The Fly Paper

November 1999 If you have access to this on the WEB and are still getting it by U.S. MAIL we need to know, send an email to Eschlumber@aol.com. It saves a bunch of time and money.

RENEW YOUR AMA AND CLUB MEMBERSHIP NOW!!!!!!!! Up Coming Events to plan for: This one is a MUST!!!

Nov 20  Toys for Tots Fun Fly (AMA Sanctioned) Rain day Nov 21 - This is open to all flying. An entrance fee of a  New Toy  valued at least $10. Or a Donation of cash or check  for the same. This Annual Event has had a great turnout in the past  supporting The U.S.M.C.Toys for Tots program.
100% goes to TFT program. A day of FUN, plan on flying in a balloon bust, a climb and glide, and a limbo contest.

Dec 12th  Arrive about 6pm. Annual Christmas Dinner - A great time to spread the Seasons cheer, The last years have proved to be a really Fun time with good food and a steal a gift aftermath. Location is same as last year," The Gathering Place" Peachtree City, Ga. Next to the Ampitheater. A small cover charge will be required. ONE NOT TO MISS!!! Bring the family. PLEASE let Ernie know who's coming.

NO MEETING DECEMBER - MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM THE TEAM MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL TIME  deadline January 1, 2000  see the new bylaws.

Ken Cashion and Ernie Schlumberger at Our May Electric sailplane event, which was sponsored by, mike McGowan.

Ken Cashion, a member of the sponsoring Ozone R/C Club and LES (League for Electric Soaring) founder, extended an invitation to the event while on his visit here for our sanctioned Electric Sailplane Contest last May. Earl # 007, Chuck #008 and Ernie # 010 are all members of the LES flight achievement program. Once again, Congratulations!

Meeting Minutes: October 28^th, 1999 by Ernie Schlumberger

President Tommy Vinci brought the meeting to order at 7:30p.m. There were 18 members and 3 membership applicants in attendance at the old Fayette High School. Tommy began with a special report that a fellow member had passed away. Jerry McCall passed away on October 18^th, 1999. Jerry’s friendship and help at all the fun flys will be sorely missed. Our deepest sympathy goes out to Jerry’s family.

Treasurer Roy Collins went over the finances for the month. We had total expenses of $621.74 (which includes fun flys, contests, Bulldog Johnny and field maint.), no income from dues, which left $983.08 in checking. The total of all accounts is now at $6,363.70.

Youth Coordinator Dave Zeigler told about a letter he had received from the AMA headquarters offering him a job with the AMA to put together a program to teach kids the fundamentals of how an aircraft flies. Dave went out to the AMA headquarters where they rolled out the red carpet for him and gave him the grand tour of the facilities. He graciously declined their offer of a job but has agreed to help them with the kids program by building some teaching aids and putting together a written program for the teachers to follow.

Tommy Vinci awarded Jaye Tomlinson with a Nite Fly patch for successfully completing a flight during last months Nite Fly after the meeting.

Tommy then gave an update on the club’s progress in the L.E.S. (League for Electric Soaring) program. Currently half of all members of the L.E.S. are in our club. Earl Robinson #007, Chuck Robinson #008, Randy Hawkins #009, Ernie Schlumberger #010, Hank Frese #011, Tommy Vinci #013, Clare Schlumberger #015 (first lady of L.E.S.)[and official cloud chaser], and now Bill Divens #016. #017 was just issued to someone in England. Now L.E.S. is international.

VP Randy Hawkins went over the upcoming Toys for Tots Fun Fly on Saturday, November 20^th. Mike McGowan is the contest director and the event is sanctioned with the AMA. There will be a $10 donation (or new toy) required as a landing Fee. The club will need volunteers to help with parking lot detail, radio impound, and refreshment stand duties. We plan to have door prizes to raffle off, paintball event, maybe a candy drop and some combat flying too. Also, we would like to ask all members to check around their model shops and see if there are any kits or accessories (New in Box) laying around not being used that you would like to donate to the cause. Contact one of the officers if you would like to volunteer to help with setup or donate anything. Randy then showed off this month’s Model Aviation magazine with Earl Robinson’s picture in it from the NATS competition. He was holding Chuck’s sailplane at the time.

Next up were the yearly nominations for club officers. Roy Collins announced that he was not running for treasurer again. Dave Zeigler was nominated and seconded and agreed to run for treasurer. No other nominations were made for the positions of treasurer, secretary, vice president or president. The current officers were re-nominated and seconded and agreed to perform their current positions for another year.

Stan McCullough asked for the website frequency use chart to be updated. It was agreed to update it as soon as possible when the club renewal is completed. Also, the club officers are looking into re-keying the front gate lock and sending out new keys again at the end of December. After some open discussion about the cost of the keys, it seemed there was no objection to re-keying.

This month we welcomed three new members: Jake Veilleux, Fred Smith and Mike Worth. Please welcome these new members and help them out if you see them at the field.

Broken Prop Award: None though several incidents were mentioned, none made it to claim this Months Title. Though Ernest and Julian made it to the top of the list, Ernest has his big yellow Extra flying again and Julian will see the British Hawker in the air again one way or the other. [Hey, Ernest and Julian, hmmmm maybe and idea about Vineyard flying?]