TRCM Meeting Minutes Feb 2024

                                          TRCM Meeting Minutes Febuary 3 2024

                                                                   10:00 am

I. Call to order:      10:03     With 13 members present, plus 7 stragglers.

II. Announcements from the floor:      None

III. Visitors and new members           None

IV. Officer reports

     President:  Mark Huntley  Absent

     Vice President:   Neil Gates   Assumed the roll as president to conduct the meeting.

     Secretary:  Al Doucette         None

     Treasurer:  Bob Keller   Club solvent and treasury will grow as 2024 dues filter in.  Request that everyone update their e-mail address.  Gate combination will be changed after next meeting.  

      Field marshall:   Randy Laney and Anthony Green   There are plans to cut the grass and weeds on the edge of the runway, as soon as it stops raining.  No information about the runway.        

      Safety coordinator:  Nick Clayton  Reminds everyone to be safe.

      Webmaster:    Neil Gates

V.  Old business:   Don Brown showed his Pattern airplane and explained the difference between IMAC and Pattern. Of course, if you’ve been in the club for the past few years, you’ve watched, or been part of the IMAC contests we hold a couple times each year.  Pattern is different, in that, the planes are smaller, wingspan not larger than 2 meters, are not to scale and can be electric. There are no set maneuvers. The maneuvers, chosen by the pilot, are judged.  Is much easier than IMAC, but the takeoffs and landings are judged.

   It was announced, at the last meeting, that we would draw raffle tickets until someone found the joker to win the AT-6 airplane.

 VI.  New Business:  Upcoming events TRCM will be hosting.  The IMAC events June, 8^th & 9^th and September 7^th & 8^th.  We will also be hosting an NRSC Pattern event.  Don’t know the date yet.

VII.  Show and tell:  Don Brown brought his new Pattern plane.

VIII.  Awards:

   Name that Plane:   None

    Ace:  Nominations:    None, the ACE award has not been returned.

    Oops award: Nominations    I must apologize, I did not get the names of the two members who were nominated, along with Bob Keller.  One member landed his Hawker Typhoon, short of the runway, tearing off his landing gear, when his eyes started watering so bad, he couldn’t see to land.  Another member, spirled his Franken Stick 12 inches into the mud, after losing radio signal.  Captain K did a great job of selling Bob, with his embellishment of observance of Bob’s Yo-

Can-Do 60, spireling into the ground, burying the engine 18 inches in the mud.  Of course, Bob was the winner.  Bob said it took him about 3 hours to clean the engine.   

   Fence award: Nominations   None

Adjourn & raffle     Meeting adjourned at 10:41

   Once again, I had a chance to draw to win the airplane, but no luck.  I can’t recall how many tickets were drawn, but Dick Anderson’s tickets were drawn three times, before he finally found the joker. on the third try.  Congratulations Dick,  enjoy your new airplane.

Albert Doucette, Secretary