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CHARLES RIVER RADIO CONTROLLERS (CRRC)
was founded in 1964, and is a club based in Eastern Masachusetts, USA.
It has over 140 members and the club is dedicated to radio-control
modelling. It is the home club of PETER YOUNG who has just
recently discovered ModelFlight
and liked it enough
to want to go on the e-mail reminder list!
From what I have been able to
discover about CRRC, it is certainly a very lively and active club. They
maintain several flying fields for their members' use, one of which they
share with another club whilst another is particularly dedicated to
gliders and electric-powered models. They maintain a useful directory of
slope soaring sites and even have an indoor flying site at Lincoln
Sudbury High School. I've put a couple of shots of a lovely indoor flyer
from CRRC on the photo gallery page.
I am always envious of those
clubs which have regular members' meetings, and this is one. CRRC has a
General Membership meeting held on the third Wednesday of every month to
which everyone is welcome, club members or not. There are often thirty or
more members present at the meeting, when they have a featured speaker or
theme and members can also bring along their building projects at
varying stages of completion; in addition there is an ever-popular
raffle! The November meeting, held on November 15th, was F-18 Night,
when Oli DeWeck, an MIT graduate student, discussed the
engineering details of the McDonnell Douglas FA-18 Hornet attack fighter
and David Kenright talked about the construction and the
propulsion system of his ducted fan model of the Grumman FA-18 Hornet
and also showed a video of the model's maiden flight. I wonder who won
the raffle prizes - a real bench drill press, an ARF Pico J3-S slow
flyer and "the gallon of fuel" which I suspect might not be
for thirsty models, but I might be wrong!
CRRC has a good website with a tremendous variety of pages covering
information about the club, flying sites, events, their instructor
program, pictures, weather, comments, etc. They have a What's New page
where you can quickly see a listing of what new items have been added to
the various pages of the site and a rather neat way of handling their
picture library. When you link to their Pictures page, you are initially
provided with a text list describing each of the pictures on the site,
each description being linked to the picture in question. That way, you
don't have to wait for a load of thumbnail images to download but can select as
you wish.
A recent innovation has been
the addition of the R/C Kid's Page featuring pictures sent in by
folks o n
the net of kids having fun with R/C, like this charming shot of John
Vigour and his nephew Ben, by courtesy of Tom Broeski (tjb@adesigner.com
March 2000). Do click on this thumbnail and enjoy this brilliant photograph.
Visit the CRRC website at http://www.charlesriverrc.org
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