AMA News: District V-2007/12

OUR FINAL Jamboree of the 2007 season
was hosted by the North Alabama Radio
Control Association (NARCA) near
Huntsville, Alabama. Ernie Duffy was the
organizer and event director, and he enlisted
a great group of club members to put on the
Jamboree.
The club made a great effort to contact
the neighboring population. The local TV
station came out and made some video of
the event on Saturday and it ran on TV that
night.
Before the event, the club was featured
on a TV program along with some coverage
in the local paper and radio stations. The
result was a large group of spectators
watching some great flying!
NARCA invited the local CL club to
participate,
and the
members
showed up in
force! Roughly
20 pilots and
newbies
enjoyed flying
CL models all
day.
The field is a small, full-scale grass strip
that is leased by the club. They have a good
relationship with the site owner, and he even
came out with a homemade “train” that he
pulled with his tractor and gave all the
children rides around the site all day! They
really seemed to have fun.
During the noon demonstrations, local
modelers showed their skill with various
models from Giant Scale aerobatic models
to large sailplanes, and even a scale
helicopter. The NARCA group really
achieved the
goal of attracting
all types of
models to the
event!
They even
had a candy drop
for the kids!
The day was competed with a wonderful,
on-site chicken barbeque created for us by a
local company that competes in national
barbeque events! The food was great, and so
was the fellowship and friends that we met.
NARCA donated roughly half of the
profits from the Jamboree to the other
nonprofit organizations. Funds went to Boy
Scouts of America Troop 384, the local
Cadet Squadron #119 of the Civil Air Patrol,
and the Harvest Volunteer Fire Department.
When we started with the Jamboree we
wanted to make sure that we benefited some
local community organizations and we were
pleased to have done so.
Great job NARCA!