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January 2010 Issue

Make 2010 Proactive


Another year is in the books.
I hope everyone had a good 2009 and will have an even better 2010.
 

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Distraction Action


Once upon a midnight dreary, as I pondered weak and weary….

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 Club Corner


Has your club become a little inbred? By this I mean perhaps you have not looked around to other clubs to see what you might incorporate to make your club more interesting and enjoyable.

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Membership Drive Reaction


As I write this, it is a week before Christmas and the final membership numbers for 2009 are fresh in my mind ... Depressing but still in my mind. We had a membership drive. A well-thought-out, but poorly executed drive. The leg work was done at the HQ level and the advertising was done in Model Aviation and by word of mouth via most of the District VPs. Yet the grass roots level, where the newbie meets the member, it didn’t happen very well; seemingly no interest in the growth of the membership by the average modeler or club.
 

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From the Mid Atlantic Radio Kontrol Society, Snow Hill, Maryland

Learning to 3-D and 3-D Well; Hovering and Torque Roll
Part 4 of 5
In the past installments, you got the appropriate virtual and real airplanes to fly, as well as practiced methods to help speed your learning. During that time you also built two of the fundamental building blocks necessary to learning 3-D aerobatics—the Harrier and High Alpha Knife Edge.

 

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From the Middle Point RC Flyers, Murfreesboro, Tennessee

Airplanes for Flying in Windy Weather
All too often, on an otherwise nice but windy day, folks just don’t fly. Obviously, for a beginner, that’s common sense—but for someone who has some experience, the wind can be a challenge that adds some spice to flying.

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