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News, Views & Information - December 2018

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Dear All

Welcome to the last 2018 Newsletter!

Just a few simple words to say this month…

HAPPY CHRISTMAS

See you all at the

Christmas Party !!

Chris.

P.S. if you have a smart phone talk to me (Chris) about KIK (a method for keeping in touch with

other members) at the party. Or download and send a message to the user name in the e-mail

sent with this newsletter I will then add you to the firebords group.

“CHRISTMAS PARTY”

Hamble club

Thursday 13th Dec.

from 7.30….



Committee News

Here’s the latest from the committee room.

Firebirds club fees for 2019

At the December committee meeting the decision was made to reduce the club membership

fees for members re-joining under the current circumstances. The fees will include continued

access to woodlands school, the PADMAC site and social events.

The suggested fees will be presented at the Christmas party for a vote by members.

At the rates to be proposed (subject to renewal numbers) the club may run at a slight loss

during 2019 then relying on its reserves.

The committee are still actively looking for an official / permanent site and it is therefore

proposed that the membership fee will be reviewed when a new flying site is secured. Any

increased fee would only affect new / lapsed members those members already joined / re-

joined will not pay any revised fee until 2020.

Due to the reduced amount proposed there will be no option for 2 payments (post-dated

cheque for half of the fee) as in the past.

Important - Members not renewing before December 31st cannot fly at our sites from January

1st. Any member not paying their membership before the 1st April will be considered as a

having not re-joined and have to re-apply to join the club.

** You can pay at the Christmas party if you bring your cheque book ! **

AGM 2019

The Club's AGM will take place at 8.00pm on Thursday 17th January 2019 at the Hamble Club.

An Agenda and Minutes of the last AGM will be circulated by email before the meeting. The

Agenda will include a vote to elect the 2019 Committee so if anyone is interested in standing,

please contact a current committee member.

Other items for the Agenda must be forwarded in writing (an email will do) to the current

committee by 10th January 2019 at the latest. Only items on the Agenda will be discussed at

the meeting.



PADMAC Site

Our ongoing thanks to PADMAC for keeping us flying..

Bob Farr who is a member of Firebirds and also safety officer at PADMAC let us have a copy of

his annual report, in which we were mentioned.

It’s been a good year so far with no major issues reported, a few crashes,

planes in trees, normal model flying pleasures. I would like to thank all

members for giving me a quiet time by maintaining safe practices, and

sticking to the rules.

I would also like to thank Firebirds members for the respect they shown to

our flying site during the time they are sharing with us.

One last thing regarding the Cows, please be very careful if on your own,

we could have had a very nasty outcome where a flyer, on his own was

circled by the Cows and only just managed to get out of the field

unharmed.

PADMAC Note on Cows…

There are currently no cows in the field over the next few months so there is no need to

switch on the electric fence PADMAC will inform us when this changes.

PADMAC flying times (once initial introduction done with a principle / committee member).

Power Electric/Silent

Mon to Sat 10:00 to 18:00 10:00 to Sunset

Sunday 11:00 to 18:00 11:00 to Sunset

PADMAC rules can be found here. http://www.padmac.info/PADMAC_flyingsite_rules.html



Woodlands school Flying site.

Please note that the facilities at Woodlands will be closed from Monday, 24th December

2018 until Tuesday, 1st January 2019 inclusively, then will reopen as normal from

Wednesday, 2nd January 2019.

Flying times for this weekend.

Saturday 8th December 12:00noon to 3:30pm

Sunday 9th December 10:00am to 3:30pm

The Schools address is….

Woodlands Community College / School. Minstead Avenue, Harefield. SO18 5FW

Toilet facilities are often available.

Poorly club member

Continuing thoughts and good wishes from the committee to all poorly members.

CHRISTMAS DRAW 2018 - £650 worth of prizes confirmed !!

Christmas Draw tickets are now on sale so don't forget to bring some money to the site,

tickets will also be available at the Christmas party (the day of the draw)! It is looking like

there will be £650 worth of prizes so well worth getting a few extra entries.

BALSA BRAIN

Once again the BMFA's Southern Area Balsa Brain Quiz was hosted by the Firebirds in November

attendance was good with the Firebirds putting in 2 teams, unlike last year our teams didn’t

come near the top... At half-time there was an excellent free buffet (funded by the Southern

Area).

At the end of the evening the Southern Area Chairman, Tony Butterworth, thanked the Firebirds

for hosting the event.



FUTURE CLUB NIGHTS - Advance notice

THIS MONTH - December 13th –

Christmas Party evening at the Hamble club, a buffet will be provided.

Next years fees will be confirmed during this meeting and renewal fees can be paid

on the night. Anybody not renewing before the end of December will not be able to

fly from the 1st January. We will also be presenting the yearly awards.

January – 17th

AGM – Please let a committee member know in advance if members would like to

any specific items discussed.

February – 21st

A ‘Double bill’ Pete will be doing a discussion / demonstration on Depron Models

and we will also have Alan’s much awaited ‘movie night’.

A bit of good old fashioned ‘cine’ film for YouTube

Click this link … https://youtu.be/oQ63ikxxd7s

Notice the Newsletter is a bit empty, less interesting?

Please e-mail items for the Newsletter to [email protected].



Some things never change

Last month the picture below was

included in the Newsletter, I am

informed that the 2 lads were

indeed our Russell and his then

trainer John Graham.

Nothing much has changed in

the intervening 15½ years,

Russell is still crashing planes.



Graham McGregor’s trip “Dallas October 2018”

I went to The Commemorative Air force air show in Dallas the other week 27th Oct) when I

was in the USA on holiday...there were some RC models on display although not flying...a

couple of photos attached if they are any good for the newsletter... (certainly are Ed.)



“Merry Christmas” From Pat Parsons



Pat Parson’s Flycatcher progresses...

… but he said “I did not like the tail feather control, so you see the original one, then my mod”

Thanks for your input throught the year Pat, perhaps see you at the Christmas Party ?



This month down at the field

As I haven’t been flying this month and nobody has sent me any pictures from the flying

field…. I thought we could have a lesson in foreign languages…

Here is the word for NO in Various Languages

Afrikaans nee

Albanian jo

Arabic laa

Armenian voch'

Azerbaijani yox /jox

Basque ez

Belarusian nie

Bengali Nā

Bosnian ne

Bulgarian ne

Catalan no

Cebuano dili

Chinese méiyǒu

Croatian ne

Czech ne

Danish ingen

Dutch geen

English no

Esperanto neniu

Estonian ei

Filipino hindi

Finnish ei

French non

Galician non

Georgian ar

German keine

Greek óchi

Gujarati naa

Haitian pa gen okenn

Hausa babu

Hebrew lo

Hindi nahi

Hmong tsis muaj

Hungarian nincs

Icelandic ekki

Igbo ọ dịghị

Indonesian tak ada

Irish níl aon

Italian no

Japanese Īe

Javanese ora

Kannada illa

Khmer a-dtay

Korean ani

Lao bomi

Latin non

Latvian nē

Lithuanian ne

Macedonian ne

Malagasy tsy

Malay tidak

Maltese ebda

Maori kahore

Marathi nāhī

Mongolian ugui

Nepali kunai

Norwegian ikke

Polish nie

Persian nakheyr

Punjabi naheen

Portuguese não

Russian net

Romanian nu

Slovak nie

Serbian ne

Somali no

Slovenian no

Swahili hakuna

Spanish no

Swedish ingen

Tamil enta

Telugu kaadu

Thai m[ ̀

Turkish hayır

Ukrainian nemaye

Urdu jee nahin

Uzbek yo'q

Vietnamese không

Welsh dim

Yiddish qyyn

Yoruba ko si

Zulu no

Don’t worry I won’t be testing you … but some pictures for next month’s newsletter would

be appreciated



Club Information

This section gives a summary of club services and contact details.

Discounted Glow Fuel

Fuel is available through the club and supplies are held by the club. All grades of fuel are

available to order. Russell holds many other useful items: glo-plugs, propellers, glue, fuel

tubing, wing bolts etc.

Russell Lewis 023 8056 1397 [email protected]

Club Meetings

Our meeting venue is the Hamble Club at this address:

Beaulieu Road

Hamble

Southampton

Hampshire, SO31 4JL

The Club requires each member to sign in at every arrival using the book usually kept at the bar.

There is a way round this and that is to join the club. This is not expensive, particularly for OAPs

who pay £8.00 for the first year, and if you live locally it provides a cheap night out!

Local Tree Surgeon

Mathew Cross 01489 799982 or 0778 842 4756. Or one of his team members James. 0749

5033 561.



External Events

If you need more details on any particular event, then go to https://bmfa.org/Contests-

Events/Contest-and-Event-Calendar.

Firebirds Model Club Committee

The following are the contact details for the Committee. Each has given permission for their phone

number and email addresses to be included in this Newsletter.

Chairman Russell Lewis 023 8056 1397 [email protected]

Vice Chair Dave Hoppe 07704 826343 [email protected]

Treasurer Alan Shergold 07973 221915 [email protected]

Secretary Roger Stanton 01489 784152 [email protected]

PRO Peter Clark 01489 692881 [email protected]

Flying Site Rep. Keith Warwick 07887 486040 [email protected]

Safety Officer Geoff Griffiths 023 9265 5931 [email protected]

Membership Sec. Roger Stanton 01489 784152 [email protected]

Regular Open Meetings

There are regular monthly open meetings at the following venues:

Waltham Chase Aeromodellers Indoor R/C Small Models Hampshire

Wessex Soaring Assoc. monthly slope fly-in Wiltshire

FLITEHOOK Indoor Free Flight Meeting Hampshire

See https://bmfa.org/Contests-Events/Contest-and-Event-Calendar for more details.

Firebirds Constitution and Rules.

The Firebirds constitution and rules document can be found at the bottom of the ‘about us’

section on the web-site or by clicking the following link.

http://firebirds.org.uk/onewebmedia/FIREBIRD%20CONSTITUTION%20%26%20RULES.pdf.

Remember… Safe flying is no accident.

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