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This will be used to pass on information and instant messages between club members who visit the site regularly, keeping them up to date on events and current issues that they may wish to know about. If any club member wishes to post a message on the board of their own, please email the information to the following address: webmaster@cmfa.org.uk

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The Broomfield Community Centre

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March
2010

Almost 50 members attended the CMFA March club meeting and were treated to a very interesting talk by Colin Straus from Ripmax. Colin's presentation was about turbine powered models which included the installation of turbines, the on-board ancillaries required to operate them and also the costs involved in turbines and suitable models. Colin brought along with him his model of a turbine powered Boomerang Jet that he also demonstrated by starting up outside the meeting hall, and describing the effects of the controls when using the transmitter when flying. Colin actually flew this particular model at the club field last year and one of the clubs members filmed the flight as seen below. A big thank you to Colin for an excellent evening.

March 2010 Club Night

January
2010

Despite icy road conditions the January meeting and belated Christmas buffet was well attended. Approximately 35 members enjoyed a social evening of food, drink and a raffle draw. Thanks goes to everyone involved in organising the evening in particular, our power representative Ricky Matthews and wife Shelly for laying on a superb spread.

October
2009

Dave Mason

It is with great sadness that I have to report, Dave passed away in St Clare’s Hospice on the 8^th October, after a long battle with Cancer. Our sympathy goes out to his wife Margaret & Mark, Dean, Neil & Sara.

Dave Mason Dave had several passionate interests in life, Model Aircraft, Motor Racing, Sports Cars & latterly his family.

Aircraft with model aircraft predominating were his main interest. Like a lot of aero modellers, of his generation, he was very aircraft minded & discovered Fairlop Aerodrome, in the late 40’s That was the Mecca for model flying in the London area, up to the mid 50’s. He was a member of the Chingford Model Flying Club, his local club, for many years & Anglia MFC, at the same time. Who can forget the Dinner & Dances he organised for the Chingford Club at Chesney’s in Chingford, into the early 90’s.

In his late teens he acquired an MG TD, which he later changed to his pride & joy an MGB Roadster, red with wire wheels, that he was driving when we first became friends.

All who flew at Wanstead Flats, or Chingford Plains in the 60’s, remember him turning up on, in the MGB packed with models in the dickey seat, wearing his peaked cap, to keep his hair immaculate after a trip to the barber. Very suave & debonair, but a less likely modellers mode of transport is hard to imagine.

Dave Mason He worked in the model trade over some years, at Hobbies Store in London, Aviacolour at Gants Hill, Saturn Models in Colchester then finally for Crescent Models in Burnham on Crouch. He then drove buses for LT until his retirement.

I never saw anything, get him down & he was a great person to count as a friend. To this end we shared a set of radio control gear when it was very expensive (approx 6 months wages) in the late 60’s, never having a cross word over who would fly next, with it at any given time.

His cheery demeanour, to all & sundry will be sadly missed by those who knew him, especially his friends in the Essex Quiet Flight Association & Chelmsford MFA plus his many acquaintances in the modelling world.

Brian Austin

February
2009

The Club is regularly sending out emails to members updating them on up and coming events. If members have not been getting these emails it may be because that some of the addresses we have may be incorrect, or we do not not have an email address for that member. Please may we ask that members not receiving information please contact Peter Harrington (PRO), or Martin Anthony (Secretary). Also if members are aware of forthcoming events can they please forward the details on to friends or other members in the club who may not have access to the internet.

Chelmsford Guide