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Upcoming
Events
The Climb and Glide Event
will be held on May 26, 2001. The entry fee will be $10.00 per Class.
Registration: 7:00-7:45.
Pilot’s meeting at 7:45am. Flying will start at 8:00 am. Come join us for
a day of flying excitement! Rules and regulations can be found under
Event
Schedule in the menu bar.
Libby Army Air Field
Flying
The last opportunity to fly
at the Libby Army Airfield until next approved schedule will be May 12,
2001. All those interested will meet at the parking lot next to the Libby
Field Tower at 0800 hrs. Latecomers will have to wait until 0900 hrs for
an escort. Come Join The Fun!
Next MMRCC Club Meeting
The next meeting of the MMRCC
is scheduled for May 3, 2001 at the TRW facility (Highway 90 Bypass) Personnel
are required to sign-in and sign out for security purposes.
FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK
While TDY at Fort Bliss, Texas,
I had the good fortune to meet up with a group of military
personnel
involved in the R/C hobby. They
fly in a big open (although a bit dusty) field right behind the motor pool
where they work. Their air force consisted of a Great Planes Extra 300S
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a
P51 Mustang and a couple of trainers. The day they were flying was quite
windy. One of the trainers was demolished when a gust of wind sent
it reeling as it came in for a landing. The heavier and larger models seem
to handle the windy conditions without any problems. The question is; is
it wise to fly in such conditions? I know I’ll probably get razzed about
this but as for me I think I rather be a fair weather pilot. Anyway these
guys could really fly well and the camaraderie of the group was great.
On Saturday April 14th, I
ventured down to Libby Field to check out the membership enjoying what
I call perfect flying weather. The day was magnificent! I brought with
me a couple of my aircraft to try and do a little flying, hone my very
limited skills. The day before (Friday) I began to get everything ready.
I charged the batteries on the aircraft, I charged the battery on the radio,
I charged the battery for the starter and got set for the fun to follow.
Quite a few of the members showed up to enjoy the day. In a lull in the
flying I decided to prep my aircraft for flying and that’s when I found
out that although the day was great for flying I wasn’t quite ready. I
had forgotten to charge my glow plug clips. Moral of the story, make sure
you are really ready when you come to the field to fly. Even with
this turn of events all was not lost. I had a great time watching and getting
pointers from everybody I had a chance to talk to I especially enjoyed
Chip Hyde testing his racer. This was my first experience seeing
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I
have to hand it to Chip; he can really handle that aircraft.
Tom Fenn brought out his newly acquired
heli and was out there for a while, showing his flying technique.
Jerry Mingo was busy with a new
student. Lesley Wolslagel had a few tense moments when he lost control
of his aircraft. With the help of Jerry Mingo they were able to bring the
model down without any damage. The cause of the failure was an aileron
that became stuck. All in all everybody had a good time.
FOR YOUR INFO
AMA Membership Benefits.
(Quote from Model Aviation
magazine)
Through the Outlook Vision program,
which AMA promotes to members, one can reduce the cost of eyewear purchases,
saving out-of-pocket money.
One member reported, “I saved $68.25
on my eyeglasses over what my company’s group health insurance paid. Since
my wife also got new glasses, there was an additional savings of $73.75.
The Outlook Vision discount card cost $6.95 a year. When you subtract that
minute cost from the total savings, I ended up with $135.05 in my pocket.
That’s at least worth two free AMA memberships. Thanks AMA for the added
value of AMA membership!”
The card application is available
on the AMA Web site, www.modelaircraft.org,
under “Membership Services” Click on “AMA
documents in PDF format” print document number 502.
Happy Flying!
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