President—Harry Hill (909) 795-1104    Vice President—Tom Widmer (909) 984-8412     

Treasure--Rick Ogden (909) 624-5683

 Secretary/newsletter/web master --Richard D. Rittmiller (909) 984-0583

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                       Start Time: 09:16                                                                                Members in attendance: 21

 

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Secretary Report.        

More updates on the web page. Need articles to place in web page, building tips, product reports etc. etc.

             We will be installing the “OK to solo green sticker” on members ID cards from now on, the stickers are at the field with the club “Solo flight committee” to pass out at the field. Everybody needs to have one on their club ID card and each member needs to be looking for them on other members, and guests, cards as well.

            We have been invited to join with the MARKS club for the Redlands airport open house on May 06.

Mr. Hill, Mr. Bass, Mr. Ogden, Mr. Bright and myself will be their to represent the club, and several other members whose names I don’t remember, Sorry, and hopefully draw more interest in our club and hobby.  

               As I have been saying in the last couple of newsletters if you have not received your membership card it could be one of several reasons, wrong or NO AMA membership number, wrong address or name spelling on your info card, and I could have possibly just missed it, any way contact me and I will fix this problem.

 Club meeting itinerary:      This is a new feature to the club newsletter so give me your feed back on this.

This will be discussed at the next meeting.

 

1.      Heli pad installation crew and date.

2.      Redlands airport fly in. Results

3.      Next years AMA convention in Ontario . Who will attend and the club banner for the display booth.

4.      Float fly, sign up to help out.

5.      Water to the field.

6.      Weed abatement.

7.      Club swap meet.

8.      Trainer race.

Up Coming events:                         

                                                                           May 06   Redlands airport open house.

                                                            May 13   Club swap meet, club field.

                                                            May 21   Trainer race, club field.

Old Business.        If you look closely at the AMA convention picture in the AMA’s Model Aviation magazine for April 2006 index page, and the larger picture on page 18 – 19, you can see our booth in the lower left hand corner being manned by Mr. Bright, just to the left of the Batteries America sign, shown talking to a potential member. Does this mean we need to ask for Mr. Bright’s autograph?  

            Well we had our first Thursday night meeting at Taco Joes, it was also the club auction, and I have not heard any feed back on the location and the time so it must be working?  

We will be installing the “OK to solo green sticker” on members ID cards from now on, I will be bringing them to the field this coming up Sunday, 02Mar06, and giving them to the club  “Solo flight committee” to pass out at the field. Everybody needs to have one on their club ID card and each member needs to be looking for them on other members, and guests, cards as well.

            We have been invited to join with the MARKS club for the Redlands airport open house on May 06.

 This is the email letter that Harry Hill sent out for feed back on this.

 Hello everyone,

           I have been talking with Andreas Blaser, the Vice President of the MARKS club regarding the Redlands Fly-in.  

The MARKS club has asked us to join them in participating at the Redlands Fly-in, They, the MARKS club, are getting the required sanctions and made contact with the City of Redlands regarding a program which will include flying and static displays, last years fly-in was very successful but will be much better with both clubs working together, sharing flying time and teaching the public about the RC hobby.

Andreas has submitted a program to the city that includes multiple ten minute slots of flying demonstrations throughout the day. I would like a couple of our pilots participating in the IMAC demonstrations, there will also be some helicopter demonstrations that we can participate in. There will be a time for war birds of both wars and a demonstration of small electrics with about ten airborne at once doing stunts.

 If any of our members are interested in representing our club either with static planes or flying please let me know as soon as possible. We will also need members who want to man a booth or help in the pits. This event will be on the weekend of May 06th and is already on our calendar and will be a great chance for our club to help present our hobby to the public. Please call any of our members who don't get e-mail and ask them if they want to be involved. I will need to know by next week if you would like to fly or participate in any way so that I can get with Andreas and get all the flying slots filled between the members of the two clubs.

Thank You All,
Harry Hill, President, AMAA  

Also this Email letter was sent out by Mr. Bass.

 Hello All,

        I would like to put out to our members that we need some support for this years Redlands Fly-In Sat. May 6th 2006.        

        I am not to sure who has let Harry know if they can, or can not, attend but last year was not so good for our club, I thought. We only had just a few of us show up with just a hand full of planes, it made our club look kinda bad, I thought.  We are teaming up with the Marks club and we don’t want to, well, get shown up again this year plus we will have flying time and as far as I know there are still time slots to fill up. 

         If you can not make it please say something to Harry or Me and if you want to get in on it also let us know and if you want to fly let us know

what you want to fly and what Channel you are on so we can get that info to Andreas at MARKS.  

        Andreas is working real hard on getting our Clubs together this year for this, in fact, he has done almost all the work as far as I can see with talking to the City of Redlands getting us flying time slots through out the day etc. etc. the least we can do is show up and help out and have loads of fun.  

        you can see what Andreas has already at this web address:

http://www.rcmarks.com/NewsLetters/Redlands%20Fly-In%20Detail%20Program.pdf

 and he has a forum set up just for this fly-in where you can go to post any questions regarding the event, like if there is anything you can do to help out with, here is that link:

http://s122182881.onlinehome.us/tinc?key=joOV6bgK&start=-1&reverse=1.  

        Last year was fun there where many Planes to look at including a P-51 that flew in and Heli rides and Plane rides (For a Price) and from what I understand this year is going to be even better. They are saying a military fly over and more.  

        There is Breakfast (small Fee) and Lunch (Also a Small Fee) put on at the Airport.   AGAIN PLEASE let us know Yes or No we need a great turn out this year from the club members.

 Thanx

Rick Bass  

        I could not have said it any better myself. So come on people, we, need to step up to the plate and make this thing work for us. This helps us by giving the club positive publicity, possibly new members, connections with city administration and comradery between the clubs, which can not hurt our club.

New Business.   Mr. Wilson sprayed weed killer around the flying field and pit area. Let’s give him a BIG thank you for doing that.

 

Speaking of the weeds we will be setting up a date for field maintenance again to get ride of the weeds and to finish sealing the runway and applying the white cross stripes on the ends of the runway. We need Asphalt driveway sealant and driveway crack patch material donated to the club to finish up the runway, approx 20+ cans of sealant should do it and what is left over, if any, can be stored for later use. We also will need several can of White strip spray or brush on paint for the “X’s” that need to be applied at the ends of the runway.

 

Safety netting repair. It was decided to purchase more orange safety netting to be placed behind the old green torn up netting so that both can help retain runaway aircraft better and it is more visible.

 

The web site has a “For Sale” “Wanted” section, along with this newsletter, so if you would like to sell anything or are looking for something just contact me either at the field, by phone or by E-Mail. The information I would need is:

1.      What it is you are selling, Description.

2.      How much you are asking/willing to take for it.

3.      Pictures.

4.      A way to contact you.

The club gets 10% of all sales.

 

            The paperwork to amend to the club by-laws club membership limit was presented and voted on at the last meeting. The amendment has past so the club By-laws will now show a 120 member limit. The amended By-law page is included with your newsletter so you can replace the old page with the new one.

            Speaking of By-laws we have a bunch of new members and I don’t remember if I sent you the club By-laws with your membership package so if I did not send you one you can go to the club website and down load it or If you can’t do that contact me and I will mail you one. Thanks. 

Event Report:   We had the Trainer races for April but I can’t report on them as I have not received a race report from the race organizers only thing I now for sure is that I came in fourth.

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New member(s).    Kevin downs, Jason Van Every, let’s give them a warm welcome aboard.

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Soloed Pilot(s):      None this month.

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Model of the Month.  None this month.

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Raffle.   None this month.

Meeting ended.   09:36

Next meeting will be on Sunday, May 13 at 9:00am at the club field.

     L8r’s Richard D. 

               My Phone # (909) 984-0583    My Email address: ramboamt@earthlink.net