| North West
Aeromodellers describes itself as a small friendly club of about 40
members, ranging from pre-school toddlers to "long since
retired". The club is situated in the Burnie and West Pine area of
north-west Tasmania. It is affiliated to the Model Aeronautical
Association of Australia, Inc., the national organisation offering the
usual insurance, competitions and other facilities to aeromodellers.
The club's grass strip flying field is located
at West Pine, and is in use most days of the week, weather permitting. A
couple of excellent slope-soaring sites are also available to members.
NWA have a lively diary of events
throughout the year, covering gliding and pattern competitions, scale
and fun-fly days, fly-ins and an "All Models" day when members
are encouraged to bring out their most unusual and least-used models for
all to see! Social events include a barbeque (recently held) and a club
Christmas Dinner.
 This
is the home page of North West's web site, kicking off with a nice
welcome and a column of links to the content of the site. From here you
can browse a variety of pages giving information about the club, diary
dates, access to a new Australia-wide model flight forum and chatroom
called Aeromodellers Australia for which NWA is the host club,
articles, competition results, links, weather reports, contacts and
three galleries, including two rather unusual ones!
The main photo gallery displays some 25
thumbnails of models and club activities, including the BBQ and
Christmas Dinner, and I have put a couple of members' models up on our photo
gallery this time.
Additionally, there is a set of 13 pictures (is
that just coincidence, I wonder?) under the title "Oops!",
and you can guess what they cover! The willingness of model
fliers to show their most horrendous crashes really is a great fun
element of this hobby, I must say!
 The
other unusual gallery is entitled Members and is a pictorial
list of members, each with a brief biogaphy - 41 are shown so far,
almost all with a thumbnail linked to a larger image. Here, I was able
to test that claim that North West Aeromodellers' membership
ranges from pre-school toddlers to 'long since retired'. It was the
pre-school toddlers bit that I was interested in (there's plenty of the
other category in our hobby, I know!), and in the gallery I found this
little chap on the right - young Isaac Skultety, son of club
instructor Alex and thought to be the youngest member of a model
flying club in Australia!
 Here's
the other member I was particularly interested in - Marty Jarvis,
Webmaster, Club Newsletter editor and ModelFlight visitor. Tell
us about that amazing model, Marty!
If you would like to drop in on NWA, go to
http://www.nwaeromodellers.com
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