McDonald and Shawn Whitney.   Oh… for those of us who have had a tendency to get complicant about watching his stunning aerial stunts when he flys the Align 500… keep in mind he’s only been flying this bird for about a month!

This will be a young man to watch .

Nathan Mallory with his Stryker