[tccrockets] Re: DA 2014 Presidents Report
- From: aaron hagadorn <hagadornclassics@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "tccrockets@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <tccrockets@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 18 May 2014 22:43:41 -0700
Well said James! I also just want to thank everybody for coming out and
flying.
Just a few numbers here from Friday and Saturday
Friday we had 27 Flights overall
Saturday was busy
Low Power was 178 flights
High Power was 122 flights
Breaks down like this:
E - 1
F - 6
G - 19
H - 24
I - 15
J - 20
K - 18
L - 2
M - 11
Unknown - 6
and 22 of these flights were certification flights.
Now this was all Saturday! :)
We did have a great turn out and now lets all start prepping for OS 2014
Aaron
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 7:18 PM, James Dougherty <jafrado@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I wanted to shout out and thank everyone for the terrific launch we had
> this weekend - we had a great turn-out on all days, and we had some extra
> help this time setting up and tearing down!
>
> Mike Gentile (BAR) showed up and he an Marcus kept everyone happy and in
> stock with loads, kits, motors and has agreed to show up as our vendor from
> now on at our launches!
>
> Gene Engelgau (Fruity Chutes) came and also kept every stocked with
> recovery gear as well as helped out on all days for LCO/RSO duties - thank
> you Gene!
>
> Separately, the wonderful support we got from John Kelly and his troop was
> second to none, those guys cooked around the clock, kept everyone fed, and
> even went out of their way to give us help when we asked - these guys are
> troopers and my hats off to them, thanks again for your support and we look
> forward to seeing you at October Skies.
>
> John came from Visalia hobbies and had an awesome fleet of Estes, high end
> RC aircraft and all sorts of cool stuff - thanks again John for you support
> and we hope you will come again at October Skies.
>
> Special thanks to our Aaron Hagadorn, Mike Smith, Ron Swenson and family,
> Bruce Rohn, Richard King, Jimmy and Chris Franco, Ben Sandoval, Gene
> Engelgau, Randy T and everyone else who helped out, you folks rock and it
> was such a pleasure working with you all to have such a wonderful event!
>
> Finally, I wanted to send a special thanks to Jack Garibaldi (our Former
> President and #1 Dealer) for showing up, providing some
> extra-special-once-in-a-lifetime deals and of course helping out for
> everything as he usually does.
>
> A lot of folks thanked Aaron and I this weekend for the terrific launch
> and how great it was and I just wanted to let you all know that we had a
> great role model. It was really sad and the end of an era seeing Jack's
> trailer empty but the good news is that (as he said) - now he will have
> some more time to fly rockets and get back to the hobby he loves so much.
>
> We had a great club meeting after the teardown today and agreed on some
> new things to make the club more efficient and get better turn-out and
> help, Aaron and I will post more on that along with a report some time this
> week.
>
> Thanks again, and stay tuned later this week for more details.
>
> -James
>
>
>
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