Welcome to the home page of the

Royal County Aeromodeller’s web site.

A new heading picture graces our Home page. It is a pic of Captain Damian Roche (or maybe

Corporal Damian Roche!! ) giving the all clear to the ground staff of the CASA Maritime Patrol

Aircraft as used by the Irish Air Corps. Damian and Bill were lucky to be invited to a special

Commemorative event for the pilots and ground staff who worked with the De Havilland

Vampire jet as used by the Air Corps during the 50s and 60s. This included a visit and air show

by a Vampire specially invited over for the occasion. I will have more pics and videos from

the day later during the week.

This month we update the Bits & Pieces section with some pictures taken recently at

Weston Airport. Bill went along and attended the Scale Association’s AGM and joined

the Association. After the talking there was a tour of the airport under the guidance

of Steve Quigley. We were able to view up close and personal such full size aeroplanes

as the DC3 Dakota, Blackburn Buccaneer fighter bomber of the 60’s period of the

Royal Navy.

We then visited the hangers and were able to view a range of full size aircraft. I have

put up a lot of pictures with captions in this section. For €25 annual membership,

joining the Association was good value but the tour thrown in was the icing on the cake !!

Our club field has seen a fair bit of activity recently with flying in earnest most Sunday

mornings apart from those with really bad weather. We have had our fair share of that

also. With little or no growth on the strips, we have not even cut grass yet at this point

in time.

As we head into May, we will start to see the gradual influx of our turfing

neighbours as they start the harvesting of the turf. This will bring a heightened need

to be even more vigilant on the safety side of things. Please remember the following:

NO INSURANCE ? ABSOLUTELY NO FLYING.

NO ‘A’ CERTIFICATE ? ABSOLUTELY NO FLYING WITHOUT AN ‘A’ CERT NEARBY

Feel free to visit and contribute to our Online Forum, especially in the Member’s

Area where some interesting topics have been raised. If you dont have a Login

then email me and I will arrange it.

On behalf of the Committee, may I wish you all a Safe Flying Year ahead.

Bill Thompson (Secretary & WebMaster) (14^th April 2010)