Ren,
This is terrific news! Thanks very much for your leadership!
I am forwarding your message to John Lorbiecki, President of the National
Free Flight Society. John has just set up a NFFS committee for Indoor FF
expansion in the USA, so this is well-timed.
I will get the word out in NFFS Digest for any and all Florida area modelers
to contact you and get behind this.
Warm Regards,
Don DeLoach
Editor, NFFS Free Flight Digest
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From: Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com
[mailto:Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Ren
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 2:34 PM
To: Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Indoor_Construction] Lakeland flying site update...Long update...
Hi guys,
I just got back from my meeting with the board members.
We have two hangars available to us. The first is hangar E, which as you can
see in my photos folder, is pretty large. It has a 20 odd foot ceiling and
is about 100' long by about 75' wide. I was told that it is open to us for
weekly, bi-weekly, monthly fly-ins, club meetings, classes we might wish to
have and/or demonstrations. The folks here are really big on getting people
excited about anything that has to do with aviation, at any level. Science
Olympiad, Scouts, AMA events, you name it, they'd like it incorperated into
their plans. I mention Science Olypiad because as of two years ago, there is
the Central Florida Aviation Academy on site,
http://www.polkacademies.com/cfaa/ , and the BoD would like to see a SO,
Wright Stuff program implemented in the very near future.
The BoD would like to see hangar A used for indoor free flight competitions,
be they local, semi-local, state-wide, Regional and/or National.That hangar
promises us a thirty odd foot ceiling, 100' by 75' minimum flying area. If
used for an annual major competition, we would have a 100' by almost 200'
flying area and bleachers would be moved in for public seating.
The cost to us is minimal, in fact it is so minimal that it equals to
"FREE", as in no charge, gratis, zip, nada.
They do ask that we clean-up after ourselves and leave the hangar as we
found it.
They asked that I take care of the orginizing; that I give them a list of
our "rules" (whatever they are, they insist we're a club), copy of the AMA
members insurance benifits and forward all that to a Board member for
presentation. We should be flying within a month.
Now the "CATCH"...I've never organized anything like this before and could
use any suggestions from the group, so feel free to advise and suggest...I'm
all ears....
I think this is a great oppertunity for Indoor Free Flight here in Florida.
We have the second largest Air Show in the USA supporting our efforts and
best of all, it's at no cost to us. The sky's the limit, guys. Let me know
what you think, feel, ideas to make this venture even better...let's have a
discussion.
Regards to all,
Ren
Received on Wed Apr 04 2012 - 14:15:30 CEST