Make-A-Wish Edition

AMA Charter # 556
Founded 1957
PLANE TALK
Volume 20 Issue 9
September 2009
Lancaster County Radio Control Club, Inc.
www.lcrcc.us
Make-A-Wish Edition
This is the picture that appeared in the Penney Saver, or at least one my wife took. From left to right, Phillip Adams, Robin Church, Craig Peck, Robin Renzetti, Henry Adams, Hrayr Avakian, Jim Wiker, Walter Berko, Nick
Upton, Victor Hugo, Jim Snyder, and Jeff Troy. A motley crew if I’ve ever seen one.
Meeting Notice
When: Thursday September 4th at 7pm.
Where: LCRCC flying field - RAIN OR
SHINE
Agenda: Business meeting, election of
Officers
Picture right, Hrayr and Phillip attempt to show Ann
Ash how to fly a plane Jeff Troy brought out. For
those of you that don’t think women should be flying,
this wasn’t a problem. She finally handed the plane
off when she had enough. It was interesting while it
lasted.
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Club Calendar
Unless otherwise specified all meetings will be held at the field
Thursday September 4th, 7pm - Rain or Shine
Meeting in the clubhouse
Sunday September 14th, 1pm - Rain or Shine
Corn Roast, ‘bring a dish to pass’
Sunday September 21st
Build & Fly? — To be discussed at the meeting on
the 4th.
Thanks to all that came out and braved the heat, yes it
was a scorcher. Although the event was well attended,
people didn’t stay long, probably due to the heat. But,
all in all, everyone had a great time.
Ken Allen Slotnick, who DJ’d for WLAN in the 60’s
and 70”s was our M/C. Gee, I remembered him when I
was young, eons ago!
FOX 43 came out to do an article on the event. They
even got to film Paul Quinn, the president and general
manager of channel 8 doing a touch and go for the
crowd.
Roy Bender gives some would-be flyers a chance at
flying. I’m sure some of those that flew will be at the
meeting in September to see what they need to do to
learn to fly.
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Minutes from meeting 8/6/09
Meeting called to order at 7:04
Minutes were approved as posted
New members: None. Jake Reed visited, his father is a pilot for Southwest Airlines, and is currently
serving in the military.
Treasurer report: Funds up.
Central Penn: Nothing, their meeting is in September.
Events:
Make-A-Wish: Working on getting Channel 8 out, Penney Saver to come out next week for the article.
Bullseye will be the food vendor, French Fries, funnel cake, and Italian ice. Ken Allen
Slotnick, a radio announcer from the 60’s and 70’s (WLAN radio), will do MC the event.
Hrayr to get name tags, so the public will know who we are.
Community Days: Vic Hugo is the point man for this event. We can bring planes in between 8-8:30 Saturday and
Sunday morning, but we won’t be able to park at the lot close to our display. We will have to
unload, and park at another location. Some suggestions were to have someone there to help
unload or share the parking pass. Jim Wiker to send out an email asking for volunteers to man
the displays.
Field Marshall: Field is getting green again. Thanks to the road gang for their help with spreading out the stones.
Watch for the sinkhole on the North side of the runway, close to where the grass is dumped. This
area will be marked to keep someone from accidentally falling in.
Safety Officer: Be careful when using the safety benches. Rick cautioned about landing in the pit area.
Fence needs to be put back up at the entrance to the pit area, to discourage visitors from walking
into this area.
Newsletter: Ok.
Website: Ok, Craig still looking for someone to take this over.
Old business: Bylaw revisions were put on hold until the next meeting because of some further changes and
additions to the bylaws. It was thought, that instead of voting on the revisions that were listed in
the previous minutes, and voting for other changes next month, that we’d wait and vote for all the
changes at once. Those changes and additions were emailed out to avoid taking up so much room
in the newsletter
New business: Picnic tables need replaced, a board fell off one of the picnic tables during the open house/picnic.
Even though the tops can be replaced, the rest of the tables are still in bad shape. Membership
voted to replace the tables with new 8’ tables. New tables will be bought before Make-A-Wish.
New logo’s were presented to the membership.
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Nominations for officers were:
Peter Caddick – President
Victor Hugo – Vice President
Craig Peck – Vice President
Walter Breko – Treasurer
Jim Wiker – Secretary
Bob Heine was recognized for his hard work as treasurer for the past years. Great job Bob, and thanks!
50/50 none
Respectfully submitted,
Jim Wiker
Then there was Steve Lapp, the skydiver from a parachuting club in Maytown. He claimed to have jumped
over 6,000 times.
It doesn’t make any sense why someone would jump out
of a perfectly good airplane. Then there was the wild
maneuvers of the Cessna 182 that followed him down!
Many thanks to all that participated! Special thanks to
Ken Allen Slotnick for donating his time, to Hidden
Hangar for their donations for the silent auction.
Thanks to Ann Mead Ash for her article in the Penney
Saver. To Steve Lapp from the Maytown Sport Parachute Club for the demonstration for the crowd, and the
pilot of the Cessna, that we thought was going to crash.
Thank you to the club for stepping up and doing your
part to ensure this years Make-A-Wish went off without a hitch. You persevered through a very hot day to
make this event enjoyable for a lot of people. If you
think it was in vain, then read the two letters on the
next page.
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She is why we do what we do. Her name is Sarah, and
she came out to the field to watch. She said she went
to Disney World because of Make-A-Wish.
My wife even tried her hand at flying, which didn’t go
well.
We received two letters that the members should see.
From: Steve McFarland <[email protected]>
Date: August 27, 2009 8:24:06 AM EDT
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Make a Wish
Reply-To: <[email protected]>
I wanted to write about your Make a Wish Fly in. My son Alex and I attended and we both had a great time. We both had a chance to fly
on a buddy box with Rick, and we really enjoyed it. Thanks to Rick for allowing us to enjoy his airplane and great instruction. The flyovers and skydiver were fun to watch. Thanks for putting on such a fun show for a good cause. I look forward to coming back again.
Steve McFarland
Craig,
Thank you for sending the pictures, they are terrific and helped me prove to my doubting Thomas Smoketown friends
that I did a touch and go at the model airplane field :o)
You should be proud of organizing such a worthwhile event. I'm sure the Make a Wish folks appreciated your efforts. Glad I could be a part of the event, thanks again for the invitation.
Onward and upward
Paul Quinn
WGAL President/ General Manager
717-735-7201 Office
717-572-8818 Cell
[email protected]
This was our only mishap. The gear in the elevator servo
stripped and the Hots went into the corn field.
By the way, if anyone would like a slightly used plane, it’s
available, free. I’ll give you the plans so you can re-construct
it. No engine or electronics, but you can have the rest (plus the
bad servo).
Email or call me [email protected] (682-7175)
Happy flying,
Jim
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