Winter Flying & Our RC Club Neighbors
As we reported in our special edition newsletter the weather has not kept some of us from flying.
The Geneva RC Club F.L.A.P.S. invited us to join them for their indoor funfly event at the
Marcus Whitman High School gym. Some members also took part in their winter outdoor flying
event at the F.L.A.P.S. field.
This was a great oportunity for us to get to know our neighboring club a little better. This is
another aspect as to just how great this hobby of ours really is, to get togeather with modelers
from other clubs! Also, lest we forget, some of the members of the F.L.A.P.S. club helped cler
rocks for our new flying field.
The staff and I here at the HAWK’s NEST agree that we, the Canandaigua C.H.I.E.F.S., should
broaden relationships with other clubs like the F.L.A.P.S.
We hope that the C.H.I.E.F.S. can consider ways to bring this about at future club meetings.
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RC Groups.Com
This is a fairly new addition to the multitude of websites out there on the internet devoted to the
RC hobby. I explored this site and found it to be, some what to my suprise, really pretty good.
The main tabs at the top of their home page are for RC Airplanes, Boats, and Cars. In the
airplane section you can filter (sort) on All, Fuel, Electric, or Sailplanes. They also have filters
for My RC Groups, where you can identify only the groups you have an interest in. They also
have filters for Calendar, Gallery, Members, and Search.
Some of the discussion groups in the airplane fuel section include Engines, Giant Scale, 1/2 A
Planes, Fun Flyers, Jets, Scale Modeling, to name a few.
I explored the Scale Modeling group and got a chance to e-mail back and forth with a guy from
Quebec Canada, who was displaying the work he had done on a 103” WS DH Beaver. I got a DH
Beaver kit with floats included for X-Mass and i wanted to get some input from someone who has
worked on building a scale model of this airplane. Mine is a 72” WS kit from Unionville Hobby
Supply, P.O. Box 135, Markham Ontario, Canada L3P3J5. The chance to have this kind of a
direct exchange with someone in the hobby I found to be helpfull and rewarding.
It appeared to me that this site had alot to offer and the Staff and I here at the HAWK’S NEST
agree it would be well worth a look.
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