The Great Park FLYING FIELD is open on Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday during the presence of a designated field marshall. President's Message The New Year has gotten off to a good, and busy, start. The newly elected Board met and committees were formed. The new committees and their Chairs are as follows: Membership - Joni Whitsitt Finance - Paul Vann Publicity - Dan Napier Education - Greg Stone Youth - Nathan Stone Flying Field - Robert Cantu Programs - Larry Klingberg Site Selection - Bob Lung OCMA Liaison - Greg Stone Many of you indicated a desire to help on different committees so contact the Chair and sign on. We need as many active members as we can get and if you can handle an extra meeting a month that helps the club move forward, please sign on. Good news from the Great Park front, we have a lease for 2010. It is on the same basis as the existing one, it is for a year, but needs to be renewed every 90 days and the Great Park has the option of moving us to another location if it should be necessary. While that is possible, at the moment it doesn't appear to be on the radar screen. Our club will also be involved in the Anniversary celebration of the Great Park Opening this coming July. We are looking at doing the same type of things we did last year with some expansion for the youth, more on that later. The AMA Expo has come and gone and for the first time in our history, our club had a booth. I would like to thank all who worked in the booth and at the Expo, I think it all went very well. We signed up several new members and got some renewals, but most importantly, we got a lot of visibility and answered many questions. The AMA held a special seminar for club officers and education committees and we had three attendees. We came away with some ideas for the future and maybe just as important, people to contact for assistance. The club now has a face book site; Dan Napier will talk about it at the next club meeting. This is not meant to replace the website so both will be active. Guess I'm going to have to break down and learn how to use it too, maybe Dan can put on a special class for those of us that need some extra shove to get into it. But all in all, I think it is a positive step forward for the club and should be a lot of fun. This month's meeting will present information on how to size electric motors for different planes, the proper ESC to use and how different size propellers give different results. Mark Silzle of OCRCC (also of Hobby People) is giving the presentation and he always has very useful information. We had a lead on a club meeting site a large conference room that easily seats 75 with audio/video set ups. The only draw back was we couldn't meet there at night so sadly it is out. All of you need to be on the look out for a larger meeting site, our club has grown and we need more space if we can get it. Stay in the Air, Dave Meriwether, President 949-350-4075 Cell 2010 Membership Membership form is now available [HERE]. Please contact Joni if you have any questions. Applicants must be a member of the AMA prior to joining Orange Coast Radio Control Club No. 1330. AMA Membership Applications can be obtained from the AMA web site. Download document No. 902 from the Publication page. Annual dues are due and payable by January 15 of the membership year to coincide with the AMA accounting year. Dues are delinquent if not paid by the regular meeting in February. Field Panoramic Photo While driving to the field this past Saturday 1/2/2001, I took this panoramic photo of our beautiful flying field. We are truely blessed with this wonderful place to enjoy our hobby. The photo is 6.6megs at full 12 megapixel resolution, so it's best to right click on the link and save it to your computer for viewing. Club Meeting The next club meeting is Monday, February 1st, 7:00 PM at Green Valley Adult Clubhouse in Fountain Valley. Club T-Shirts Steven Penn placed orders for the new club t-shirts. The shirts have the large club logo on the back in color and a small club logo on the front pocket. The t-shirts are silver grey. These high quality shirts are priced as follows: Medium, Large and X-Large $10.00 XX-Large and XXX-Large $12.00 Steven will be taking special orders for members who want a golf shirt. The golf shirts have a polo collar and front pocket with the large club logo on the back of the shirt and a small logo on the front pocket. The golf shirts are Ash Grey in color. The golf shirts are as follows: Medium to X-Large $15.00 XX-Large to XXX-Large $17.00 Place your orders with Steven Penn at the club Sales Table next meeting. Facebook Thanks to Dan, we now have our facebook page! Come join the discussion and share your photos.

El Toro Weather Forecast, CA AT6 Texan has been used extensively in air races. Highly modified ones such as this are seen at racing circuits hitting speed in excess of 100mph! F16 models such as this have been popularized with advancements in electric ducted fan (EDF) technology. This particular model can reach speed of 140mph! This is a highly sophisticated micro RC helicopter, Align T-Rex 250. Capable of full 3D aerobatic routine, yet small enough to fit on the palm of your hand! One of the more popular scale warbird at the field, F4U Corsair, has distinctive gull wings. This is an all foam E-Flight model coming in for landing. Truely a classic, the Cessna Skylane 182 was introduced in 1956 and has taught tens of thousands how to fly. This scaled version is also a good trainer for the RC pilots. This Andrew Jesky designed "Slick" is a high performance 3D aerobatic plane. In the hands of capable pilots they can perform just about any manuevers. One of the more well known axis warbird of the World War II era, German FW-190, makes its way onto the Great Park taxi way. A great racers of 1930, the Granville Brothers Gee Bee, is faithfully reproduced by this scale model kit.