{"id":286,"date":"2012-07-18T15:19:46","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T15:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amaclubs\/?p=286"},"modified":"2012-07-18T17:28:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T17:28:09","slug":"chuckatuck-airstrip-is-home-to-a-fleet-of-fliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amaclubs\/2012\/07\/18\/chuckatuck-airstrip-is-home-to-a-fleet-of-fliers\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuckatuck airstrip is home to a fleet of fliers"},"content":{"rendered":"
The love of flying binds the 90 some members the Hampton Roads Radio Control, Inc. together to share their passion at an airfield near Chuckatuck on a regular basis.<\/div>\n

HRRC members fly all manner of model planes \u2014 with internal combustion engines, glowplug engines feeding on nitro-methanol, and electric-powered ones. Some members are highly accomplished at aerobatics \u2014 loops, barrel rolls, spins \u2014 and many own considerably more than one aircraft.<\/p>\n

One recent Wednesday at the Pembroke Lane airfield, which the city of Suffolk helped the club establish a little over 20 years ago, members held a community outreach event with kids from the Lone Star Lakes youth camp.<\/p>\n

\u201cProbably for the last four or five years, they will come out here and we will do some demonstrations and put a couple of trainers up with a \u2018buddy box,\u2019\u201d Club Vice President Mills Staylor says.<\/p>\n

For many of the youngsters \u2014 even though an experienced pilot was also plugged into the buddy-box controls, at the ready to correct any abrupt nosedives or death spirals \u2014 it was their first time flying a radio-controlled plane.<\/p>\n

One of their youngest members has said, \u201cIt\u2019s just fun.\u201d \u00a0Another long-time modeler and member explains why he devotes about half of his week to the hobby, \u201cit gives me something to do, and it\u2019s good, clean fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like other clubs, HRRC club members believe that being part of their club is being part of a brother or sisterhood, and it helps keep the spirit of aviation strong.<\/p>\n

To Read more about the Hampton Roads Radio Control club, check-out this article, featuring their programs:\u00a0 https:\/\/www.suffolknewsherald.com\/2012\/07\/17\/up-in-the-sky\/<\/a><\/p>\n

The AMA would like to thank this club, and all of our other clubs that go the extra mile to promote the hobby and the AMA. If you are planning an event, and are looking for assistance, check out our Reward and Recognition Program<\/a> to see how the AMA will reward you for your dedication to promoting aeromodeling.<\/p>\n

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The love of flying binds the 90 some members the Hampton Roads Radio Control, Inc. together to share their passion at an airfield near Chuckatuck on a regular basis. HRRC members fly all manner of model planes \u2014 with internal combustion engines, glowplug engines feeding on nitro-methanol, and electric-powered ones. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001007,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,103,104,102],"tags":[60,69,36],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ama-district-iv","category-media","category-suffolk-living","category-virginia","tag-buddy-box","tag-fun-fly","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amaclubs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amaclubs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amaclubs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amaclubs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001007"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amaclubs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amaclubs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amaclubs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amaclubs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amaclubs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amaclubs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}