April Meeting Announcements

A few announcements from this month's Association meeting:

Mad River Flying Association will be changing its name to URBANA RC FLYING ASSOCIATION.

  Meeting minutes can be found HERE.

Members- FIELD OPENING DAY is this Sunday, April 9th at 1:00 PM. We will be setting up and repairing equipment, so please come and help and prepare to get dirty. 

 

WARBIRD RACING:  Practice Day- get in some laps around the pylons! April 29th at 1:00 PM

 

APRIL 15-18, 2017 at GRIMES FIELD:  75th ANNIVERSARY OF DOLITTLE RAID
Historic gathering of B-25 Bombers: 18 of these magnificent aircraft will be coming!

Next Meeting

Hey Members and Prospective Members:
Our next meeting will be Thursday, April 6th, 6:00 PM at the Champaign Aviation Museum. See you there!

Thank You!

Mad River Flying Association 

would like to thank all of the vendors and hobbyists that made our 2017 Swap Meet a success!

Member News

Members- Please set aside some time next week for the February association meeting.  This is the planning meeting for our swap meet coming up at the beginning of March.

In other news, the spring-like weather has lured some of us out of our hangars. Association member Todd P. sent us this picture of his recent outing. Check out the small plane- it's an E-flight Convergence VTOL (Vertical Take Off and Landing). The rotors tilt like a full-scale Osprey!

 

What have you been up to?

Mad River members haven't gone into hobby hibernation since the end of the summer. During the cold, wet weather we move from the flying field to our work shops. Here's what some of our members have been up to lately:

Association President Dick K. has been busy with several projects in his workshop, including learning how to make parts with his new 3-D plastic printer. (You can get one of these printer kits for $185 shipped!) In the above picture, the printer is finishing the root sections of wings for a Spitfire.

The model prints in sections that glue together. Here are the sections of the Spitfire he had completed. He'll have a cool 38" wingspan electric model when he's done.

He's also printing formers and hatches for his giant scale Cessna 172h.

Association Secretary Rob C. is making the leap to building, including recovering a Balsa USA Stick 40, finishing a Great Planes Trainer 60 kit, and rebuilding a twin-engine Cermark BN-2 Islander.

Members- share  your winter project by sending pics to flyurbana. We'd love to see what you have been up to!

Meeting Minutes and News

Happy Holidays to MRFA members and fellow modelers! Here are the December meeting minutes and a brief note about 2017 pylon racing:

December Meeting Minutes

Meeting called to order 6:07 PM

Members present: G. Bert, B. Alhoff, D. Millner, C. Merrow, D.

Wells, B.Huck and D. Kaczmarek.

There will not be a January meeting, next will be February 3.

2017 Dates:

-Military Approbation Day July 17

-Rotor Challenge June 3

-Need to finalize racing and get planes ordered.

-Treasurer report read and closed meeting 6:35 PM

Pylon Racing Update

- Get your Tower Hobbies Corsair or Hellcat soon with holiday discounts.

-  In order to expand the field of planes, we may accept other aircraft for war bird racing, IF a model meets the following criteria (similar to the Tower Hobbies specs):

 38-40" wingspan

1000 kV motor

ESC with max 30A rating

45 - 55 g/sq dm wing loading

Balsa, Foam, or Printed Plastic acceptable, as long as it within the variances specified- final approval rests with MRFA.

 

 - A second class for Parkzone war birds (Corsair, FW-190, Mustang, T-28, Wildcat) may be created if there is enough interest! Email Rob at flyurbana@gmail.com if you are interested ASAP. Please mention which stock Parkzone plane you would like to use.