ASRCM is hosting a spring fun fly on May 19th in celebration of the club's new flying site. Rain dates will be may 20th and May 21st.

All Flyers are welcome.  Flying starts at 8am.  There will be no registration fee and a free barbecue lunch (sponsored by Geoff Davis, owner of MIGHTY SMALL CARS) will be provided at noon.

MAAC of course is required.

To get to our new site take highway 224 (at the flashing light just before/after the Provincial Wildlife Park), proceed about 2.5 kilometres to the Saint Andrews River Road on the left.  Proceed up the Saint Andrews River Road approximately  two kilometres to Lynch Road on the left.  (this is the first road off Saint Andrews River road.  Go to the end of Lynch (couple of hundred yards) until it turns into a farm road through the trees.  Follow this road about 100 yards to a large open field.  Turn right up over this field and you will then see our site on the hill to the right.

photo directions to our site here:
http://www.asrcm.ns.ca/from_halifax.html

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many thanks to Paul for the graphic!

Flyers are reminded of the club's upcoming fun fly this weekend may 19.

We will have a number of nice prizes donated by John Hatt of Maritime Hobbies.  John has been very generous year after year for fun fly events throughout the province.  A BIG thank you to John!

Because of the long weekend we have two "rain date" days in case of bad weather.

Geoff Davis of Mighty Small Cars is supplying the food for the barbecue!  Many thanks to Geoff!

Really looking forward to the weekend - the weather is looking very very good (ouch - shouldn't have said that!).

I'll be bringing a heap of helis to blaze around & speaking to the helimaniacs guys there should be a good turn out.

Julian

excellent Julian look ing forward to seeing you and your fleet again as well as the rest of the maniac crew.

lots of room for parking i'm assuming

What a day! :)  Thanks to everyone for coming out, it was a blast.  And thanks especially to Geoff Davis for the grub and John Hatt, Harold, and Steffanie for all the great prizes!  It couldn't have been more of a success!

Gentlemen, I have just updated the web site with photos from the fun fly today.  Click on any photo on the site main page to access all photos from the event.

http://www.asrcm.ns.ca/index.html

I've also uploaded a video from the afternoon's eight plane stryker flight.  video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imZbsPqPpmU&feature=g-upl

another video highlighting the days flying should be ready later tonight.

some sample photos.

1 and 2. Colin with his gopro equipped trojan should result in some aerial video of our field.

3.  the hatts ready their HK, yes HK cessna.  ;D

4. Rick with his foamy

did anyone count the number of people there today?  I counted 34 cars in the parking area by mid morning.

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Hey guys, well I had a chance to go to the States for a romantic weekend ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;), shopping spree........ here I am....looks like it was a great turn out, glad everyone had a great time, the weather could not have been better, perfect for the Funfly.....I did get a new plane........ a Midget Mustang from Kings Mountain RC.....Warren Miller owner, one hell of a nice guy, spent almost 2 hours there, has some nice stuff,  he has the most OS/Saito engines I've ever seen in one store!!!!!
See you guys when I get back....

Sugar 8-)

Colin shot some great video of our field from his trojan with the gopro and also a bunch of photos which he has posted on the helimaniacs site.  A very interesting view of our field from his plane.

check these out at:

http://helimaniacs.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=vidsandpics&thread=1003&page=1

Big Shout Out to ASRCM Club ! What a great Event ! The first time out to the New Field, what a fantastic site.............Many thanks to the Boys for putting on such a Successful First Ever Fun Fly Event at the new field. Congratulations .......and Thanks to Geoff from Mighty small cars and John from Maritime Hobbies for their help in food and prises.

Rob Guildford
PS Al your photo skills are to be commended as well !  8-)

What an awesome day, thanks to all involved! Perfect weather too.

my high light package finally uploaded.  a compilation of clips from the event today.  view it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDsGiCfBgc8&feature=g-upl

Here is a few pictures I took "Behind the Scene's" at the ASRCM Fun Fly.
Here Al in "Full Swing" taking pictures as he always does,of the "Striker Mayhem" and he never sees himself,so Al here are a few of you.
Now are you embarrassed by all the attention ?
Hope so ! :D

Rob

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Now the "Real Secret" to taking great pictures is a good Director of Photography...... Her she is checking things out while Al, works away. 8-)

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What are Fun Flys without "Buddies" and Friends,here's a couple Geoff and Richard, hey Rich where's your pictures ?????
;)

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Finally after a "Hard Days" work of Directing Al Eastman's movie, you got to Relax, Right "Willow" ?
This was taken at the Prize Awards Ceremony at days end......

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Rob wrote on May 20^th, 2012 at 8:55am:

Now the "Real Secret" to taking great pictures is a good Director of Photography...... Her she is checking things out while Al, works away. 8-)

She's got his six :-)

Thanks ASRCM for a terrific day ! Stryker time was most fun for me and thanks to Al I can watch it over and over ! Great warm-up for Margaree Jon and Joe, I came close a couple of times   ::) ;D It was a beautiful day, the site is a dandy, and it was great to meet up with everyone. I sure know all the faces even if I can't remember all the names,I've been told that doesn't get any easier,guess I'll have to get used to it ;D
Here's a link to some field photos from yesterday, they were taken later in the day after a lot of folks had left , post #269 at bottom of page http://www.rccanada.ca/rccforum/showthread.php?p=950577#post950577
Cheers!
Frank

Looks like you all had a great time. Everything of significance was recorded for posterity in a very professional manner by Al Eastman and Frank Macdonald.
Al's video of the Stryker encounter is the best video I have seen. Kudos to the Fliers who kept the models within visible range.
Frank's still shots are superb and show the ASRMC new field off in a spectacular manner.
Thanks Frank for drawing my attention to the Lumix LX3 which has served me well.

Nice aerial photos Frank….  Waldo Pepper – that kind of dates you.

John OSullivan wrote on May 20^th, 2012 at 4:29pm:

Looks like you all had a great time. Everything of significance was recorded for posterity in a very professional manner by Al Eastman and Frank Macdonald. Al's video of the Stryker encounter is the best video I have seen. Kudos to the Fliers who kept the models within visible range. Frank's still shots are superb and show the ASRMC new field off in a spectacular manner. Thanks Frank for drawing my attention to the Lumix LX3 which has served me well.

Thanks John,too bad you didn't make it. I agree about Al's video, fantastic !

Bill G wrote on May 20^th, 2012 at 8:31pm:

Nice aerial photos Frank….  Waldo Pepper – that kind of dates you.

Uh...us , thanks Bill  ;)

I've just added Frank MacDonald's superb aerial photos of our new site to the club web site.

they really show off the new site!

click on the banner above or: www.asrcm.ns.ca

Many thanks for the use of those photos Frank and the kind comments on our event.  Thanks also to John OSullivan for your kind comments and to all who took the time to come out and fly with us.   

That's great Al, glad you could use them !

JonBoy and Joe, job well done..