Charlie Hayes - Life Member

Charlie Hayes was awarded Life Member Status by GAMA members at a meeting held at the flying field on 23 February for dedicated service to GAMA.

Charlie tirelessly has taken on the job of keeping our fuel inventory replenished over the past several years. He makes those long trips to Hodges Hobbies, picks up the fuel and delivers it to the field house. Our members depend on club fuel to be available year round.

Charlie is always eager to help flyers that are having trouble with hard starting engines and help with minor repairs and is a frequent flyer most week ends year round . He is a dedicated modeler and probably enjoys flying Radio Control Aircraft above anything else.

Charlie was presented a plaque from the club to record his new membership status.

Fancherized Twister - By Mike Griffin

Another Control Line Project By Mike Griffin. Showing off his new aircraft in the front yard while his neighbors are going to work. It is wonderful to be retired!

Warbirds Over Fort Valley 2 - Keith Lindsay

More pictures from our Warbirds Over Fort Valley event in December 2007 provided by Keith Lindsay. If you click on the images they display their original size in a new window.

New shelters Installed at GAMA flying field

New shelters were installed at the field this past Tuesday, 12 February. Andrew Wendt took on this project; it was done quickly, probably quicker then Andy had expected. Come on out to the field and see them for yourself! Andy provided the pictures, great job Andy. Thanks

Warbirds Over Fort Valley

We promised a few pictures from the Warbirds Over Fort Valley event 13-14 December. Well, here they are. It was a great event with 26 registered pilots. Unfortunately Saturday was a bust because of the bad weather but overall everyone seem pleased.

The Forerunner - By Mike Griffin

This is a design called The Forerunner and was originally designed to use a foam wing. I did not want to use a foam wing so I decided to build the plane from scratch using the following modifications. I had someone laser cut a set of ribs for me using only to root and tip ribs as a template. I made the wing 2 1/2" thick which was considerably thicker than the original foam wing. The fusalage I cut as originally designed but I did increase the size of the tail feathers. I covered the wing with Polyspan and the fuselage, stab and rudder are covered with silkspan. There is a total of 8 coats of nitrate dope and thinner on the wing and almost that many on the rest of the plane. The final undercoat was a light coat of Rustoleum grey auto primer which I lightly sanded with 320 grit sandpaper. The color is Rutoleum enamel and the final coat is Rustoleum Crystal Clear enamel which gives it a high shine. From start to finish it took 6 months to build and finish this plane. Many thanks are due to Dave Shad who spent many hours in my gargage helping me out with this project.

New Fence Installed at Control Line Area

Recent barrier fence added to Control Line Area