What's New/Latest Developments

The February Newsletter has been posted... go get it. The file is about 800 K in size, so it may take a few minutes to download.

The next club meeting is Friday, March 12th, at 7:30 pm. The meeting will be at the Fairland Sports and Aquatics Complex. Come join us for some pizza and lots of airplane talk afterwards at Pizza Hut!

Gary Heath has scheduled an FSA tour of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. We are doing pretty much the same thing we did last year, it was a lot of fun last time, and it will be again.

The trip is Saturday, February 13th. We need to meet just inside the museum at 10 am.

The museum is free, but parking is $15 per car. So anyone who wants to carpool should meet at the field at 9 am, which gives us plenty of time to get organized and get to the museum by 10 am.

If you're planning to attend, please let Kirk Adams or Gary Heath know so they can get a rough head count.

Carl Siefring, PGRC Secretary, said their event for Saturday, February 27th has been cancelled due to bad weather, and will be rescheduled on April 3rd.

Rob Clark will be hosting a Movie Night Saturday, March 6th. Space is limited, so please RSVP. Two movies, 12 O'Clock High and Memphis Bell will be shown. Finger food and soft drinks will be served. Movies begin at 7:00 pm sharp. Seating is at a premium, so please bring a folding chair. Contact Rob at rotorheadbob AT mac DOT com or 301 758 6637.

From Kirk Adams:

We have rented the Laurel Armory for an indoor fly-in on Saturday, March 20th. The event will run from 1:00 pm until 4:00 pm.

To cover the rental cost, there will be a $10 fee to fly.

The Armory has a plastic tile gym floor, and is a bit bigger than a basketball court in size. As a result, only slow-flying indoor airplanes and helicopters will be allowed to fly. No carbon fiber rotor blades or props that might cut the flooring will be allowed.

The Laurel Armory is located on the corner of Montgomery and 5th streets, next to the Laurel Elementary School. The address is 422 Montgomery Street, Laurel.

Be aware that if you put the address in Google Maps, you will get a slightly off location, so be sure to check for the corner with 5th St.

Thanks to Jerry Richards for taking care of the City of Laurel's paperwork to allow this event to occur.

Kirk

At the October, 2009 club meeting, the club voted on and approved a modest increase in yearly membership dues. Prior to this increase, dues had not increased during the last 10 years or so.

Single Adult Membership is now $75 for the year Family Membership is now $85. The new member fee and the late renewal fee remain at $25.

The new fees go into effect for the 2010 season, Earl Nester reminds us that dues can be sent in now, so long as you have renewed your AMA membership. He will not send out membership cards until he can verify that your AMA membership is up to date.

Click on the link to download the 2010 FSA Membership Form. Print out the form, fill it out, and send to the address at the bottom of the form.

Want to look at some great photos of FS
's Airplane of the World? Photographer Jerry Turner took almost 400 pictures which can be see at his website.

From Kirk Adams...

"We now have shirts and mugs with the FSA logo available at Cafe Press at at this link.

If you were at the last meeting, you saw a prototype shirt that I had made. Since then, I improved the image size and quality, so these shirts should look better that what I had at the meeting."

Kirk

The 2010 club renewal form is now ready for download. I have made it available in both MS Word Format and in PDF Format.

I have also included the 2009 AMA safety Code.