Club Events Photograph Album (1)
We hope you enjoy viewing this page of our photograph album as much as we had making these memories. The album includes photographs taken over the past years and are separated by event. By selecting an event's photograph, you will be able to view a slide show presentation for the event.
Outer Banks Festival of Model Aviation: 09/28/24
Despite the after-effects of Hurricane Helene moving through the area, temperatures in the low-80s and flying conditions throughout the entire day proved to be near-perfect for our pilots and the sixty-three guests who attended the Outer Banks Festival of Model Aviation. The day was filled with excitement, food, and fun as our guests participated in flying and learning about model aviation as a family-friendly and educational recreational activity.
Each festival attendee provided at least one non-perishable food item as admission to the event, with these items being collected by Beach Food Pantry board-member Adrienne Palma, to aid local residents in-need.
Eleven club members and five family members worked at the event in various roles to make it a safe, rewarding, and enjoyable day for all. Diane Yanacek, Paul Yanacek, and Mary Alexander welcomed, checked-in and socialized with our guests while Virgil Kee directed his efforts to the youngest attendees to explain how an airplane flies and how a radio control aircraft works. Mike Alexander worked with attendees on a flight-simulator station that was set-up in our storage shed while Bernie Feaganes, Pete Carros, and Philip Garey performed the demanding task as flight-instructors, supervising our first-time guest fliers. Robert Yanacek and Mike Douglas photographed the day's activities to provide everyone with good memories to share. John Watkins worked to ensure that our club's flight instructors had fully-charged batteries while club president, Jim Davis, supervised the overall event activities and assisted in various roles as needed. Jim, along with Richard Boyd, thrilled our guests with a number of flight demonstrations that included aerobatics, high-speed flight with an electric-duct-fan jet, and a simulated pylon race.
Thirty-two of our guests took advantage of the opportunity to try flying a radio control airplane for the first time, under the watchful eyes of one of the club's three flight instructors. All those who flew, including a youngster who was just three years old, flew very well and without incident.
Around noon, attendees were treated to a lunch prepared by John Silva, Skip Wescott, and Matthew Yanacek, consisting of hamburgers, hot dogs, chips, and beverages. Our food preparation team did an excellent job in ensuring that everyone was well-fed.
After lunch, flight operations with our guests continued, along with a number of crowd-pleasing demonstrations performed by Bernie Feaganes with his large-scale Supermarine Spitfire and Mitsubishi A6M Type-0 aircraft, and by Mike Douglas with his highly-maneuverable helicopter.
Following the day's flying activities, our club conducted a drawing to determine the three guest attendee winners of our no-cost try-to-fly raffle. Unfortunately, none of the winners were present to claim their prize, however, all three will be notified shortly.
The grand prize winner of our raffle will be receiving a 1.2-meter ready-to-fly Apprentice S2 airplane, a one-year membership in the Academy of Model Aeronautics, and membership in our club.
The second and third place winners will also be receiving a slightly-smaller ready-to-fly airplane, along with one-year membership in the Academy of Model Aeronautics, provided they demonstrate their desire to continue in model aviation by applying for membership in our club.
A separate raffle event to determine the winners of a 1.5-meter Air-Tractor and a smaller Twin-Otter radio control plane was also conducted. The winners of these two prizes will also receive notification shortly.
Our club wishes to thank everyone who participated in, and made this event so successful. Your donations for admission to the event for the Beach Food Pantry are greatly appreciated and will undoubtedly assist this worthy organization that does so much to help our local residents. We enjoyed meeting and flying with all of our guests, and we hope that you will fly with us again in the near future. We also wish to recognize the Academy of Model Aeronautics Foundation, Horizon Hobby, and Legend Hobby for their generosity in providing event funding and prize donations.
