2004 Heli Fun Fly and Competition Big Success!

The TCRCM Helicopter Fun Fly went well this year with a slightly smaller than hoped for turn out. The weather was better than the two previous years. We were going to have it a week latter, but it’s a good thing we didn’t because the weather was much worse the next weekend!

Thirty registered flyers turned out for the event and all seemed to have a great time….except for one young man who crashed (OUCH!) after doing several inverted blade touches on the runway….! Oh well, I guess that’s to be expected when your on the edge of the flight envelope! We also got to see several electric helicopters fly, ranging in size from micro to .90 powered size! The electrics are really coming along. They were very nice machines!

The competitions on Saturday went well also, with winners of all trophies in all classes including Bill Pierce taking first in expert class, second in the drag races and third in the auto contest. Pat O’Neill took first in advanced class, and Shawn Rose took first in the drag races and second in the auto contest. Congratulations to all the winners, you did a great job!

I’d like to take this chance to say thanks to everyone who helped out, you all made the whole thing go very smoothly. Also, all the sponsors without which we would have nothing to give away in the pilots drawings, or the excellent ($850.00) Miniature Aircraft Fury Extreme kit we were able to raffle off. The helpers and the sponsors are probably the two most important things that make it possible to pull these events off, because as I’ve learned in the past three years it takes a serious amount of both preparation work and on field work to have the super nice heli events that we’ve had here these past three years. Thanks again to everyone!!!!!!

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