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The Riverside RC Club (RRCC) has about 70 members from the Inland Empire area of Southern California, roughly 50 miles east of Los Angeles. Our flying field is near Perris, south of Riverside. We welcome all RC modelers and other interested people to explore our website, to join our club and to visit our field. Our members' interests encompass most areas of RC aircraft modeling, including Sport, Scale, Pattern, IMAC, Helicopters, Jets, Gliders, Electrics and Float-flying.
(Click Here) for local weather at our field. _______________________________________________________________________________________ NOTICE- March Field Air Museum schedules an Aviation-Related Tour of Europe in June, 2015 This tour contains goodies like the Paris Air Show, The Imperial War Museum's Aviation Branch in Duxford, the "Chunnel" under the English Channel, the Normandy WWII Invasion Beaches, The Musee de Armee (largest war museum in Europe), and much, much more. (Click Here) for a flyer with more detail. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Notice - A home in Hemet is for sale, which has a "Dream" hobby room, 20x40 feet! (Click Here) __________________________________________________________________________________ NOTICE - (From Jim Bronowski) - Vandalism at our Field
Club Members,
We are continuing to have vandalism
problems at our field and it seems to be late on Monday nights.
This last Monday someone observed at least six cars at the field
with a big fire going on the runway. There was more damage to
the runway with this fire just like the last ones. Larry
Roberts has notified the police and they have come out twice to
survey the damage. If you happen to observe activity at our
field at night, especially a fire, do not!, I repeat, do not! go
to the field. Notify the police, or better yet, the fire
department (if there is a fire). Larry is working very hard
with local authorities to try and get a handle on this
situation.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Notice to Club Members - At the Club Meeting on April 19, 2014, it was decided to take some measures to increase membership and stimulate public interest in RRCC and its activities. A committee will be formed at the next meeting on May 17th, 2014, to consider various ideas for achieving these goals and to make recommendations to the club membership. Those with ideas to consider, or interested in joining the committee, should contact Oscar Weingart at weingart1@earthlink.net. Some ideas discussed at the meeting included: (1) An Open House, or Air Show, with food service, at the field, with trainers available to allow the public to fly a RC model. (2) Posters and flyers to be distributed to local hobby shops. (3) Establishing relationships with local schools. (4) Articles and event listings in local newspapers. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ . _____________________________________________________ |
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Notice - UCR Engineering
Autonomous UAV Project
Come to the July 19 club meeting for a UAV TEAM report on the Competition!!!! See the upcoming July Prop talk for a full Report. Our Club has been approached by a group of Engineering students from the University of California, Riverside, (UCR), for assistance with a competition to be held in early June at the U.S. Naval Air Station, Patuxent River, MD. The Competition is sponsored by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI), Seafarer Chapter. See http://www.auvsi-seafarer.org/documents/2014Documents/2014_AUVSI_SUAS_Rules_Rev_1.0_FINAL_13_1024_1.pdf for the rules for the competition (Click Here) or (Click Here) for a News release. forThe tasks for the competition involve autonomous flight of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, (UAV), in a scenario simulating a forest fire. UCR has selected an electric-powered Senior Telemaster RC model as their UAV. UCR has asked for assistance from the club in evaluating the UAV for airworthiness, and in training their safety pilots to fly it under RC control. At the March 15 club meeting, a motion was made and passed to furnish such help, and the use of our field, as long as the pilots are AMA members, and the UAV meets all applicable AMA/FAA/FCC/RRCC rules for such UAVs. The training and test flights ended on June 13, and the competition started on June 18. Jim Bronowski accompanied the UCR Team as Safety Pilot. For more detail, including a Press-Enterprise article, see the latest Prop Talk, July, 2014 (Click Here). LATEST UPDATE Jim Bronowski submitted the following report on the AUVSI competition on nJune 24: Well guys, I'm finally back. After long, exhausting and late flights, time zone changes and lots of driving, I drug myself home at midnight last night (3 AM Eastern time). Our young engineers did very well for their first time, 24th out of 36 competing. There were another 10 teams that did not show or were unable to get their models airborne. UCR won $1000 for their 24th position. I was very nervous and had to take off and land three times during our flight time. A bad compass connection cost us a few points, but overall, we did very well against some of the top engineering colleges in the U.S., Israel, India and Canada. The boys could not stop thanking our club for all the assistance, without which, they would not have even made the trip. The old Telemaster has become a good friend of mine. They took Larry's advice and straightened the landing gear and the wing. It flew perfectly. The old bird enjoyed flying against the big boys and kept on ticking like a fine watch.
We had some time to tour Washington and
the Smithsonian aviation museums (there are two) and
it was worth all the stress and time involved. I did
fill a handkerchief at the Vietnam Memorial as I
attempted to find closure with the loss of three of my
dear friends whose names are etched on that marble.
Anyway, my aches and tiredness will go
away, but those great memories will stay with me for a
long, long time. SKI...
Now for a few pictures:
UCR UAV Team T-Shirt shows RRCC logo 10 Team Members attended the competition Russell and Daniel make Oral Presentation to Judges  
At Left, Working on the Telemaster
at the Competition. Below - Russell Perry (left) and Daniel Robles (right) work on the first Senior Telemaster UAV. It flew later, nice and straight, piloted by Jim Bronowski, but crashed and had to be replaced. They will make a presentation about their experiences at the AUVSI Competition at the next Club Meeting on July 19th.
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Note: The Latest Prop Talk, July, 2014 is out (Click Here) Website last updated 7/21/14 |
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