We started our Fun Fly with our business meeting, the main subject of which was to review our proposal to Rockdale County to use the Miller Bottom Landfill as our flying site. Our proposal has been submitted and now we are waiting for a response. Richard Hart has done some great work finding the site and working with all the government officials regarding our proposal.
Meanwhile, back at the tree farm, everyone was pleasantly surprised to find that the large trees along the runway directly opposite the shed are completely gone! I had asked Neil Moon, our landlord, if he could do something about this problem. He said he would. But when I called Neil to thank him for getting things done, he said he had nothing to do with it. So... It looks like we should thank the Tree Farm Gods for doing what they were going to do anyway.
Neil did agree to give us a one year written notice past the expiration of the current lease with the tree farm which is December 31, 2012. So we can be confident that we can use our current field until at least then.
This Fun Fly was particularly noteworthy because so many people volunteered to do so many things to make it successful.
First, John Craig volunteered to cook hamburgers and hot dogs for us and he did a spectacular job. He wound up managing three grills to get the job done. Don Pruitt provided some excellent potato salad and Bob McElroy did a great job with a very good tossed salad. As always we have to thank Don Grissom for his contribution of Little Debbies. That along with the soft drinks provided by Richard Hart and Phil Henry rounded out our lunch.
Brady Wood came through for us by providing raffle items and we wound up raffling two of Brady's airplanes plus other assorted RC stuff. Charles Sully was also kind enough to donate an airplane, complete with electronics, to the raffle. Thank you guys for another great raffle.
We held two flying contests, the carrier landing and the bomb drop. I was fortunate enough to win the carrier landing contest and Mike Arnold won the bomb drop. My thanks to John Aiken who did a great job of judging both contests.
Charles Sully and Dick Crego acting as Best and Worst airplane judges, put a great deal of thought and care into picking the
winners. In the category of Best Airplane, Bob McElroy came in first for his excellent Corsair. It's a truly beautiful rendition of the famous F4U of WWII.
Bob Rowe came in first in the worst airplane category for his innovative scratch built delta winged beauty. Bob builds all his airplanes from scratch and is very innovative in his thinking. He should take a great deal of pride in the efforts he makes in airplane construction. I tried very hard to win the worst airplane contest with my really beat up super stick, but the judges wouldn't hear of it. Bob's airplane just had more battle scars than mine. Battle scars are badges of honor.
Thanks to Bruce Greenwood for doing his always wonderful job of tracking the flow of funds during the Fun Fly and also to Richard Hart and Don Pruitt for the hard work they have been putting in on the lawn mover.
My thanks also to everyone who came out to have a good time. Fun Flys wouldn't be fun if we didn't have members turn out just to enjoy the day.
Here are some pictures taken by Charles Sully. Look for all the pictures he took, plus other pictures taken by John Aiken on the web site soon.
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