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Polar Bear Fun Fly

Posted Tue, 01/03/2012 - 4:46pm by Bill Bowen

The TCRCM New Year Fun Fly was held on Saturday December 31, 2011 and was met with sunshine with a cold light wind. Attendance was down some this year but Craig Christensen and Doug Larson each brought their version of hot soup which was more like stew. Gordon Anderson brought Rex Lesher (one of our regional pattern fliers) from Creswell Oregon with him and both flew some pattern demonstrations.

The Model Aircraft Association club was invited and a number of their members attended. Scott Page, the president, Jim Reynolds, Dan Deckert, Gary Jones, and a few others all attended. By the way Scott’s wife makes great cookies. Scott has proposed more partnering for events with the two clubs which I strongly support. A new emphasis for the MAA is increasing model aircraft flying and Scott demonstrated a “W” wing that they will be flying pylon (derby for demolishment) competition with. Looks like a lot of fun.

Brett Bowen did the maiden flight on his Dad’s Habu and even got it to do inverted flat spins for a few rotations before common sense took effect (common sense being his Dad). It was also good to see Mike Bostik at the event and he is recovering well from his chemotherapy.

I do not know about all of you but I need to get started on my winter projects pretty soon so they get done before flying season is here.

Want to wish you all a successful year including no crashes and lots of fun flying.

Bill Bowen
TCRCM President

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2011 Year End and 2012 Starting Events

Posted Fri, 12/09/2011 - 8:13am by Bill Bowen

Polar Bear Fun Fly

The Polar Bear Fun Fly, traditionally held on January 1 of the new year, will be held this year on Saturday, December 31, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM. The schedule change was made due to January 1, 2012 falling on a Sunday. Come and pay your 2012 dues, get your new membership card and enjoy the company. Bring some food to share and have fun.

Annual TCRCM Banquet

The banquet is currently scheduled for Saturday, January 7, 2012 at the Old Country Buffet from 6-8 PM in their party room. If you plan on attending please RSVP to this email by Wednesday, December 21, 2011. The banquet will provide you a chance to say goodbye to Doug Larson before he and wife leave for a yearlong mission to Washington DC.

If you have any questions please call:

Lyle Laughery at 438-1060 or Bill Bowen at 222-4262

Welcome To The Tri-City R/C Modelers

Posted Mon, 06/15/2009 - 10:22pm by admin
After 10 years, the old tcrcm.org web page was getting pretty dated. Newer technology, called Content Management System (CMS) gives a new look and promises to eliminate the webmaster middleman.

Under the old system, if someone had an announcement to post, or an event to report on, they had to create it in something like MS Word, send it to the webmaster, who then had to rewrite it in HTML and publish it onto the website. With CMS, club members with the proper permission can create, edit and publish the content using the tools of the website and without a middleman.

The main menu is in the upper right corner.
Info-- contains the bulk of information on what's happening with Tri-City R/C Modelers. It has special announcements, the President's Corner, meeting minutes, events schedule and event reports, and a variety of articles about a variety of r/c subjects.
Calendar--provides a calendar view of club and other events of interest.
Forums-- a typeical forum-based area where subjects can be broached and others can comment.
Photo Gallery-- an area where members can contribute photos to the galleries for viewing by all.
Weather-- a page of weather information for the area and site.
About-- a page providing an overview and history of Tri-City R/C Modelers.
Click HERE For Site Registration & TCRCM Member Instructions

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January 2012 Leading Edge Newsletter

Posted Sun, 01/01/2012 - 2:25am by sschering

January 2012 Leading Edge Newsletter

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TCRCM is now on Facebook

Posted Fri, 12/30/2011 - 10:46pm by sschering

Are you on Facebook? Come check out our new Facebook page

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MAA invitation to TCRCM: New Years "Chilly Fun fly Chili Feed"

Posted Wed, 12/28/2011 - 7:20pm by sschering

Greetings friends,

The Board of Directors of the Miniature Aircraft Association would like to extend an invitation to all members of the TCRCM that
would like to join the MAA on January 1 for our New Years "Chilly Fun
fly Chili Feed" which will start about 10 AM. There is no cost, just
want more bodies to break the wind. ;-) We'll be serving some Chili
(also no cost) and swapping lies.

MOST IMPORTANT NOTICE: We have no bathrooms. There is one at the park
just North of us. We close our bathrooms down in the winter so they
don’t freeze.

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Next Terrorist Weapon-- Model Airplanes

Posted Fri, 09/30/2011 - 7:26am by Steve Sterling

Read a good on-line news article about the nutcase that was working on a model jet as a terrorist weapon.

At least Fox News was NOT reporting it with hysteria-- Lots of quotes from folks recognizing that retricting model airplane flying or their purchase won't stop anyone that is willing to kill people.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/09/29/could-model-airplanes-be-next-terro...

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Club Drops Columbia Park Site & Insurance

Posted Sun, 05/01/2011 - 3:52pm by admin

At the Feb 16, 2011 club meeting, attending members voted not to renew sponsorship of the secondary flying site located in Columbia Park. The club had been sponsoring the site under the AMA charter site program for several years for its helicopter and park flyer members.

The decision was made based on liability issues for the club, AMA and officers, not due to cost issues. The club had no authority to enforce basic AMA safety rules. 80% of the flyers there were not TCRCM or even AMA members, so no insurance was in effect for them. Yet when someone got hurt, a shyster lawyer could claim that since it was a "chartered" TCRCM/AMA site, we were liable and almost for certain would come after us. Even if we won a lawsuit, the cost of defense would mean BIG lawyer fees. No insurance would be in place to pay for legal defense.

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No Garbage Service

Posted Mon, 07/26/2010 - 6:39pm by Bill Bowen

Reminder-- we do not have garbage service at the field. If you haul it in, you need to haul it out. The City of Richland recently changed their garbage rate schedule and NOW CHARGE $10.00 to drop off any garbage. Previously, Richland residents could drop off at no additonal charge from their monthly residental rate. Not any more.

So please DO NOT leave garbage, broke planes, etc in the trash cans, or we will need to raise the club dues again to pay for garbage service.

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Sticky-- About Combat Flight Simulator

Posted Mon, 12/28/2009 - 10:22am by Steve Sterling

There is quite a contingent of flyers in the Northwest that play Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator (CFS) online during the bad weather months. They schedule dates and times, and "meet" at a host's IP address to battle each other in WW2 simulated warplanes in the skies over Europe. The following is the basics needed to join them.

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