Everyone,

I wanted to take a moment to remind the members of how important the next few club meetings are. If you aren’t aware the September meeting is when board member nominations for the following year are accepted. Voting takes place at the October meeting and officers start at the November meeting in their new roles.

This last year TCAF did not have an acting Secretary on the board. Although that may not seem bad, it doesn’t bode well for the future if we cannot get members to step up and be board members. Many of the older members have served on the board in one or more positions for multiple years, they have taken a turn so to speak.

This year, our Treasurer has expressed that he would like to step down after three years, and I would like to step down after two years as President.

To that end, please take a moment to think about serving the club in any one of the board positions. The work is minimal, not much more than attending meetings and performing a few small duties to help the club we all love continue on. This is your chance to lead a great group and make a positive impact.

Thank you,

-m

The July 26th pylon event is cancelled.

Previous events had little to no attendance and the email sent out had little response.

-m

Kenny’s friend Bill, a member of a R/C club in Grand Raipds stopped by on Saturday and brought his helicopter. It truly is a think of beauty. Unfortunately while flying he hit a wrong switch on his transmitter and it went into the weeds. Nothing serious broke expect stripping out a servo control horn.

A few pictures from this months hot dog fly. As usual it was a great night to get club members, family and friends out to the field. Make sure you make it next month! If you want any pictures there is an option to save the original on the site. Let me know if you have any questions.

http://aarondewitt.smugmug.com/Hobbies/TCAF-Hot-Dog-July-2012/24296776_QjRc63

Well it finally happened, one of my planes went in. I think it has been two years since I have had a destructive crash. There have been some hair raising moments but I always managed to make it right. Tonight was a different story. After a nice walk with Rachael and Carmen I thought it would be a nice night to fly at the local school yard. I was about half way through with my first battery when I was going to start practicing a few maneuvers. I went into a loop, on the down side of the loop I tried pulling out. Guess what, absolutely nothing…. I wiggled my elevator stick up and down rapidly but nothing happend. Into the corn went the Mini Ultra Stick. After fetching my plane it looks like my elevator servo went bad. All servos are functioning with out any problems except the ever important elevator servo. I should be able to rebuild the plane with out any issue. The motor is caked in dirt and will need a good cleaning. At least it was not the big slick!