| High: | 29 °C |
| Winds: | 24 km/h W |
| Gust: | 61 km/h |
| Moderate drizzle | |
| High: | 23 °C |
| Winds: | 12 km/h NE |
| Gust: | 30 km/h |
| Overcast | |
| High: | 26 °C |
| Winds: | 10 km/h N |
| Gust: | 20 km/h |
| Light drizzle | |
| High: | 26 °C |
| Winds: | 15 km/h NW |
| Gust: | 25 km/h |
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Next weekend, Saturday July 19, is our annual “WOTB and TopGun” event.
Beginning at about 9:00AM at Bayview Park.
There will be prizes for the best build and best flight.
As well as the usual barbecue and hot dogs.
As a special addition, we will be hosting several British historic sports cars.
BRCM members and guests only.
Sunday is alternate if weather lets us down.
(Pray for having good weather for this event.)
On Tuesday June 24, TechnoLine Pavement Services will be retouching the runway with sealant. The work should take one day if weather permits, so no flying can take place on Tuesday.
Update:
Thanks to Brian Harrington and Technoline Pavement, we have a new runway surface. Keep an eye out for real planes trying to land.
Some of you may know John Martin, who joined the club about a year ago. Sadly, he passed away a short time ago after a brief illness.
In his brief time in the club, he acquired a large amount of RC equipment and airplanes. A few of the planes have been sold off, but several planes and an astonishing amount of equipment remain. Virtually all of it is essentially brand new. Only one or two planes have been flown, and, while he has 20 LiPo batteries, only a few of them have been used, and only for a few flights.
We are assisting the widow, Sue, to sell these articles. Barry Partridge, Eric Klepsch and I have worked through the details.
Below are a number of photographs, some of them are aircraft and there is also a top of the line Spektrum transmitter. These will be sold individually with an asking price about half of the new price (except for the transmitter). We believe this is a reasonable asking price for each item.
If you are interested in an item, email Geoff at norman@mcmaster.ca, type 'Martin' in the subject line, indicate which item you are interested in, and your offer. The first reasonable offer will be accepted. You will be notified the first week of July.
For the remaining smaller items, we have listed them all and referred you to the appropriate image.
We are conducting a modified silent auction.
If you are interested, please e-mail Geoff at norman@mcmaster.ca, type 'Martin' in the subject line,
and submit the code number of the item, the description, and how much you are offering.
Submit your bid by Friday, June 27 at 5 PM.
The highest bidder for each item will be notified during the first week of July.
For all accepted offers, it will then be up to you to contact Sue Martin and arrange payment and pickup, I will provide her address details at that time.
Geoff
E-Flite T-28 1.1 m New Price Asking Price $260 $150
E-Flite Habu EDF New Price Asking Price $420 $200
E-Flite Conscendo 1.5 m New Price Asking Price $300 $140
E-Flite Apprentice STOL New Price Asking Price $330 $100
Spektrum iX14 Transmitter
(Top of the line, 14 channel, unused)New Price Asking Price $1400 $900
Silent Auction - LiPo Batteries
(from left to right)Code Description Quantity Asking Price S01 3S 6800 2 $30 S02 3S 6500 2 $30 S03 4S 4000 1 $35 S04 3S 3200 1 $30 S05 3S 2200 9 $30 S06 4S 5600 2 $40 S07 2S 300 2 $25
Silent Auction - Assorted #1 Code Description Asking Price S08 Box of files $10 S09 Multiway holder $10 S10 Battery charger $50 S11 Prop balancer $20 S12 ESC programmer $20 S13 Assorted wrenches $10
Silent Auction - Assorted #2 Code Description Asking Price S14 CG machine $10 S15 Covering iron $15
Sorry Folks, but today's FunFly has been cancelled due to high winds.
Unfortunately, tomorrow does not look much better, and some key organizers are not available.
We will attempt to reorganize it on another weekend. Stay tuned.
Hopefully the gods will be with us for the next event.
Ian Brown has lost his driving glass, they are in a black and red case.
Lost Thursday night, June 4 at Bayview.
Last Fall (2024) a fellow club member had the misfortune of seeing his Freewing T-33
disappear through the trees.
We found the model scattered on the ground, in the bushes, and in the trees.
Gathering everything in a garbage bag, I asked: "what are you going to do with the debris?"
He replied: "It's going in the garbage."
I said: "Give it to me, I'm looking for a winter project."
After a couple of weeks, I laid all the parts on my basement floor.
As I have done with other crashed winter projects, I Gorilla glued and stapled the fuselage parts
together from nose to tail.
The fuselage was in 7 pieces.
And after a lot of the "hot water treatment", I began filling and
sanding and got the fuselage to a 20/20 acceptance.
(At 20 feet away and at 20 mph, you can't see the repairs!)
In January of '25, Barry Parkinson and I travelled to Niagara Falls, NY to pick up my wing and model parts along with Barry's beautiful big yellow E-Flite T-28. I finished rebuilding the T-33 fuselage by March, then began painting the model in the 1970's RCAF T-33 fluorescent orange wing tip scheme. Callie Graphics decals gave the model its personality. This rebuild took 5 months and was an excellent winter project.
Last Friday (April 22, 2025) I took the model to our flying field to have Peter Krautter take pictures for this article. Brian Harrington was there as well.
The next day, Brian called and made me an offer. It's his!
Thanks to Peter Krautter for the pictures at our Field.
Cheers
Ted Pritlove
Ted Pritlove - rebuilder, Peter Krautter- photographer, Brian Harrington- test pilot
Update (May27):
We have been informed that the Niagara bound lanes of the Skyway will be completely closed from Friday evening to Monday morning for maintenance. From past experience, that means that pretty well all east-west traffic in Burlington and Hamilton, and of course the QEW and 403, will be gridlocked.
As a result, after chatting with some members, and recognizing that it’s only a couple of weeks to our Father’s Day fly-in, we we have decided to cancel Maidenfest for this year.
From 7:30 till 9:30 PM, in the back room. Snacks courtesy of BRCM.
All events run from about 9 AM until about 3 PM.
Members and invited guests only.
Food and soft drinks provided.
Last Wednesday the Ryerson undergraduates were setting up their drone for this year's competition challenge. The drone is designed to detect forests fire and deliver fire retardant using A.I. The competition is being held May 9 - 11, in Medicine Hat.
For more information about the competition, go to:
https://www.aerialevolution.ca/annual-student-competition/
Contact Eric Klepsch to claim them.