Fun Fly Report 2008
We had a few dozen pilots
show up for both Saturday and Sunday this
year and a handful of guests and potential new members each day as
well. The event was photographically documented by our
webmaster/newsletter editor Jim Corbett, who promptly posted everything
on the website.
We had 27 gift certificates from Eugene Toy and Hobby that we purchased
at a discount and handed out about half of them. We held contests
for
slalom taxiing around cones, (yours truly won that event on the second
day after a miserable defeat the first day) spot landing, and a
poker-type contest. For the poker game, you used the cards
that were
distributed after flights - one card per flight or participation in one
of the other events. Some people went away with enough to pay for
damages incurred during the contests, and one pilot crashed two
aircraft the second day, (I won't name Marty as the pilot, because that
would be rude) and we could not have given him enough gift certificates
for that damage! Bill Hollingsworth and I tried some combat on
day 2.
My streamer separated during the flight and none of us were really sure
whether it came apart on its own or if Bill got me.
Overall, it was a great success because everyone seemed to have a
really good time despite the excessive heat on the first day and the
crosswind from the south on the second day. My gratitude to the
members that helped make the event such a success: Doug McWha, Chuck
Jenkins, Al Barrington, Mel Thompson, Jim Corbett, just to name a few,
and my apologies if I left someone out who deserves a good ol' pat on
the back for a job well-done.
Patrick Willis
ERCA President 2007-2008
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