District IV—Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia
Jay Marsh
Vice President
jaymarsh@ama-d4.org
3227 Pine Needles Rd., High Point NC 27265
Tel.: (336) 687-0973; www.amadistrict-iv.org
www.facebook.com/amadistrictIV
It’s time to really enjoy the flying season, and I hope you’re going places to attend events. It’s easy to find events you and your friends would like to attend by using the search features on the AMA website at www.modelaircraft.org/events/calendar.aspx. You can also visit our Facebook page for highlighted events around the district (www.facebook.com/amadistrictIV).
Here are a couple of reports of fun events that took place within the district. Our first report is from associate vice president (AVP) Nic Burhans.
On Saturday, June 24, 2017, the Fauquier Aviation Recreation Modelers (FARM) club held its 2017 Summer Float Fly event. The gathering was held at the Lake Ritchie facility in Bealeton, Virginia. It turned out that this year’s event took place despite tropical depression Cindy, which passed us by and resulted in a beautiful flying day.
As usual, the FARM summer float fly is an open flying event for all AMA members in combination with the club’s annual picnic. In spite of Cindy, 32 boat and aircraft pilots and 37 family/visitors attended the event. States represented included Virginia, Maryland, the District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and North Carolina.
The FARM club’s float-fly events support the Fauquier County Community Food Bank
with nonperishable food items and monetary donations. Here is a link to a video of the event site taken from an Ultra Stick using a 360° camera (https://youtu.be/1mLytgaTtsg). You can pan and tilt using the cursor on your mouse with the left button.
We had a most enjoyable afternoon of model flying, sailing, and boating.
This report comes from AVP David Trogdon.
April in southeastern North Carolina usually means it’s time for the annual Pretty in Pink Fly-In for breast cancer. For the past three years, the event has been held at a field in Tabor City, North Carolina, and cohosted by the Southeastern RC Modelers and the Mt. Elim RC Club from Lumberton, North Carolina. This year, the event was moved to the new club field of the Plane Nutz RC club in Jackson Springs, North Carolina, and was again sponsored by Southeastern Modelers and Pat and Crystal Sessoms of Plane Nutz.
The previous weeks had been windy and the weather forecast didn’t seem promising, but Mother Nature and a lot of prayers gave the club a dry, but windy day for the event that raised more than $4,000 to benefit breast cancer treatment in North Carolina.
David Williams, the contest director, said that he was satisfied that more than 35 pilots registered for this year’s event and the local newspaper, The Montgomery Herald, covered it with a full-page story and photos.
Our generous and faithful supporters again came through and provided us with a vast array of items for both pilots and spectators. It’s always great to see clubs in every region taking the time to support each other’s fly-ins, especially for such an important subject as breast cancer. Shelley Lesniewicz, director of business development for Pretty in Pink, was also on hand with information about the organization.
Associate Vice Presidents: Delaware: John Kirchstein, (302) 731-2831; john@kirchstein.net; Mark Weiss, (302) 547-4917; markw@ama-d4.org; North Carolina: Rick Cawley, (919) 630-1649; racbgc@embarqmail.com; Mark Smith, (704) 798-2776; mark@ama-d4.org; David Trogdon, (910) 654-1220; frogman28472@embarqmail.com; Maryland: Richard “Rick” Moreland, (301) 261-7366; rmoreland1@verizon.net; Virginia: Nic Burhans, (540) 219-9646; nic@ama-d4.org; Randy Elliott, (540) 239-0645; Randy.Elliott@nordsonxaloy.com; Rusty Kennedy, (757) 812-2812; rusty@ama-d4.org; Terry Terrenoire, (412) 760-4593; terry@ama-d4.org; FF AVP: Bob Sowder, (540) 525-7086; bsowder@rbnet.com. CL AVP and FF/CL Event Sanction Coordinator: John Tate, 10 Hanbury Ave., Portsmouth VA 23702; (757) 399-5376; jtate22@cox.net. RC Event Sanction Coordinator: Andy Kane, 305 Natick Ct., Silver Spring MD 20905; (301) 785-3022; andykane01@gmail.com. Webmaster: Jack Upchurch, webmaster@ama-d4.org. Government Relations Coordinator: Ray Stinchcomb, (443) 618-8998; govrelations@ama-d4.org.
