News

On January 26, 2010, Guinness World Records awarded Axel Hache of the Dominican Republic and David Shulman of the USA the new world record for fastest remote controlled jet powered model aircraft when they piloted their turbine powered rc plane to an average of 337.18 MPH.  The jet was flown at the Hobbyland airfield in the Dominican Republic on January 17, 2010, and achieved a maximum speed of 345.23 MPH down wind.  The record breaking plane is a JMP Firebird equipped with an AMT Olympus HP turbine engine generating over 50Lbs of thrust. 

Now for the bad news.  AMA rules (link to rules) stipulate that turbine powered aircraft shall not exceed 200 MPH and turbine engines shall not exceed 45lbs of static thrust. Also the PVMAC strictly prohibits the use of turbine powered aircraft at our fields.  So unfortunately, I don't think we will be seeing any record breaking attempts at our local fields.  Congratulations though to Axel and David though for their accomplishment.  Check out the video below, it's unreal and the plane is way too fast for my thumbs.

The 8th Annual Model Airplane News Expo is coming to the Pomona Firplex on March 20-21st.  The Model Airplane Expo is part of the Radio Control Expo which also includes the International Diecast colectors Expo. The show will feature nonstop flying demonstrations, rc car racing of all types, and tanks that will battle head to head. The Scale Squadron of Southern California will again host this years battle of the Builders Static Scale Contest, where builders show off their scale RC aircraft models for a chance to win cash prizes.  I have confirmed that admission to the show is FREE for AMA members!  Just bring your AMA membership card.  For non AMA members, there is a discount coupon on the RCX website. If your interested in displaying your RC plane in the static scale contest please contact PVMAC Board member Sam Wright for details.

 It is with great sadness that I report that Jim Giffin, our newley elected Distrixt X VP who won the position in a close race last year, has passed away. This was posted on the AMA website earlier this week.

Many of you Know Steve Parola from either Hobby Club USA or as one of our PVMAC board members.  What you may not know is that Hobby Club USA, a local Hobby Shop in Ontario, CA, is moving and has closed its current Monte Vista Location.  However, This Saturday, January 30th at 7am,  Steve is going to re-open for a "BIG Parking Lot Moving  Sale".  He also says that his new store will re-open on Feb 2nd and will be located at 10820 Centra Ave, Ontario, Ca 91762. Click  HERE to open the flyer. 

The 2010 AMA Expo has passed and for the second year in a row, the PVMAC had a booth there. Like last year, this year was a big success for the PVMAC.  The volunteers at the PVMAC booths were able to sign up 17 new members and 33 membership renewals.  The volunteers were also hard at work selling raffle tickets, and the work payed off as the sales of tickets were up dramatically from last year.  This year, 3 PVMAC members were lucky enough to win a raffle prize.  Member Victor Noiron won an O.S.61, Jim Sout won a Hangar 9 Extra 260, and Joe Augion won a Saito FA-125A.  Non members also took home some great prizes; Kali Fogel won a JR9303 Radio, Steven Penn won a Hangar 9 P-51, Bob Thorugood won the FS-One Flight Sim, and Lucky Tom Kelly, purchasing just one ticket, won the Desert Aircraft DA-50-R. 

The PVMAC would Like to send a huge thanks to Dave Johnson from Desert Aircraft for donating DA-50-R, and to Horizon Hobby for their contribuitions to our raffle. We would like to also thank Chuck Pozone, Manual Rodrigues, Charlie Mitchell, Frak Harris, jim Stout, Thomas Marcure, Roy Barringer, Jose Brea, Antone Van and Beth, Kyle and Phil Goodwine for dedicating all or part of your weekend to this event.

It was stated at the January club meeting that because of the success of the 2010 Expo, we will definately be attending the 2011 AMA Expo. In fact there is already plans to increase our presence at the next show by adding a table to our booth.

The new year has landed, and we have a great year of flying ahead of us, but I wanted to remind everyone of a new PVMAC rule for 2010. All members are required to clip their membership card on their shirt, hat or jacket, to be visible by all while flying at the Norton and Prado fields.  If you are flying with a 2.4Ghz radio, you will no longer need to place your badge on the frequency board.  If you are flying 72Mhz, you are still required to place your badge on the frequency board under the frequency you are flying with and when your done flying, you should remove your badge from the board and clip it back on your shirt.  The main reason for this is that it will make it much easier to to identify members vs. non members. Also, the badge will make it easier to remember everyones name, making it a much friendlier place at the fields.