Pomona Valley Model Airplane Club

On Monday, June 4th, and Tuesday, June 5th the Prado Field will be closed for some badly needed runway maintenance.  At the May members meeting, we discussed the maintence at length, and although there was not an official vote due to not having a quarum, the overall concensus was that we needed to do this.  If all goes well, the runway will re-open on Wednesday, June 6th, for normal operations.

The Runway will have all the cracks filled, and the entire surface will be slurry sealed, and then re-stripped so that it looks like a runway. 

If you happen to own or know of a friend that owns one of those nifty new Ipads or Droid tablets, Check out this month’s issue of www.rcpilot.com

This month’s issue has some great articles on many PVMAC members. The front cover and article on Dr. Ken Wagner, Marty Nelson and his P51 Tuskegee Airmen Red tail, Frank Martinez, Bob Mabli, Vinny Russo, Kyle Goodwine and myself.

There is also a great article and photos of your PVMAC Prado Airpark. 

Rumor has it that within the next couple issues they will be having an article on your clubs Vice President Chuck Pozanac. The article will include photos of Chucks business of manufacturing and rebuilding wood Stearman wings.

Check it out.

Thanks, Phil Goodwine

On Saturday February 25, 2012 we will be having our Prado airfield clean up beginning at 7:00 A.M.

The field will be closed to all flying until the cleanup is complete.  

Our main focus will be to remove the weeds and prune the trees, however we will also be doing other maintenance and clean up as required.

We ask that all able bodied members join us in this effort. The more help we have, the sooner the field will be open for flying. So please bring rakes, shovels, gloves and any other implements of landscaping that you can think of.

If you could donate some large plastic trash bags, that would also be appreciated.

Even if you are unable health wise to pull weeds, shovel rocks, prune trees we can always use the help in keeping the working members hydrated or by driving the truck and trailer to recover trash bags. We could also use the help of another larger truck with a hitch to pull the two steel drags around to flatten out dirt areas.

Please come out and help. This is YOUR field. We should all be thankful and proud of what we have and show that gratitude by helping out.

Thank,

Phil Goodwine / PVMAC President

The FAA Modernization and Reform Act received final congressional approval today as it passed the Senate today with a 75-20 vote.  The bill switches air traffic controllers from Radar to GPS, and opens up the U.S. skies to unmanned drone flights within 4 years.  Modelers and the AMA were concerned that a new bill would impose new restrictions and regulations on model aircraft.  However, with the effort of the AMA and its members, the bill includes provisions that protect model aviation and as such, there are no new restrictions on modelers.  This is Great News!   The Bill is expected to be signed into law by President Obama shortly.  You can read the press release from the AMA here.

John Reid,  Model Airplane News' West Coast Editor and fellow PVMAC member, has posted a really nice article on his blog on the Model Airplane News site about the  Red Tails, to coincide with the recent release of the Movie, The Red Tails.  At the end of the posting, John dedicates some time to italking about our own Marty Nelson and his very special P-51.  In addition, John posted an video interview  late last year, which I missed, but I've linked to it below in case you missed it too.

Link to Tuskegee Airmen Blog Post on Model Airplane News

Link to John Reid's video Interview with  Marty Nelson
 

Photo is credited to John Reid and Model Airplane News

On Tuesday,December 13th, the PVMAC held its December club meeting at the Chino Community Center, and we had a great turn out, matching last years turn out of 75 PVMAC members, showing up to eat pizza and cast their vote for the 2012 board member.  With a record mebership year having 504 members in 2011,  the 75 members in attendance Tuesday night was more than the requred 10% quarum.  Your PVMAC 2012 board members are Roy Barringer, Tom Marcure, Larry Marsh, Charlie Mitchell, Steve Parola, Chuck Pozanac, Paul Smith, Jim Stout and Phil Goodwine.  

In addition to electing the board members, we  heard several great presentations by members who were trying to get a last minute presentation in for the year end drawing.  Every year, at the last meeting, The PVMAC holds a yearly drawing for a $350 and a $250 Visa gift card.  For each presentation that you make during the year, you receive 1 ticket into the drawing.   Greg Stockdale had the record this year with 7 presentations thus 7 tickets into the drawing; unfortunately he did not win.  Roy Barringer proved you only need one ticket to win, and took home the $350 prize.  2012 promises to be another great year, and the newly elected board members wasted no time,  getting right to work on making the final preperations for the first event of 2012, the  Prado Booth at the AMA Expo on January 6th-8th.

To start the year off right,  the PVMAC will hold is 1st membership meeting of 2012, which again will be host to a special presentation by Horizon Hobby.  This special meeting will be On Wednesday, January 4th, at 7:00 PM at the Chino Hanger of Lady Alice.   If you were at last years January membership meeting with Horizon Hobby, you know we had an amazing turnout and a really good time.  Horizon Hobby was so pleased with it last year, they have decided to do it again.   This year, dinner is being served to the first 150 guests that arrive and receive a dinner ticket.  Dinner  is being catered by Zendejas Mexican restaurant, thanks to a generous Goodwine Aerosports Sponsorship!

This meeting will take the place of our normal second Tuesday of the month meeting. Be sure to bring your own folding chairs or you will be standing, and it can get chili in there as there is a large, open  hangar door, so bring a Jacket. All RC airplane enthusiasts are welcome, you do not need to be a club member to attend. If you need directions to the hangar please see the map below.  Water and soft drinks will be provided by the PVMAC.  Arrive early! You don't want to miss this.  

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