A quick update on some fundraising initiatives... The team continues to plan for our trip to Australia and we have been running local auctions within our club to help raise funds. As mention in the last blog update, we have our online auction page set up at https://rcplanesforsale.ca/ and will be auctioning off a Supermarine Spitfire on the 7th of February (at our VRCMS club meeting).
In addition, we have added a couple more items to auction off at the March 7th club meeting. They include a Sukhoi SU-31 ARF and a Big Stick 40 ARF.
Most of team members have applied for and received their FAI License's in preparation for the World Championships. This is a basic requirement for anyone competing at this event. We are also getting our preliminary paperwork compiled and ready for submission by February 28th, 2023. This will give the organizers an ideal of team composition, helpers/ supporters etc. for planning purposes.
Construction news.... Henry Piorun has been busy building his latest airframe, a BJ Anthem and if you go to https://www.facebook.com/henry.piorun you can see his build thread. He has another kit right behind this one awaiting construction, a Pavana that replaces the one he lost in a fire. Both will use the Adverrun Contra Drive.
Chad Northeast continues work on his back up Nexus airframe... when he is not looking a ski boat brochures :-) He plans a VLV Contra Drive setup with Thunder Power batteries.
Michi Akimoto has used up his free time to construct a plane storage system in his garage. He used otherwise wasted space to provide a safe location for his many planes!
And.... our alternate pilot Will Gross, is putting in work on his own Nexus Bipe for 2023.