Tag: Hillbilly Hotline
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Rockets Away!
We had a visit from members of the Winfield High School Rocketry Club and their teacher, Mrs. Abbott, this afternoon. This is shaping up to become a regular event at Hillbilly Field.
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December 2023 – January 2024
Dinner & December Meeting The FHRCC Christmas Dinner was held on December 16th with 16 members and guests in attendance. Service at the Italian Grille was strikingly slow, but the food was great once it arrived, and the fellowship in the interim was top notch. Ballots for the club’s 2024 officers were collected, and it…
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William A. Blake 1945-2023
We are deeply saddened to report the October 7th passing of FHRCC member, Bill Blake. Bill was a tremendous asset to the club, and a great friend to all of us. There will be a memorial service held at 12:00 noon on Thursday October 12th at The Donel C. Kinnard Memorial State Veteran’s Cemetery in…
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Night Fly
FHRCC had a well-attended BBQ dinner and night-fly on Saturday, October 7, 2023. (Little did we know, this was to be a preview of the upcoming frozen fingers fly-in…)
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Church Group Visit
FHRCC hosted a group from Freedom’s Promise Ministries on Saturday, August 26th. We ate and enjoyed fellowship, did some demo flights, and several of our guests tried their hand at RC flying. The event was well-attended, and everyone had a great time. In other news, the porta-john which was destroyed by vandals has been replaced…
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Meeting Announcement
There will be a meeting at the field, Saturday, July 22, at 10:00am. Items on the agenda include the upcoming Mountaineer Fun Fly, participation in the Jackson’s Mill event, field maintenance, and the recent vandalism at the field and what we’re doing about it.
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Photos from JOK 2023
Photos from Jets Over Kentucky, courtesy of Tony Eagle: https://photos.app.goo.gl/7DSa9nmCVKgxb8zN6
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Float-Fly Photos
Wonderful photos of our June 17 float-fly at Ridenour can be found here, courtesy of guest flyers Jim Butler and Adam Ketchem from the Mountaineer RC Club.
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June 2023 Activities
We had a pre-event night-fly at Hillbilly Field on Friday the 9th, followed by a well-attended fly-in on Saturday the 10th, and a successful night float-fly at Ridenour Lake on Saturday the 17th. Between those two events, AMA announced that they’ve begun accepting FRIA applications for secondary flying sites, and FHRCC’s application for Ridenour is…
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May 2023 Meeting
A meeting was held at the field on May 6, 2023. Mike Eden read the treasurer’s report, which indicates that FHRCC has about $2,300 in the bank. We discussed adding admin-moderation to the FHRCC Facebook group to control spam posts. Mike Spencer briefed us on the status of FHRCC’s FAA-Recognized Identification Area (FRIA) application. All…