Three Clubs in One Day

Last Saturday I visited three clubs here in the San Francisco Bay Area so I could meet the modelers and let them meet me.

The first club was the Southern Alameda County Radio Controllers.



One member had this RC duck that seemed fitting since their club setting is on the edge of the Bay.



The same gentlemen is shown here launching his foam jet.



The SAC Rats mascot was this beautiful grey parrot named Charlie shown with my campaign staff.


Next stop was Bayside RC in Union City they are unfortunately losing their field to expansion of our Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system. Their field is slated to become a station.



They are currently in the midst of removing their equipment from the field to meet the end of month deadline they have. My number one priority as District VP will be to work with Bayside and clubs like them to help find and retain fields.



My final stop was the Santa Clara Tomcats. The Tomcats were running an all electric fly-in.



They had all sorts of aircraft all the way from this foamie T-28.



To this big scratch built B-17.



This chopper was interesting. It carried a video camera that was on a remote controlled head that would pan and tilt with the operators head movement.



Here is the camera operator with the motion sensing helmet with integrated viewfinder.



I'll wrap it up today with this beautiful model of the Blue Angel's C-130 support aircraft. It was great meeting all of the modelers and giving them a chance to get to know me.