Thanks Richard,
yes! Top of the list is a new pop-up; King Canopy is great, something with
beefier frames.
-James
On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 9:14 PM, Richard King <drrbk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
While the size of our pop-up is great.........the price was great.........
the weight was great........ it was way too flimsy and probably already
damaged from the last windy day. Lesson learned.
RK
*From:* James Dougherty
*Sent:* Wednesday, December 21, 2016 9:05 PM
*To:* TCC chat
*Subject:* [tccrockets] TCC Presidents Report
Hey Folks,
Please find below some club updates for everyone and recap of discussions
at our Party.
Finance
As Richard mentioned, we have about $10K in the bank - some things we plan
to do this year
- Something nice for Steve
- New Wireless launch system
- New Trailer
- New PA with FM Broadcast
Other items folks think we need, let me or Aaron know.
Website -
We will go live after you guys test it out, please see below:
http://www.tccrockets.com/v2
Please visit http://www.tccrockets.com/v2 to give it a shot - make sure
you register and put just your name, email information in here and your
account will get approved if you've already signed up to freelists.org
(which means we have your info already).
Some cool features:
- New look and feel
- Banners we will update every month (I pre-populated what I can from some
shots I found worthy of front page)
- We will have auto-post FB syndication, a chat room, and the ability to
post articles
- All the content will be there, just slightly reorganized and with a new
Fly theme
- Members, they can post their own content and we can have all sorts of
media and videos to make it fun
- Build articles/forum - that will be there too
Like I said at the Party, all of you folks who take a lot of killer
pictures, I want you all to start posting on the new website and driving
traffic to our site and to facebook; it will get more people out at the
launch and drive team support and revenue. One thing though, if you took
pictures at a TCC launch, post to our site first, when it shows up on the
TCC FB Page, you can always share t to TRA or NAR.
The point is that if you took pictures at our launch, please have the
courtesy to give us credit for it since it will drive revenue to the launch.
New FAA Altitude Waivers
- Like I said, I'm working on getting more Altitude for us - no commitment
yet, but we will see
Prefects
Gary Walker and Bruce Rohn are our Prefect's, they swap turns every year
or so, it is a LOT of work.This year, Bruce is back and will be our
Prefect, next year it will be Gary. I want everyone to give all of these
guys a great thank you, they help everyone get their certs done, run a lot
of the launch and handle technical questions all day, most importantly they
keep everyone safe and sane and keep the launch running.
Special Projects
OO-Nike
This year, we plan to launch "Double-O Nike" - this will be a two-stage
2/3 scale Nike-Nike smoke (a complex P impulse) project which is over 20ft
tall and weighs about 300lbs. It will be powered by a CTI O5100/O4900 and
we plan to fly it at BALLS. Me and Jack G started this project and planned
drag races but never got around to it. Now it is Jack G, me, Scott Y, Rod
L, Richard K, Mike Smith, Bruce,, Gary, Aaron and an everyone else who
wants to participate to get this one flying at BALLS this year. We plan to
meet after our next launch at Rod's and then generally we will meet the 4th
weekend of the month (after our launch) in Fresno to build.
We can discuss more at January launch.
LDRS
Aaron, Rod and I are working on LDRS for 2018, we plan to get everything
together this year and when Aaron gets
the final go on the field, we can move forward.
First launch of 2017
First launch will be 01/21/17 (Saturday) - third weekend of the month for
all of 2017 - if you look at the website above
I have all of the launch dates for 2017 listed on the calendar.
Finally, I hope everyone has a great Holiday and a Happy New Year!
Best regards
-James
James F Dougherty
President, Tripoli Central California (Prefecture # 52)
TRA Records Committee Chair
TRA #11425 L3 TAP
jafrado@xxxxxxxxx
408-476-7391 <(408)%20476-7391>
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