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you have, size of membership, flying rules, subscription rates, training facilities, types of model
flown, social activities, special events, site availability, guest arrangements,
frequency of meetings, location, or anything else you can think to
mention. Pictures will also be most welcome, and if you want to send me
pictures by conventional post, my address now appears on the home
page. If your club has a website, let me know the address and I will
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| Having met Roger
Forgues through the post-box and personal
profile pages, I thought I would drop in on his club to complete the
picture, as it were - here's the low-down: |
 Cornwall
Aero Modellers
Cornwall, Ontario, Canada
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Although Roger
didn't mention it in his correspondence, I discovered that he is, in
fact, the President of this Club. Clearly a Club with a sense of humour,
this one - one of their declared purposes is to 'serve as a support
group for members to grieve over planes lost in action'!
On the right, a nice aerial shot of
where the lads hang out (any lasses, I wonder - I still can't find any
lady fliers). It certainly is a very nice looking site at Cornwall
Center Road, located across from the town dump and carefully
selected for members to conveniently dispose of their debris when the
spinning earth happens to collide with their models, we're told! This is
one of Roger's aerial shots, by the way.
The club holds a meeting on the second
Monday of each month and has an active programme of events - they are
holding their Annual Fun Fly on June 24/25, for instance, with some
Cdn$400-worth of prizes to be won.
Membership fees are $50 annually, but
they do appear to have very strict conditions of membership:
| must be nuts about planes; |
| must have $$$ to crash or burn; |
| must have a Saint for a wife (or
a rich one who loves you very much); |
| must have search-and-rescue
skills; |
| must be able to tell tall
stories; |
- see what I mean about their sense of
humour?
Surprisingly, the club's website does
not have the usual photo gallery page that seems almost obligatory these
days. Mind you, such pages can be very long-winded to download and
sometimes the pictures are a bit disappointing. But that let's me offer ModelFlight
to all you members of CAM to show the rest of the world your pride and
joy - come on, lads, join the club! There are a couple of biggies in Roger's picture there that would
be particularly nice to see closer up.
http://www.cnwl.igs.net/~cam/
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