Welcome to the website of the

Boldon Community Association

Model Aircraft Club.The club has

been in existence since 1975 and

currently has two fields for outdoor

flying and facilities in

the Community

Centre for indoor

flying, both free flight and radio controlled.

The website has recently been completely rebuilt

using the Xara Web Designer software and now has

much improved navigation features as well as the

ability to display text and graphics in a more flexible way.

Photograph and video galleries make use of the Youtube and Flickr

sites respectively and these have proved popular on the original

club website.

Please feel free to make any constructive criticism (go to the

Contacts page to find the club email link).

Club 391

For some time I have considered writing an editorial so here it is! There are two

points I would like to cover:

First is to mention the splendid atmosphere that exists on our flying field these

days. Everyone is so keen to help out the less experienced members and not only

to learn to fly. The hobby is getting very technical especially in the electric power

and new transmitter frequency fields. There is always someone willing to explain

and/or give a helping hand. Some years ago I was one of the only members using

electric propulsion for flying power models and I’m afraid to say I stuck with the old

technology (probably because of my age). Gradually I’ve invested in some

brushless motors but haven’t got around to LIPO batteries yet. But now I’m

thinking about getting into the 21st. century and theres one thing I’m sure about. I

won’t be short of help or advice.

Secondly, due probably to my outdated, worn out NiCad flight pack I lost a model

in head high vegetation last Sunday. I searched in vain without success but on

returning to the pits, on discovering that a model was lost a group of my young

friends immediately set out to search. They were successful and brought back a

damaged airframe with all of the hardware intact. A splendid effort for which I am

very grateful. I am currently in the process of repairing but as I said in the previous

paragraph I am intending to bring the hardware up to date and will be very

pleased to receive the necessary help and advice.