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2010 Events Snapshots from club meeting and other "happenings".   (Started 2/26/2010)
2010 Projects Member projects for 2010  (Last Updated 2/25/2010)
January 1, 2010 Our Frozen Fingers Fun Fly
November 2009 Final days of the 2009 flying season.
The pictures were taken over several November days.
RC Flying Season 2009 Harlan Field, Lagrange Ohio
RC Flying Season 2009 Aerial pictures of Harlan and Jaycox fields.
2009 Flying Season Full-Scale Planes and Helicopters
These pictures were taken over the 2009 flying season at Harlan Field.  The full-scale guys always enjoy talking with us just as we enjoy talking with them.  
October 25, 2009 Swap Meet
Another great swap meet organized by Mike with many hard workers making a great event for fliers from all over.

Member Fun Projects or Events

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April 11, 2010 Weak Signals Exposition, Toledo Ohio 

These pictures are mostly of the build projects.

April 11, 2010 ETOC Saturday, first two rounds.

ETOC Saturday, last rounds and final 4.

The above two links are from the ETOC, Electric Tournament of Champions.  The ETOC runs Friday and Saturday evening on the same days as the Weak Signals Show, Toledo, and just a few minutes drive from Seagate.  If you haven't seen this in person, consider visiting it, for the RC Pilots put on a great show, both precision and freestyle.

November 7th and 8th, 2009 JR Indoor Electric Festival, Columbus Ohio

Alex and Al made the Journey to Columbus on Saturday to partake in this event.  Alex flew his new MX-2 foam model while I took pictures.  We also met the designer of the MX-2, RJ Gritter.  The MX-2 took first place at this years E-TOC (Toledo) while being flown by Seth Arnold.  RJ, Seth, Jamie Hicks, Andrew Jesky, Nick Maxwell and many other premier pilots were at this event.  If you are interested in the MX-2 Foam Model for yourself, here's a link where you can get it from:  http://stores.homestead.com/fancyfoam/StoreFront.bok

If you are interested in attending the 2010 festival, click on the following link:
http://www.jriefestival.com/
Held October 7th through October 11th, 2009, Tucson Arizona. Tucson Aerobatic Shootout:  This event drew the top RC Pilots from around the world for 5 days of intense competition.  With  a $100,000 plus purse (money and prizes) at stake, it is certainly the premier RC event in the US.  I (Al) attended the event Friday through Sunday and witnessed some extreme flying.  Wednesday through Sunday was IMAC style sequences.  Saturday and Sunday also had 3-sets of 4-minute freestyles... they were totally awesome!  I took almost 6000 pictures and am presenting them to you in three groupings, one for each of the three days I was there.

Fridays Pictures
These pictures mostly display the event property and a number of planes and pilots.  Saturdays and Sundays pictures will focus on 3D flying.  Sundays pictures will also show the awards ceremonies.

Saturdays Pictures
The 4 minute freestyles start.  This is totally awesome flying done low to the ground and to music.

Sundays Pictures
Freestyle pictures along with the awards ceremonies.

For more information
Bill Hempel's web site has some really cool videos to watch plus some large, very large ARFs, YOU CAN OWN for yourself.
http://www.billhempel.com

Desert Aircraft    Here you'll find the standings for the 2009 and all past shootouts.

Flying Giants Website   Great coverage, text, pictures and videos, of the event.  Here are multiple links to different threads.

http://www.flyinggiants.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47360

http://www.flyinggiants.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47500

http://www.flyinggiants.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47575

Higher Plane Productions Website    A service (costs money) with many videos and stills of not only the shootout, but many RC events.
http://www.higherplaneproductions.com/

September 11th-13th, 2009 Huckfest, held in Napoleon Ohio (near Toledo Ohio).

If you want to see large planes well flown, or want to fly your large plane, this is a good event to go to. 

There is more information on the Flying Giants website.
http://www.flyinggiants.com/forums/fg276/

June 2009

EAA Fly-In, Harlan Field, Lagrange, Ohio  These pictures were provided by Jim W.

February 2008 Jim K's Trains

A few shots of Jim's really nice train layout.