TCRC'ers Earn Their All Season Flyers Patches
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January Minneapolis, Minnesota U.S.A. 2004 TCRC’ers Earn Their All TCRC Auction Season Flyers Patches Just Around The by Jim Cook Corner December 6th was a gray, cloudy day with moderate winds, cold The biggest event of the year for temperatures and snow on the runways, but that didn’t stop a bunch of the club is only a few weeks away – TCRC’ers from showing up and taking a few flights. the TCRC Annual Auction. The 2004 edition is scheduled for Saturday, February 7th at its usual place in the basement of St. Peter’s Church in Richfield, Minnesota. Start time for registration is 8:00 AM and the bidding starts at 10:00 AM. Last year was a big auction and this year promises to be even bigger yet. Every year there are at least 300 or so R/C aviation related items that come up on the auction block, including about 150 completed aircraft just waiting for you to purchase and put into the air. The auction requires a big commitment from TCRC’s members Pat Dziuk, Jim Ronhovde, Jim Cook, Orv Schneewind and Rick in the form of time to make the event Smith pose with their planes on December 6th. (Photo by Jim Cook) run smoothly. Every member should mark his or her calendar now and This was a special occasion for the pilots. The day marked the final plan on being part of the annual flight they each needed to earn their AMA All Season Flyer patch for auction. And don’t forget to look 2003. To earn that patch, a pilot must put at least one outside flight in through all of your R/C gear to find each month of a calendar year. To accomplish this in the state of out what you have to sell and what Minnesota is quite an accomplishment. you need to buy. Be a part of Continued On Page 3, Column 1 TCRC’s greatest event. January, 2004 Minneapolis, Minnesota U.S.A. Page 2 publishing as we get information corroding and leaking, becoming and as we feel appropriate. Keep potential fire hazards. Cans of From The your eyes open for someone you spray paints had split at the seams know! and leaked on the shelves venting Cockpit Of The their volatile propellants into the I don’t know about you, but closed spaces of the basement President I’ve used part of my holiday time cupboards. This member had to clean and inventory the shop in several radio systems, but as they by Scott Anderson order to get things ready for the had stayed on the shelf since 1988 TCRC 28th Annual AUCTION they no longer had any value. Happy New Year! coming Saturday February 7th, What’s the lesson to us? Organize 2004. I’ve found I had a ton of your shop. Keep an inventory. January’s here, the Holiday’s aircraft and other stuff I’m going Identify high technology items that are spent, now I wonder where the to put up for auction. If you’re like should be sold immediately if you money went? me and have a lot of items for the are unable to continue in the hobby auction, then you’ll want to fill out for several years, (if at all). Radio Did you get what you wished a Seller’s Inventory Card prior to systems, servos, and electronics for? In my house, I order what I the auction. I’m working with our lose value as time progresses. wish for and then it gets wrapped Webmiester, Pat Djiuk to see if we Keep your paints and glues in a as: To: Scott, From: Scott. It can place a down loadable version controlled environment. Leave takes the surprise out of it. I did on our Website with a registration instructions as to what is hazardous get to see that my nephew, log so sellers may register, and what is not. Identify items Brandon Anderson, got a G&P download a PDF Seller’s Inventory with limited shelf lives so they can Sales Albatross Twin Engine Card, and then fill it out and tag be disposed of early, or given to Flying Boat. (Now I’m getting their items before they get to the someone who could use them. envious!) Brandon is looking to auction. Placing items in the Airplane engines rarely age well. put two OS.70 FS four strokes in it impound becomes easy. The seller It’s even worse when the modeler, once he gets his set of retractable takes his form to register and pays like this gentleman, ran them on a landing gear. It looks like a great for his entry. Then he hands his test stand then wrapped them in project and I’m sure it will be Seller’s Inventory Card to the rags to keep the dust out. The oils ready for the May Building impound so they can check each hardened and the engines became Contest as well as the May Float item as it comes in from the car to solid requiring extensive work to Fly! the impound. disassemble and clean them. If you find you have a lot of stuff in We’re starting our new Is your shop in order in case your shop that you have not used ‘Members in Profile’ column in you have an accident? A shop is in several years, then bring it to the this issue of Flare Out. It’s our often a modeler’s personal TCRC AUCTION Saturday goal to provide you with a picture ‘fortress of solitude’ where most FEBRUARY 7th! You can clean and some basic information family members fear to tread. This the shop, get some money out of it, concerning the TCRC members chilling question popped into my spend some time with the you will see and hear about. Since head after I spent an afternoon last Midwest’s best group of modelers, we have over 100 members, it week with the widow of a former and you’ll help out TCRC as well. would be nuts to do one a month, member, helping her clean out his so we’ll be doing two each month. shop. Unfortunately she had no I look forward to seeing you One Profile with be of a new, or idea as to what items went with there! recent member, and the second what and whether any of it had will be of a long-time member. value. To make matters worse, it I’ve got to get back to my shop Since we have so many of both, it had been 13 years since her now. I barely have room for my will be pretty balanced for years to husband had passed and the paints, PC to write this column! come! Don’t be upset if they fuels, and other flammables had appear out of order, we’ll be been sitting in that basement shop January, 2004 Minneapolis, Minnesota U.S.A. Page 3 All Season Flyers Neither Rain Nor Sleet . Continued From Page 1 Pat Dziuk and Jim Cook arrived early around 10:45 or so and immediately started setting up their planes. Shortly after most of the other pilots started arriving. There are about 15 or 20 TCRC pilots who were in the running for their 2003 ASF patch, but a final accounting has not been done as yet. Those partaking of the December 6th festivities included: Pat Dziuk, Jim Cook, Jim Ronhovde, Orv Schneewind, Rick Smith, Stan Erickson and Jay Bickford. Many others either qualified earlier or later in the month. Jim Ronhovde debates where he should put his plane in preparation for his December ASF flight. (Photo by Jim Cook) Several of the members obtained their 9th AMA ASF patch in a row this year! Burning Holes In A Cold The January All Season Flyer December Sky Kick-Off has already been scheduled for Saturday, January 3rd. Several newer members have indicated they would like to pursue their ASF patch in 2004, and to do so, they need a January flight. If you are interested in becoming a 2004 All Season Flyer, come down to the Jordan Field at 11:00 AM on Saturday, January 3rd and put in a few flights off of the snow cover at the field. If you miss this day you still have the rest of the month to get your January flight and be on track for your 2004 All Season Flyer patch. Become An All Season Flyer In 2004 Rick Smith and Pat Dziuk put their planes through their paces on a gray December morning. (Photo by Jim Cook) January, 2004 Minneapolis, Minnesota U.S.A. Page 4 TCRC Dues With the arrival of the new year, the payment of TCRC’s 2004 dues are due. The dues have been raised this year to: x Adult: $50 x Junior: $25 x Social: $30 For members new to TCRC there is also an initiation fee of $50 for adult membership and $25 for junior membership. There is no initiation fee for social membership. Dues should be given to treasurer Rick Smith at a meeting or sent to him at: 6507 Manchester Lane Eden Prairie, MN 55346 Deadline for payment is February 15, but don’t wait until the last minute. Take the time to pay your TCRC dues today. January, 2004 Minneapolis, Minnesota U.S.A. Page 5 TCRC Calendar For 2004 TCRCOnline DATE EVENT REMARKS Fully January 3 All Season Flyer Kickoff Champion: Scott Anderson Operational January 27 1st Quarter Board Meeting Auction Planning Session 7:00 PM Room H195 Recent new member Pat Dziuk has been working overtime to get the * February 7 TCRC Annual Auction St.