Hello Fellow Fliers,

This is a reminder about the November meeting next week Tuesday 9th
at the Park Township Hall, 1464 Ottawa Beach Rd. Repeat, that’s
Tuesday not our usual day earlier, better to not mention that day so
there is no confusion. Bring your wallet! There will be some
modeling items available for sale donated by a former club member
Larry Waters. Items will be broken up into small units to keep the
price as reasonable as possible…proceeds will go into the club
coffers. If any of you have something you can part with to donate to
the sell please feel free to bring it to the meeting.

We have another new member joining the club, Geoff, Williams.
Hopefully he can join us at the meeting so we can have an opportunity
to meet him as flying time grows short at the field. Aaron met him
out at the field the other day, said he flew well and shouldn’t
require training. Aaron posted Geoff’s picture on the website.

Speaking of the field the weather this past month has been phenomenal.
For my interest with thermal gliders it has been the best 30 days of
the year. Since the corn has been picked the combination of exposed
earth, cool nights and rapidly warming days has provided exception
lift opportunities. I have had a number of long flights with my hand
launch glider. Many of my flights have ranged from 7 minutes to my
current record of 21 minutes, 37 seconds. There is also the advantage
of an easy walk to go get your plane when it lands off the field.
Fortunately I have only had on major trek out there this year to
retrieve a little combat foamie. I hope others have taken the
opportunity to get out and fly this past October it has been pretty
quiet the days I have been there. That is to say not many pilots at
the field…not quiet just because I either fly without motors or use
electric power. That I call peaceful.

Please go to the website for details of the meeting Tuesday. There is
a link to click for directions provided by MapQuest to Park Township
Hall. To find our site type in http://www.TulipCityAirForce.com

See you at the meeting Tuesday and don’t forget if you would like to
get your membership paid up and out of the way before the end of the
year this is a good opportunity Tuesday.

Regards,

Larry Weller – Vice President Tulip City Air Force

Please help me welcome our newest club member Geoff Williams. I had the pleasure of meeting him at the field last night. He was flying his nitro powered Avistar.

Get out and enjoy the last few weeks of our flying season. The field is in great shape, the corn is down and the air is ripe for punching holes through.

Fellow TCAF Members,

We will be auctioning off RC equipment after the November 9th meeting.

Larry Waters, a former club member come to my house Friday and gave me all his RC equipment. He and his son Andy had given up RC aircraft flying some time back. His request is that the equipment be auctioned off to the membership and the proceeds go to the club. Larry has fond memories of past auctions when members bid at auction on items donated to the club.

Items to be auctioned include: 2 electric foamies with brushed motors, 1 foamie kit, 1 Balsa USA glider kit, 5 FM radio TX’s, many FM receivers, Monocote, flight boxes (2), battery chargers, electric motor, glow engine (over heated needs repair), building equipment, balsa material. All kinds of hardware including wheels, motor mounts push rods, etc. etc. etc. Books and manuals. Lots of other stuff.

So come to the November meeting with lots of cash in your pocket to purchase as many items as you might want. Come early so you can look over the items and plan your bidding strategy. I’m looking forward to seeing a large member turnout for this event.

Thank you Larry for your thoughtfulness and your generosity.

Jerry Timmer
TCAF Secretary

A few pictures of the guys flying on a beautiful fall morning.

October Morning Flying 2010

Check out the new pictures page! You can get to it by selecting the pictures link on the right hand side of the webpage. Thanks to Tom for taking some great pictures over the course of the summer.