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THE JOHNSTOWN RC Club, which was
founded in 1962, held its annual mall show
at the Johnstown Galleria Mall on April 30
and May 1 and 2. More than 55 airplanes
and helicopters were displayed during the
long weekend with demonstrations of small
helicopters, and gliders taking place
throughout the show.
The club gave away helium-filled
balloons to youngsters, and had several
flight simulators in action on laptops. Of the
club’s 49 members, 28 participated in
showing their airplanes and/or staffing the
display during the weekend.
The club has been doing a mall show for
at least 20 years, and has earned an AMA
Leader Club award for the past 15 years
straight. The club maintains an active Web
site at www.johnstownrc.org, which has
hundreds of pictures from past activities and
from this year’s mall show.
The Johnstown RC Club’s Mall Show display.
On Saturday, May 15, 2010, the Air
Masters RC club held a picnic and grand
opening of its new field in North Bend,
Ohio, located west of Cincinnati on the
mighty Ohio River. The sky was cloudless
and deep blue with light and variable winds.
The Air Masters, in conjunction with its
field relocation, became an AMA sanctioned
club in 2010. The new field is located on
property belonging to Duke Energy, which
sponsors two model aviation flying sites in
the Cincinnati area.
The Air Masters has roughly 65 members
and has been a club since 1994. In the early
years of its existence, the members
experienced the same pitfalls as a lot of RC
clubs: field location and neighbors.
Club President Paul Wiley and member Tony
Michel celebrate the first flight at the new
field.
In 1997, the club made arrangements to
locate its site on Duke Energy property
where it stayed until they were informed that
Duke would have to move them because of
expansion. Fortunately, Duke provided a
new site and enough ground for a 1000 x
100-foot grass runway, ample over-fly area,
parking, a Control Line circle, a club house,
and a spectator area.
Saturday’s events included the opening
ceremony by club president, Paul Wiley,
who offered prayer and recognition to those
who made the move possible. The first flight
was performed by club member Tony
Michel.
The Air Masters offers a broad range of
activities that include flight training. See the
club’s Web site at www.airmasters.info.
CL expert Carl Lovins enjoys a few laps at
the new CL circle.
Aerial view of the new site as seen from the
south.
Jim Maupin’s Ryan STA takes off.
Bob Brown
Vice President
35 Sanford St.
Bradford PA 16701
Tel.: (814) 368-7655
www.amadistrictiii.org
Associate Vice
Presidents
Randy Adams, Fairfield
OH; (513) 858-3154;
[email protected]
Mike Barbee, Delaware OH;
(740) 362-5545;
[email protected]
Jeff Black, New Oxford PA; (717)
965-5634; [email protected]
Dave Brown, Hamilton OH; (513)
738-1576; dbrown@
dbproducts.com
David H. Ellis, Cross Lanes WV;
(304) 776-1408;
[email protected]
Nelson Gould, Macungie PA;
(610) 395-9159; [email protected]
Ken Karpinski, Philadelphia PA;
(267) 474-3575;
[email protected]
Dan Luchaco, Sayre PA;
(570) 888-1856;
[email protected]
Jim Martin, Franklin OH;
(937) 260-0143;
[email protected]
Mark Radcliff, Saint Marys WV;
(304) 684-2133;
[email protected]
Leo Rodriguez, New Stanton PA;
(724) 925-0159;
[email protected]
Matthew Turowski, Nescopeck
PA; (570) 379-2014;
[email protected]
Joseph S. Vislay, Monclova OH
(419) 878-8843;
[email protected]
Frequency Coordinator:
Ron Morgan, Scotland PA;
(717) 264-7425;
[email protected]
District III
Bob Brown, District III Vice President; [email protected]
Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia
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