Welcome
to the Chelmsford Model Flying Association notice board.
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
CMFA Club Night Wednesday February 9th
The Broomfield
Community Centre
(Behind The Angel PH) Broomfield, Chelmsford, Essex. CM1 7AH at 8pm
Important Notice Please
would all members kindly close the gate at the entrance to the club
airfield after entering, also on leaving the flying site. Thank you
CMFA Committee.
June
2011
Anemometer
Members who have visited the flying field recently will have seen the
latest wind speed device that has been completely designed, built, and
installed by club member Andrew Fremont. The anemometer registers wind
speeds of up to 40mph and is powered by a
1900mAHr 4.8V Eneloop battery, and
should give up to 2000hrs of operation before recharging. Well done,
and a big thanks to Andy!
June
2011
Fixed Wing 'B' Test Day
A fixed wing 'B' test
day was arranged for members wishing to further their flying skills
and BMFA achievement. Four members were put through their paces by
club examiners Sean O'Sullivan & Kevin Thompson. The pass rate was a
terrific 100% as each one of the members successfully passed the nerve
racking and gruelling test. Congratulations go's to club members Ricky
Mathew's, Aaron Norman, Stuart Cook, & Mark Ovel.
January
2011
Field tables/safety
benches are being introduced at the flying field to enable members to
work more comfortably on their models when doing minor repairs or
adjustments. The plan is to have possibly up to five tables in total,
three of the tables will be situated at the power square, one larger
table will be
located at the helicopter pit area, and the remaining table may be
positioned in the vicinity of the car park to assist members when
assembling wings etc. The first table was kindly built by club member
Kevin Marshall (photo) who has agreed to build up to 3 more benches over the
next few weeks. Meanwhile club secretary Martin Anthony was also busy
building the second prototype table suitable for slightly smaller
models. All in all the tables have been well received and
should prove useful to all members.
October
2010
Approximately 50 members
turned up for what was a very detailed and interesting presentation by
club member Bob King, at the October club night. Bob demonstrated,
with the use of a photo slide show, the way engine cooling systems had
developed, starting with the very first primitive designs in early
aviation, including aircraft throughout the 1st & 2nd world wars to
the present day sophisticated high-tech engineering of today.
Also included in Bob's talk, was how the design of model aircraft IC
engines had been improved for maximum cooling, and how model aircraft
cowlings could play a major part in engines overheating if
ventilation and installation was not properly carried out. A big thank
you to Bob for an excellent evening.
August
2010
Winter Car Park Extended
The
winter car park area has now been extended at the club flying field.
This should provide an extra 6 - 8 spaces for cars during the winter
months when the ground becomes very wet & boggy. It is important that
members using the winter car park area should park sensibly so as to
maximise the amount of car parking spaces available.
Pot
holes on the track leading from the main road to the car parking area
were also filled with road chippings. Thanks goes to the small team of
merry men who gave up some of their August bank holiday to do the
necessary work. Pictured: L - R Trevor Smith, Clive Kerr, Stuart Cook,
& Martin Anthony.
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.
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 8th October, after a long battle
with Cancer. Our sympathy goes out to his wife Margaret & Mark, Dean,
Neil & Sara.
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.
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.
Welcome
to the Chelmsford Model Flying Association notice board. 
A fixed wing 'B' test
day was arranged for members wishing to further their flying skills
and BMFA achievement. Four members were put through their paces by
club examiners Sean O'Sullivan & Kevin Thompson. The pass rate was a
terrific 100% as each one of the members successfully passed the nerve
racking and gruelling test. Congratulations go's to club members Ricky
Mathew's, Aaron Norman, Stuart Cook, & Mark Ovel.
Field tables/safety
benches are being introduced at the flying field to enable members to
work more comfortably on their models when doing minor repairs or
adjustments. The plan is to have possibly up to five tables in total,
three of the tables will be situated at the power square, one larger
table will be
located at the helicopter pit area, and the remaining table may be
positioned in the vicinity of the car park to assist members when
assembling wings etc. The first table was kindly built by club member
Kevin Marshall (photo) who has agreed to build up to 3 more benches over the
next few weeks. Meanwhile club secretary Martin Anthony was also busy
building the second prototype table suitable for slightly smaller
models. All in all the tables have been well received and
should prove useful to all members.
The
winter car park area has now been extended at the club flying field.
This should provide an extra 6 - 8 spaces for cars during the winter
months when the ground becomes very wet & boggy. It is important that
members using the winter car park area should park sensibly so as to
maximise the amount of car parking spaces available.
Pot
holes on the track leading from the main road to the car parking area
were also filled with road chippings. Thanks goes to the small team of
merry men who gave up some of their August bank holiday to do the
necessary work. Pictured: L - R Trevor Smith, Clive Kerr, Stuart Cook,
& Martin Anthony.
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.