ARCA’s Big Bird Raffle will have 3 winners;
the Super Cub winner, the RC Toolbox winner, and one year free club membership to the club member who sells the most tickets.
Click here to see the flyer ---------Let the contest begin:---------- Tom and Donnie sold a bunch of tickets at the Warbirds. Remember you guys can sell your tickets and more at the Jet event next month. What ever you sell at these events count toward your total. If you guys work hard you can sell more tickets than Donnie. There is a free one year membership at stake. The number of sold tickets turned in as of April 28th is; Donnie = 426 Robin = 168 Cliff = 106 Doug Knelle = 92 Tom = 68 Robert Butler = 60 Fred Placke = 45 Loyd = 30 Pat Duffy = 20 |
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April 27, 2008: ARCA's WAR BIRD Event
April 25&26 1. Open flying was declared on Friday due to the slow arrival of pilots . b. Saturday was warbirds only no winds and lots of sun shine and lots of flying. c. Sunday we had high winds and rain. 2. Number of pilots – 38 3. Awards; a. Pilots choice – PT-17 flown by Robert Jones. Reason most given, scale flying. b. Best of Show – Fokker D7 flown by Keith Coover. c. Trainer Raffle winner – Rodney Harmon (ticket # 780318) Past club member in training but without a trainer. 4. Supporting Vendors; a. Round Rock Hobbies – donated many items for door prizes and discount price for trainer raffle. Had sales table on site. b. Power Master Fuels – donated two cases of fuel. c. Power House Batteries – donated two batteries (4.8v 1700ma nimh receiver batteries). Had sales table on site. d. Blazing Wing Hobbies – 10 $25 discount coupons (none chosen by door prize winners) e. Fox Mfg – discount coupons received from Ken White from Jet Event (none chosen by door prize winners), leftover f. Radio South – discount coupons received from Ken White from Jet Event (none chosen by door prize winners), leftover g. Bobs Scale Documentation – discount coupons from Ken White from Jet Event (not chosen by door prize winners), leftover 
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Thank you guys for sharing the following pictures of the event with us, THEY ARE GREAT!!!!!!
To see these pictures of the War Birds Event, click here.---------
Here are some more great pictures and VIDEOS from wyliewarbirds.com, click here.
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Ashley Hartman sent in these photos that he took out at the field. They are great, thanks. I am not so sure about the last photo. I bet that one has been doctored up. April 21 
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Today was a grand day out at the field... If you guys did not come out to the field to race or just watch, you missed a GREAT DAY. The weather was great, a lot of pilots and spectators. Fun for all. Click on photo or below to see race results. http://www.nmpra.org/event_results/ARCA-April-2008.htmlApril 5 |
 Wednesday March 26th Work Party. Patrick Callan donated the storage container which is now located next to the concession stand to the club...This is going to be a god save to our club trainers. This should minimize their hanger rash.. Pat, Loyd, Dick, Philip and I know there were more helping, but I have just had a senior moment-------- we washed down the back wall and rewired the concession stand and run power to the new storage container. We plan to install lights, storage bins, a work bench and hangers for the planes in the shed. Thanks again Pat. |
 Wednesday March 12th Work Party. We installed the wide gate between the pavilion and the pit area so the flyers with the big birds can get to the pit area without getting hanger rash. We will later install a concrete sidewalk between the pit area and the pavilion. Thanks a lot to the guys who came out to help. You did a great job!!!! March 12, 2008 |
Here is the latest picture for the Central TX forum... You guys would have had a blast up in Waco! Don't forget we will be having our own Club 40 Racing Event coming up this April 5, 2008 out at our field. Click here to see the flyer March 1,2008 |
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For 2008, Lets take a kid to an Air Museum Send me your pictures of your visit with your kids or grandkids in them and we will post them on the WEB so all their friends can see them. ----- Monday 2/25/08 I took my grandson Christen to the Lone Star Flight Museum in Galveston. Here are some pictures we took. For more pictures click here. 
March 7, 2008:
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We work a little and then we play a lot. We worked installing the new helicopter landing pads out at the field. After a good rain the top of the pads will settle down to the ground level. We will be putting up flags around the landing pad as well as the pilot pad to keep vechicles off them. It will be up to the pilots when they are through flying to put the flags back up to warn drivers not to drive on the pads as they will distroy them. After we put the pad down we did a little flying 
Feb 06,2008
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What a beautiful day to fly!!!! January 27, 2008: |
| Dec. 25, 2007: Amazing what a German can do with a spare chain saw engine! This is either one brave guy or??? but it's pretty cool, click on the following link. http://www.dailymotion.com:80/video/x3pj1w_helicoptere-personnel_extreme |
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RC JETS CAN DO 3D ALSO!!!!
Model jet videos are usually a little ho hum for me because after the high
speed passes and the obligatory slow roll and loop you've pretty much seen it all. But this is amazing!
http://www.flixxy.com/rc-plane-mig29.htm.
I went looking for the actual website.
http://www.filippo-materazzi.it/ .
and if you go there you get a
basic home page and no where else to go if you're using Firefox. You need to use the MS Internet Explorer browser.
The site is relatively slow, but there are lots more videos to explore. Stan |
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ARCA's
PHOTO
GALLERY Where you can view all the current flying event pictures and those of the past. I
started it with the Big Bird and the Helicopter events of 2007 and will continue it on into 2008. To view these pictures,
click here.
You can copy and save any of these pictures to your computer where you can print them or e-mail them to a friend. |
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